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I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving and that you're not having to eat turkey leftovers for the rest of this weekend. I came across this video clip I found funny and wanted to share it with you. It's about 6.5 minutes long but worth watching. If any of you have already seen it, I apologize. I could not find it on iFilm and I don't like giving my password to YouTube, so just click on the link

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Back from my hiatus and determined to publish a new post more often than I have been the past couple of months. So, here goes: As I stopped to plunk down my money to pay for my Starbucks coffee earlier this week, I couldn't help but notice the tip jar and then it hit me...One glaring difference between Starbucks and McDonald's is that many Starbucks have a tip jar on the counter whereas

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My work project has been extended (indefinitely at this point) and family visiting has kept me busy, but I wanted to post something while I have a moment. So, here it is... not much, but part of my ongoing "Momentary Escapes" series. There's just something about waterfalls! This one isLaurel Falls in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.Thanks to Tommy Simms' flickr.

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I wasn't going to post today, but I just experienced one of my pet peeves again and didn't want to let the moment pass.I was at an intersection I frequent and was about the fifth car in line waiting for the left turn arrow to turn green when I noticed that the cars on the opposite side of the intersection got their green left turn light but my side did not. My suspicions were confirmed when I

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Unfortunately, I have a big work project that will keep me extra busy for the next couple of weeks so I probably will only be able to post sporadically during that time. Hopefully, when it's over I'll be feeling like this guy:

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Another in my series of "Manic Monday Momentary Escapes"...This time I wisk you away toCumberland Island, Georgia,where time seems to stand still.The ferry ride to Cumberland Island:Live Oaks with Spanish moss create a wonderfulcanopy on the road leading to the Greyfield Inn:"A grand and graceful mansion...built in 1900 as a home for Lucy and Thomas Carnegie'sdaughter, Margaret Ricketson, the

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About a year or two ago, I started noticing these types of signs popping up in various shopping centers and initially thought "how cute" because at first there seemed to only be one or two spaces located next to a store that sells baby stuff. Now that this trend seems to have grown and more good parking spaces are being designated as "expectant mother parking only" - which as far as I know is

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Who says you can't teach a dog to dance? Here's a lady who's trained her dog to do a 2-minute dance routine with her to the Grease soundtrack. The dog doesn't miss a beat.

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While doing some organizing, I came across this piece that I've had for years. I did not write the following and I don't know who did, but I found it just as touching now as the first time I read it. (photo thanks to Ekin in Finland's flickr)I've learned......that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life. ...that you should always leave loved ones with loving words

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"Back on 9/29/05, while I was deployed todo a bit of restoration work from Katrina, wemade a quick drive through the French Quarter.As you can see, in some regards ... All is Well." - GHzThanks to GHz's flickr.

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Top Ten Reasons Why South FloridiansShould Prepare for Hurricane Season:10. Ignoramus. You know the type. Don't be that type!.9.. An ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure.8.. You may not find what you need after the storm.7.. No A/C + heat/humidity makes a difficult situation worse.6.. Hurricane paths are not always predictable (Charley).5.. Hurricane categories can be

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First in a series of weekly editions... enjoy! "A peaceful pathway follows a gentlyflowing stream to Anna Ruby Falls.(The North Georgia mountains, Georgia)"Thanks to Tommy Simms' flickr.

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This night-time satellite image gives you an idea of how much artificial lighting (light pollution) there is in the US. If you'd like to see all of Earth at night, just click on the photo. A bit of an insomniac at times*, I had some time on my hands tonight. With nothing worthwhile to watch on TV, I took a look outside and wished it was darker out so I could see the stars and fully enjoy the

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Haven't been to the movies in a while? Don't worry, I gotcha covered. Get the popcorn and soda out then sit back, relax and enjoy the show. Oh, and no smoking, please. Here's tonight's featured movie presentation:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::What can I say? I couldn't resist including it here on my

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Ever seen those black and white ducks that seem to be everywhere in South Florida? You know the ones... they have that red crusty-looking thing on their face. Few people seem to know what type of duck this is. I found out a few years ago they're called Muscovy ducks. The ducklings are cute, until they grow up, of course. If you feed them, they'll keep coming around which means they'll also leave

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Sleepless, You're a Scottish Terrier!What Breed of Dog Are You?(Note: It will request an e-mail addressbefore showing the results.)

