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Monday, November 19th, 2007

So it’s November, I guess. I was raking some leaves today, a typical fall activity. However I’ve never done it while sweating with my shirt off. I think I actually brought some life back to my summer farming tan in only a couple hours under today’s insanely hot sun. Melissa and I came home after noontime and walked into some kind of sauna. The apartment thermo read 85°, but I think it was at least ten degrees hotter in the bedrooms.

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It was quite a shock to our dracaena Mr. D as well. We were all very thirsty.

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Somebody said that it’s going to snow this week? Wtf! I didn’t believe them, until I asked my dashboard.

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Oh hell. That’s my weather report.

I imagine one day…..50 years from now (if were lucky) I’ll kid around with my, or somebody’s, grandkids about the days when we all joked about global warming being a good thing, as we breathe from our local communities oxygen taps on our allotted day of the week.

The future

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

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I can’t wait until downtown Lincoln looks like this. It finally feels like all these changes are going to happen that people have been talking about for years. It certainly sounds like it at 7am. All I care about is the alleged grocery store that may be in the Civic Square building. I suppose the arena could be cool too. I remember when Starbucks first opened. It seemed so out of place. Today that’s not so true. I always thought of Downtown Lincoln, as place only locals could get to, patrons and venders alike. Somehow the franchise has caught up it seems, it was bound to happen sooner or later.

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10th and O

Friday, November 2nd, 2007
After a long search involving many persistent phone calls, we finally located a place to live downtown. Our apartment sits on the 6th floor of the historic Lincoln Building at 10th and O streets. We’ve ... [Continue reading this entry]