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Top of the Line Appliances for Your Pipe Dream Home!
It’s that time of the year again; everybody’s moving whether relocating across the country or just moving across town. One thing is key: you need quality, top of the line appliances. Say you’re having family and friends over for dinner and you need freezer space for roadkill squirrel. Why, a General Electric fridge with the…
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Thoughts On Laptop Computers
We bought a laptop computer. It has been years since I’ve used one. I forgot how exasperating a touchpad is. Luckily, we have a spare wireless mouse and a USB port. The laptop is slim and very light, like most laptops these days. I remember the first “laptop” I had early in my career as…
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The Mumbo Jumbo on Some Big Antique Cribbage Boards
Today, I’m going on a tangent about big, mostly antique cribbage boards which were specially made for making the scoring more complex. The main perpetrator (I mean manufacturer), was Drueke (variously pronounced as Drooky, Drew, Drooka). The Drueke name turns up on most of the big two, three and four track vintage cribbage boards you…
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Thoughts on Down Time Activities for Land Survey Technicians
I was just thinking about the old-time land survey crews. When I was getting on the job training as a survey technician, the typical land survey crews were at least 2-3 persons. One rodman, one instrument man, and a crew chief who organized the job, which could be property or construction jobs. Nowadays, you get…
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Memorial Day Events 2024 in Iowa City, Iowa
The Memorial Day ceremonies in Iowa City, Iowa this year will be on May 27, 2024. At 8:30 a.m. there will be a ceremony at Park Road Bridge. Then at 9:30 a.m., the second part will be at Oakland Cemetery. At 11:00 a.m. the third part will be at Memory Gardens.
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Reminiscence of My Younger Days
The other day we had some stormy weather roll across central Iowa, although it was not as bad as the tornado that swept through Greenfield. We hope the best for them. We didn’t actually get a tornado, but I remember wondering why the siren went off about 6:00 a.m. It woke me up and I…
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Memorial Day 2024 Events in Clear Lake, Iowa!
There will be Memorial Day events in Clear Lake, Iowa starting at 9:30 a.m. on May 27, 2024.
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Big Mo Pod Show Theme: Subverting Expectations
I want to give a shout out to the Big Mo Pod Show Subverting Expectations that aired on May 11, 2024 following the Friday Big Mo Blues Show on May 10, 2024. What impressed me most and puzzled me a lot was the tune that Big Mo didn’t talk about on the podcast. The tune…
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Jim Has a 27-Year-Old Shirt!
I have a 27-year-old shirt. It’s denim with a plaid pattern on the front. I wore it when we went on vacation to Hawaii in 1997. In the featured image, I’m wearing it as Sena and I pose for a photo after we got off the plane. We and a lot of other vacationers were…
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The Big Mo Pod Show on KCCK
There is a new show on the KCCK radio station at FM 88.3 broadcast out of Cedar Rapids, Iowa (106.9 in Iowa City). It’s called the Big Mo Pod Show, which is keyed to his previous Friday night Big Mo Blues Show which starts at 6:00 PM. The show generally quizzes the DJ, Big Mo…
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