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I was recently sorting through photos in a storage box and came across this one I took in 1989 at the original Parrot Jungle location (Pinecrest area) which closed in 2002. For those who perhaps don't remember this scene... those are flamingos on the lawn by the Koi pond. What a shame that they moved the attraction to Watson Island which is probably about a third of the original size of the

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Rut-ro... me thinks there must be an increase in accidents happening due to drivers text messaging while driving 'cuz my sitemeter shows a law firm visited my recent post on the topic - using the post title to search Google... where I show up on the first page of search results. I also had someone from Twentieth Century Fox in L.A. checking out my blog for a while today. Maybe a screenwriter is

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I came across this today and thought it would be interesting to see how much of the U.S. I've covered in my travels. West Virginia looks lonely. There are a few I've been wanting to visit but haven't gotten around to yet. Get your own map here. An international map is available, too, but even with as much traveling as I've done, I wasn't up to seeing how much of the world I haven't seen yet.

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This is probably one of the funniest videos I've seen in a while. It's about 5-6 minutes long but worth watching. This guy's "regular" job is actually that of a motivational speaker.

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On today's edition of NBC's South Florida Today show, one of the occasional hosts admitted that she recently rear-ended a car as a result of text messaging a co-worker while driving. I know people do many things they shouldn't while driving, but really... text messaging?!Part of what surprised me while watching her admit to this is the way she ended up treating the incident as if it was a

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Saw them on The Tonight Show. I'm not one that likes most of the hip-hop/rap music out there, but this is one of those exceptions...Fort Minor - Where'd You Go, Featuring Holly BrookHolly Brook's MySpace Page

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Be grateful you were born normal...Nicole would be turning in her grave..."Monster-in-Laws" would be putting it mildly...Just when you thought it was safe to work in Fort Lauderdale...

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I was recently introduced to the HPLC by a friend. If you're the type of person that still enjoys the challenge of learning but whose schedule does not allow you to make regular trips to a school, then these FREE online courses may be for you. Most are 6-week courses and provide two lessons per week but you can log on at any time to catch up before the end of the course. They even provide

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Here's a real character that pops up everywhere! If you haven't heard of Flat Stanley, here's you chance. I came across a link to Flat Stanley's visit to Paris, France and thought it was both funny and amazing the amount of work that some people put into this. See a picture gallery of Flat Stanley's world travels. Among my favorites are Stanley hangin' with the homies in Miami and Flat Stanley

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Some of you who read this post may consider what I'm about to blog about somewhat controversial. It seems I already got myself into a wee bit of trouble earlier today, so maybe this won't help but I guess I'll just roll with the punches.So... by now most of you have probably heard that Brad and Angelina welcomed their much-anticipated new baby girl a couple of days ago. The current "buzz" has to

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Some of you may recall I'd posted a link to a homemade Star Wars saberlight duel a few weeks ago. Well, there's more where that came from. Here is another one, titled "Three in the Afternoon", except this one was "Winner of the 2004 East Texas Film Fest" and includes girls! Yes, I'm feeding the geeks! ;-)

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I went to fill up my gas tank today in part because I heard a report this morning about a 9-month long FTC investigation which found no evidence of widespread gas price-gouging after Hurricane Katrina. With the fuel companies temporarily out of the "dog house" I suspect that prices will start to creep back up again..."Further, the report reiterated the FTC’s position that federal gasoline price

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I just came across a new South Florida blog - Miami Watch - and thought I'd give this fellow blogger a warm welcome to our fast-growing blogosphere. Welcome, Stephen!

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Joyce Ballantyne Brand, the artist of the popular Coppertone ads of decades ago died Monday at age 88. I can recall as a kid when my family would come down to Miami Beach for vacation, knowing that we were in Miami when we'd drive past the HUGE animated billboard on the side of a downtown building off Biscayne Blvd. that had the black puppy pulling down the little girl's swimsuit bottom.

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Ahhh... the power of the Internet! In an era when most people feel disconnected from their community and are already too stressed and stretched for time to take the initiative in doing something pro-active to change things for the better instead of just complaining about it, along comes one of those rare citizens who does care enough to take the time to get things rolling in the right direction.

