This is Super Bowl week and there has been some frigid weather here in Frisco, Texas. (Suburb of Dallas.) That is also true for a large swath through the center of the USA. The problem here though is we are not well prepared for solid ice road coverings. We have roads like very high in the sky bridge overpasses. They are ice magnets. The “big game” players were bused to the stadium with a convoy...
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Jury Duty
Every three years I get a notice. It seems to be automatic. I must be an easy target. I have only served (been picked) on two cases. I just missed getting picked yesterday. It was to be a civil case, my first one if I had been selected. The others were criminal cases. I showed up at the Collin County, TX court house 45 minutes early at 7:45 AM. That’s not an early hour for...
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I have been doing some writing here in Ramblin’ Dan but haven’t been sharing many pictures. I guess it is easier to write than take the photos. The fact is writing about things like computer file servers isn’t very photogenic. The beauty is how it works, not how it looks. I am adding a replacement for my old HP Scanjet IIc color scanner. I bought the Scanjet about 18 years ago. It still works just...
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I have had my 2.5 year old granddaughter here for a few days while her momma recovers from some surgery on her shoulder. It’s rather difficult for momma to be tracking after her two year old when one has a bum wing. This has induced me to watch more kid TV programming than I care to but any amount of torture is bearable for my granddaughter’s sake. I have become a bit enlightened how our...
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