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Category: Soap Box

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Stop and check out the street musicians

Posted on March 28, 2008September 2, 2018 by Sandra

You never know who it might be!

Joshua Bell did a “stunt” with the Washington Post recently where he played in a Metro stop at rush hour. Check out the video:

Unbelievable! I think people get

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Learning to throw stuff away

Posted on January 30, 2008September 2, 2018 by Chris

I was thinking about this today and I thought I\’d let everyone know that I learned something funny from my Dad, although it did take me a few years to get it right.

Recently we decided to clean out

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Are we a small world after all?

Posted on January 3, 2008September 2, 2018 by Sandra

Did you hear about Disneyland closing the Small World ride? They are going to revamp it starting this month. Apparently we are not so small – and we are growing bigger each year. So much that the ride

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When music videos were good: November Rain

Posted on January 2, 2008September 2, 2018 by Sandra

I heard November Rain by Guns N\’ Roses in the car today and I was thinking about how much I loved the video when it came out back in 1992. Stephanie Seymour was so gorgeous and she rocked that Carmela

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How History is Repeated

Posted on December 15, 2007September 2, 2018 by Chris

I picked up an old book of Sandra\’s the other day, it was written in 1964 and it is about how to run a successful photo studio. For those of you that don\’t know we\’ve been going to Las Vegas for the

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Is the phone company just lazy?

Posted on December 1, 2007September 2, 2018 by Chris

Have you ever dialed a phone number just to get a few rings and the computer telling you that you do not need to dial the area code for the number? Or that you don\’t need to dial \’1\’ before the number?

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Death of the English Language

Posted on November 26, 2007September 2, 2018 by Chris

So what\’s happening to the English Language? I just watched a Nissan commercial where the announcer pronounced Rouge as “Rog”, much like Dog with an “R”. Did we somehow forget what we were taught by our

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Helicopter Parents

Posted on November 15, 2007September 2, 2018 by Sandra

I was reading my UF Today magazine and there was an interesting article about the parents of the millennial generation and how they have the nickname of “helicopter parents” since they tend to hover over

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Jury Duty Again!

Posted on November 5, 2007September 2, 2018 by Chris

Yes I had Jury Duty last year and here it is 17 months later and I have to go again. I have only known two people that have had jury duty up until last year and now everyone I know has been called once

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Upgrade Goof

Posted on October 17, 2007September 2, 2018 by Chris

Sorry, but because I tried to upgrade the blog software today, you don\’t get to hear about the rest of our trip until tomorrow. In fact I\’m still trying to get the blog back to how it was before I started

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Do you like surprises?

Posted on October 7, 2007September 2, 2018 by Sandra

I don\’t. This year I have seen so many surprises and there are still more to come. The one surprise was a birthday party (the most common it seems). The birthday girl arrived and everyone had been

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Why the internet is a great place for scammers

Posted on September 27, 2007September 2, 2018 by Chris

About a year ago we had a login on Sandra\’s site for clients to see their photos that required a username and a password. We kept track of the logins so we could see if people were trying to spell things

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Windows XP print job stuck

Posted on September 7, 2007September 2, 2018 by Chris

Ok, because I know most of you are using Windows and have probably have had a print get stuck in your print queue I wanted to share this quick fix that I found online. (Actually, I also wanted to save

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crickets?

Posted on August 9, 2007September 2, 2018 by Sandra

Where are you Brownie? I thought this was OUR big adventure – hahaha!

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Hello?

Posted on July 27, 2007September 2, 2018 by Sandra

I was just curious if anyone read our blog. Can you comment? You can be anonymous. Only we will see your email, not the other blog readers.

I need some confidence!

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Running on Empty

Posted on July 12, 2007September 2, 2018 by Sandra

So everyone has pet peeves. Mine just seems to bother only me! I hate being low on supplies. Paper plates, water, gas, toothpaste, etc. When I get down to a quarter of any given item, I must go buy

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ICE! On the History Channel

Posted on June 26, 2007September 2, 2018 by Chris

You know I\’m a big fan of the History Channel, and it\’s mainly because they make history interesting. Tonight they did a show on Ice and to my disappointment they completely skipped over John Gorrie

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Gas Prices!

Posted on June 10, 2007September 2, 2018 by Chris

I think I have finally heard enough about how high our gas prices are. You have no idea how much of a deal gas is at $3.10 per gallon.

This past weekend we were in the Bahamas for a wedding and we decided

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Weddings are stressful!

Posted on May 29, 2007September 2, 2018 by Sandra

We don\’t get invited to weddings very often – we usually work them. But from time to time, we do go to a wedding as a guest. We actually have three all coming up that I am looking forward to attending.

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Sears washer didn’t last

Posted on May 5, 2007September 2, 2018 by Sandra

In December 2004, we bought a new washer and dryer from Sears. They are the front loaders – and they had great reviews. In January 2006, just barely a year old, the washer started having these F11 errors.

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