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Taking a Stroll Down Memory Lane
WordPress is sending me messages about a number of things lately. I’ve gotten a couple of reminders in the past couple of days of posts I’ve published on specific dates in previous years corresponding to current dates this year. The WordPress message is: Cracking open the content time capsule: Revisit your posts from such and…
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The Ongoing Miracle Whip Saga!
Would you like to know what my all-time most read blog post is? It’s “Whatever Happened to Miracle Whip?” And it’s the one which has the most comments. Go figure. This morning I was going to send a product inquiry to Kraft Heinz, which makes Miracle Whip. But I can’t do it without entering a…
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Cow Week on KOKZ 105.7 Radio Iowa?
Sena told me that one of the DJs at Iowa radio station KOKZ 105.7 is going on a field trip somewhere to milk cows and who knows, maybe he’ll tip one or two. Hey, that’s up to 25% now, bud. There is a very long Wikipedia article on cow tipping, by the way if you’re…
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Memorial Day Connections
I was never in the military, but I tried once ages ago. I guess I’m lucky it didn’t work out. Memorial Day always makes me thing about my father, John Amos. Once upon a time, I would have said our relationship was either non-existent or difficult. But I’m not going to dwell too much on…
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Svengoolie Show Movie: Dr. Cyclops
Svengoolie Intro: “Calling all stations! Clear the air lanes! Clear all air lanes for the big broadcast!” Here’s my deal; I fell asleep last night while watching another TV show on a different channel, “The UnXplained” hosted by William Shatner (Shat’s in the house and he’s 95 years old!) before the movie Dr. Cyclops came…
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Editing My 16-Year-Old Blog Post
There’s a couple of reasons for this odd post. There are two reasons for writing it. One is a belated respect for copyright law and the other is a selfish one-my eye is on the WordPress prize for editing a post more than 6 years old. The latter will no doubt be disqualified because the…
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Juggle Double Take!
I just noticed something this morning about my Fitness Test exercise video I made yesterday. In the juggle warm-up segment, if you just play it at normal speed it looks like one of the balls smacks my face. It’s when I do the second behind the back throw trick around 34 seconds in. I ran…
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Dr. Jim Fitness Test
I thought I would share my personal fitness test. I’m pretty regular, especially in the last couple of months since I found out I gained 20 pounds after I retired from my job as consulting psychiatrist to University of Iowa Health Care. Sena and I both exercise and we’re being careful about our diet (kale…
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May is Mental Health Month: Topic Today is Advocacy
Today’s topic for May Mental Health Month is advocacy. This could be about sharing a resource. I thought it might be OK to mention an Iowa resource for mental health, Your Life Iowa. It can be overwhelming to decide whether or not you’re ready to accept help for mental health challenges. First, you have to…
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WordPress Happiness Engineer Makes My Day!
It was beginning to look like I was probably not going to get human assistance with managing my new blog theme, but the WordPress Happiness Engineer saved the day! By the way, after I switched, I couldn’t find my old classic theme listed anywhere. So, even if I wanted to flip back to it, I…
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