Archive for September, 2008
The Path to Socialism
All over the news lately we have heard about the crisis in the financial market and the need for government to act. There has been a massive amount of fear generated about the possibility of a global depression should some of these massive financial institutions fail. Fortunately, our government is on the job. Recently, there [...]
Posted: September 23rd, 2008 under Economy.
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Take a Hike, Ike
Well, our power came back on tonight, and with the tree removal service coming in tomorrow it looks like we’ll be out of this mess. This has definitely been an educational experience. We’ve experienced what it is like to be in a hurricane, grown closer to our neighbors, and have a few more stories to [...]
Posted: September 17th, 2008 under Personal.
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Update on the Aftermath
Well, things are going well here. We’re still out of power, but I’m expecting it to come back up within the next 24 hours, as they have it across one of the major streets and ours is next in a logical projection I created in my imagination. We’ll see how that works out.
Fortunately, after the [...]
Posted: September 16th, 2008 under Personal.
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Ike Recovery
Just to give some of you who are looking at this website some information about how things are going with us, I’m not sure what they are showing on the national news. We have the local news streaming to us over the internet. Ironically, our cable is out but the internet is still working! Anyway, [...]
Posted: September 14th, 2008 under Personal.
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Hurricane Ike
EDIT: Pictures
EDIT: More Pictures 6:45 PM 9/13/08
Well, if you’ve been paying attention to the news, Hurricane Ike came through the Houston area this weekend. I have lived here for some years, and I’ve never had a storm this bad. Of course, the only other hurricane we’ve been through was Rita, but we didn’t have any [...]
Posted: September 13th, 2008 under Personal.
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