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A Good Year

Like most people, I'm busy celebrating with the better half and quite definitely "nicely relaxed." this year, I am "nicely relaxed" (ie obliterated… so please excuse the typos) on a steady stream of Mooing Irish Pepsis (Bailey's, coke and milk) and rum and cokes...

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Money-saving gifts for the crafty sort: be awesome & save cash.

Money sucks right now for a lot of us. Everywhere I look there’s someone lamenting over what they can get for people for Christmas, without relying on something from the dollar store. How can you give a gift that really says, “hey, I fucking love you!,” without breaking your bank and your relationship with the [...]

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I didn’t remember his name.

All I can leave for the men who died for me, is a sprawling, messy Thank you.

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Good Bye, and Thank you Sir.

I wasn't always a geek. I didn't know about Lord of the Rings, I wasn't familiar with Star Wars, I didn't like C.S. Friedman and way back in high school I would have never dreamed about reading Lord of the Rings. All that changed one day in a single moment inside a middle-of-no-where high school library in a single blink of an eye.

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Don’t give Crazy Loud Ladies Energy Drinks & Other handy Bus Lessons

On April 15th, 2009 I began my four day journey on a GRAYHOUND BUS from Florida, US, to Alberta, Canada. Here are the memories and scars from day 2 of that journey. Please shield the eyes of children and batten down the hatches before reading!

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That’s the Burger King Flavor!

Ever wonder what it would be like if you travelled across one entire country to another...on a bus? Wonder no more! Let me, Mel, open up your senses to the sweet smell of bus bathrooms and stinkey cheese feet as I regale you with tales of my travels on a bus from Florida, U.S.A, to Alberta, Canada.

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