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Well, well... it looks like billionaire Donald Trump (a.k.a. "The Donald") will have an opportunity to add to his ever-growing property portfolio and finally buy his own mar-a-lago town in one of the ritziest parts of South Florida and perhaps even re-name it... what else? Trump, Florida, of course!Talk about a "rags to riches" story... I just read in the Sun-Sentinel that the 43-acre central

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Build a better blog... try saying that 3 times, fast! After reading Rick's post on blogging personalities, I recalled a recent online test I took that asks "how linkable is your blog post?"... that's linkable, not likeable (though they essentially need the same ingredients). Not having blogged for very long, I'm still learning so I found this linkability test useful even if getting incoming

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Why is it that bakeries will sometimes throw in an extra donut, cookie, bagel (or whatever) when you purchase a dozen of them, but somehow when you're buying land all you get for a "builder's acre" is usually not much more than 3/4 of an acre?Things that make me go hmmm...

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My brother sent me a link to a 5-minute long homemade movie of a Star Wars lightsaber duel. Though I can't say I was ever really into Star Wars, the clip was pretty good and, those of you who are may get a kick out of it. These two kids made this homemade film using Adobe tools for the effects and it's pretty amazing.

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I was forwarded an e-mail that I thought I'd share the contents of...For any of you who have a hankerin' for an ice cream sundae on Sunday, May 7th, Baskin Robbins is having a buy one, get one free day tomorrow.

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The University of Florida's Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center will open their new 3,000 sq. ft. "hurricane house" to the public on May 25th. It's located at 3205 College Avenue in Davie. It was built to come through a category 4 or 5 with little to no damage. This is one of four "hurricane houses" throughout Florida, all funded by the Florida Dept. of Financial Services.Bob Stroh,

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This chocolate chip cookie came from a recent batch and the way this particular one "developed" caught my attention so I decided it was photo-worthy. Now, I've heard some crazy stories about what people put up for sale on eBay (a family for rent; burnt toast with the image of the Virgin Mary; a 7¾" long french fry; a pregnant tummy or forehead available as advertising space) and I'm not going to

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Mother's Day is coming up and that, along with driving around today, made me think of a couple of funny "Mom" stories which I'll share here. The first one happened while flying over the ocean shortly before landing. My mother asked my brother (who was sitting next to her) to look out the window down at the ocean. He did, and then asked her what he should be looking for. "You don't see it?" she

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A friend of mine sent me an e-mail with a link to information about the Katrina Cottage. It offers four different layouts - each with the basics (living room, kitchen area, bedroom & bathroom) - and was designed for people who want to stay in a hurricane-affected area while their house is being rebuilt. For a cottage that can be purchased for under $35,000... I couldn't help but wonder what an

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I actually heard this a couple of months ago on a promo commercial for whatever was going on in a daytime soap opera (I think it was "Days of Our Lives") but it was such an unbelievably stupid quote that it stayed with me. What floored me is that they must've played the same promo for about a week and never thought to edit it, which just goes to show that people may hear things just fine but

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OK, so I'm starting yet another series of posts. This series is titled "Did you know?"This one is especially for cat lovers out there. Some of you may even already be aware of this little quirk but I thought it's worth mentioning. Did you know that if you scratch the area just above the base of a cat's tail, the cat (OK, maybe not ALL cats) will start licking? Sometimes it will lick itself and

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Kudos to Best Buy stores for adopting what I call the "bank line format" for their customers who head to their cashiers. For many years I've thought that just about all businesses should implement this. Who has not gone shopping and dreaded the point at which they must decide which line looks like the one they're most likely to get through the quickest?I've never understood why stores don't

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Years ago, I noticed that manufacturers figured out a way to increase their profits without losing customers (at least not enough to make them stop this practice, anyway). They simply reduce the amount of product without increasing the product's price. Typically, the decrease in the amount of product is not noticeable to most people and oftentimes the manufacturer also changes the product

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Have you ever noticed that in office buildings and stores, aside from handicapped spaces, the best parking spots are reserved for visitors and customers whereas at home the best parking spots are taken by its occupants?Apparently, we as a society pay more respect to/give more importance to paying customers/clients than we do to friends and family. Just one of those things that makes me go hmmm...

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Mid-life crisis or ego-trip... you choose.

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This will be the first in a series of posts titled "Is it just me?"Is it just me... or does the following pet peeve annoy others as well?Scenario: You've just handed the cashier a crisp, clean, new $20 bill and he/she proceeds to give you your change back which is made up of the oldest, most crumpled up, ripped, disgusting looking bills.Commentary: Here's the problem as I see it. The more of

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Taking off on a new journey by blogging...Sleepless in South Florida

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