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Bigfoot Snow Removal Service!
We got about 9 inches of snow over the weekend and we’re set to get a few more inches today. People have to work pretty hard to get the snow off their sidewalks because Iowa City has some pretty strict rules about it. If you don’t get that snow removed from your sidewalk “down to…
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Snowstorm Barreling Toward Iowa!
We’re going to get about a foot of snow starting tonight according to the weather report. There are webcams about Iowa that will document the storm, which will occur across most of the state. We’ve charged up the batteries in the Voltask electric snow shovel, which got quite a workout last winter. We took videos…
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Breaking News: Hands-Free Driving Law in Iowa!
Sena saw a news headline about the new hands-free driving law in Iowa that’s going to be enforced in 2026 (passed in July of this year). Guilty drivers are going to get socked with a $100 fine if they’re caught messing with their cell phones with their hands off the wheel because they might think…
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Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome in the News
I just saw a news item today that is interesting for two reasons, at least to me. It’s about people who have Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome. The physician interviewed for comments about it is Dr. Chris Buresh who used to be an emergency department physician at the University of Iowa. He’s now at the University of…
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Pennies from Heaven to Coin Rolls
We recently found out that pennies are being take out of circulation. In fact, the last day they stopped minting them was on our 48th wedding Anniversary this month, November 12, 2025! There may be a reason to save the 2025 pennies, according to some folks. We have a piggy bank and I rolled up…
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This is World Kindness Day 2025!
Sena saw something on the web about World Kindness Day this morning and alerted me to it right away. World Kindness Day is an international movement which started in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement. It’s observed on November 13th annually. This made me look through my blog posts and I found a short announcement…
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More Calvinball Cribbage Games
This just in; we found a Crib Wars game on Amazon for only $20! I’ll have a lot more to say about Crib Wars/Cribbage Wars tomorrow. We’ve been thinking about taking this game out for a spin for a while. Sena also ordered something called Wicked Cribbage. I don’t know anything about it except it’s…
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When Tariffs and Cribbage Boards Collide
I’m going to take a chance and mention tariffs in this post because it figures importantly in our cribbage game pastime. We have several cribbage boards we’ve bought over the years and one of them is from Ontario, Canada. Michaud Toys is a company in Ontario which makes very nice wooden toys, many of them…
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When it Comes to AI, What Are We Really Talking About?
I’ve been reading about artificial intelligence (AI) in general and its healthcare applications. I tried searching the web in general about it and got the message: “An AI Overview is not available for this search.” I’m ambivalent about that message. There are a couple of web articles, one of which I read twice in its…
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Protecting the Universe from the Scum of the Earth
The title of this post might sound familiar to those who have seen the movie Men in Black way too many times, like me. There’s a trailer poster from the 1997 MIB movie showing Agents J and K holding huge space guns and the title is “Protecting the Earth from the Scum of the Universe.”…
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