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My thoughts released; a mind set free |
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These pages contain my thoughts, from meandering ideas and persuasions to deep cerebrations and serious mentations. Why, for what purpose? To release my mind and set creativity free. Somewhere inside the constraints of my mind dwells a writer, a poet, an artist who paints with words. In here I release those constraints and set the artist free. Perhaps, lost somewhere in the depths of thought, is a story or a poem, waiting to be written. 
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| Once again, Murphy has struck. I'm speaking of Murphy's Law, of course; if you're not familiar, do a quick search, there are a lot of them. What wraps them up the best is, "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong" . Such it was today. First of all, I slept well last night, but woke before eight. Now, I don't mind getting up somewhat early, and normally eight wouldn't be bad. But, my wife works swing shift and gets home a little after eleven, so we don't often get to bed before midnight; it's usually closer to one or slightly after. Last night, however, we stayed up until after three this morning, so waking before eight was not optimal. The forecast for the day was warmer, about ten degrees below the freezing point, which was good. Well for January in Minnesota, it's good. But, we were also to have sunshine, lots and lots of sunshine. I never saw it today, but what I did see was snow. Not a lot, a couple of inches at most. Yesterday, with the forecast for warmer and sunshine, I took it upon myself to shovel the sidewalks and put a bit of salt down. It's been too cold to do much outside, and too cold for the salt to do any good. But, like the saying goes, "wash your car, it will rain", so Murphy's Law states, "shovel snow, you'll get more". Also, ""Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong", like the shovel falling off the handle half way through the project. In the process of fixing that, the light in the garage burned out. I do have more bulbs on hand, LED bulbs, but after putting it in the garage, it only glowed. I've had this issue before with LED and florescent bulbs, not all of them will work in cold. I ended up using the bulb from the back yard light in the garage. Not to worry, though, I do have a 1000-Watt Halogen twin head work light that puts out about 16,000 Lumen. I put it on the porch to use for a yard light and it works great; I can almost see across the lake. I would be able to if there weren't houses in the way! |
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