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Jan.11.2012
Boy, that work computer - and Microsoft. I'll tell you what.
In the process of gathering information and compiling and analyzing throughout the last several days. Doing so, I have a number of spreadsheets open, along with 'Team Rooms', where documents are stored and people comment on them, and...
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Jan.11.2012
Walt, my neighbor across the street, is somewhere in his 80s, a Korean war vet, former high school principal, football coach, a farmer and master gardener, a business owner and a sales man. He's from Missouri and loves history and reading. He reads everything.
Walt is a big football fan...
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Jan.10.2012
Who was the first person to make a baseball cap?
What company first advertised on a tee shirt? What year did that happen?
Think of all the first times things were eaten, like cheese and butter, and the first time someone came up with sausage, bologna, Spam, and Chicken McNuggets. ...
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Jan.10.2012
The new team is coming together. Strategy meetings have been ongoing. The master manager has been coordinating with his direct reports, who have been coordinating with their direct reports, one of which called me today to set up the next phase. The next phase is an online meet and greet to share...
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Jan.10.2012
I have to share it with someone. It's not big nor salacious, such a petty thing, really.
Ashland, January 1st. Took the recycles in, the ones for which you get refunds. We've been collecting them and organizing them since we moved to Ashland. Now it was time to get rid of them.
Went down to Shop 'n...
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Jan.10.2012
I don't understand why I like cars. I liked them before I ever drove, and don't recall anyone encouraging my enthusiasm. I was just drawn to them - the Jaguar XK-E, the Porsche 911, the Corvette Sting Ray.
Muscle cars came along during that initial flirtation, in the 60s. They drew me, moth...
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Jan.09.2012
While writing in Scrivener today, I struck the Control key and the Note key by accident.
A small scratchpad window opened. The window had features to attach the note to a Scrivener project, and you could drill down and choose exactly where to append it.
I find that very convenient. When...
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Jan.09.2012
He's dead, Jim.
So my gmail greeted me a short time again. I chuckled at the reference, hit the refresh and there it was.
But I wonder - does everyone recognize, "He's dead, Jim," from Bones McCoy addressing Captain William T. Kirk of the Enterprise? Or am I wrong? Is the phrase from another...
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Jan.09.2012
I almost forgot another person in me is Forgetful Guy, but it's his own fault.
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Jan.09.2012
I have so many personalities in me, and they're so hard to deal with each of them and their crossing swords. I've managed to herd the Son, Brother, Employee, Activist, Analyst, Writer, Reader, Football Fan, Auto Racing Fan, Prudent Spender and Editor into a corrall and train them so they respond...
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Jan.09.2012
We belong to a Home Owner's Association (HOA), which we didn't want but we liked the house, its price, and location, and the HOA fees were minimal. So we said, okay, let's buy.
The HOA is also minimal, 12 houses, each with about a quarter acre. All the houses are on one street, except our...
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Jan.08.2012
Congratulations to Denver for progressing to the next play-off rounds.
Unfortunately, this game also went as I thought it would. Big Ben was too hobbled. Going weeks back, I admire Tomlin' aggressiveness but said then and say now, he should have rested his injured quarterback.
Denver imposed its...
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Jan.08.2012
I'm watching the Giants & Falcons play. The Giants just scored on a 72 yard catch and run, Manning to Nicks. What impressed me was the Falcon defensive end, Kroy Biermann. 6' 3", 255 pounds, ran flat out to the end trying to catch the 6' 1", 208 pound wide received, Nicks. Nicks runs a 4.49 40...
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Jan.08.2012
Watched both the NFC & AFC playoff games on Saturday and came away with my own impressions. Haven't read what others said.
1. The results were what I expected.
2. Detroit showed terrible defensive discipline. They weren't tackling. On more than one play, I saw the defender wrap up...
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Jan.07.2012
I enjoy walking - cities, towns, villages, woods, fields, I don't care. I might feel different, no, would probably feel different if I was forced to walk to get food or water, or to find work, or if my life was miserable.
But my life isn't miserable, and hasn't been. Living down on the California...
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Writing is exploring myself and discovering the stories and characters that managed to burrow into me. It's a trek, a space shot, an endurance race, a transcendental existence and a dark, worrying tunnel.”
About Michael
1956 - I was born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Some other things happened that year, too. Moved around the country as a military brat before finding anchor in Pittsburgh, PA. Lived there 8 years, moved to southern West Virigina, graduated high school and...
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Causes Michael Seidel Supports
Kiva, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Propublica.org, Doctors Without Borders, GreaterGood.com
Michael’s Favorite Books
Catch 22, Catcher In The Rye, Ender's Game, Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Lonesome Dove, Children of Men, The Handmaid's Tale, The Left of Darkness, The Cancer Ward...
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