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One of the things that was left undone when the house I'm now living in was finished was the clean-up. My porch has been covered with PVC pipe and fittings, bags of concrete, boards of varying lengths and widths, and loads of miscellaneous stuff (not a small amount of which was garbage) since the house was completed. It didn't bother me much this ( Read more... )

And because I have nothing better to do (except go to bed, which I need to do), behind the cut are more pics from today's trip.

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Back in October I posted about my family's biannual trip to Noland's Creek, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, for decoration at two of the cemeteries we have relatives buried in. Today was the spring trip, which was much more pleasant than the October trip.

I'm cutting for a ( pic dump. )

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I started to write a post earlier about a particular pet peeve in fanfic (ficcers giving the characters the ficcers' personal likes and dislikes, such as tv shows and bands, particularly when such are obscure and unlikely to actually be known of, much less liked by, the characters, much less both of the two main characters of the show being written ( Read more... )

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I heard spring peepers today as I was walking from my parents' to my house.

They're not supposed to be out yet!

1. One of the problems with coming back to the small town in which I was raised to practice law is that I know and am related to far too many people in this town. Another attorney attempted to refer a client to me the other day, but when I saw the name on the card he passed me, I realized (out loud), "Hey, I think this is my cousin!" I'm also ( Read more... )

While the Obama administration has stated that it does not support a plan to charge drivers a per-mile-driven tax, Congress is still looking at this as a viable option ( Read more... )