I get bored easily.
I start out with great excitement and drive to tackle a new challenge or project, and dive in head-first. But if I can’t finish it within a day or so, 3/4’s of the way through, I find I start to lose interest. In that case, I’ll:

wrap it up with less [...]

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Today is Gary’s birthday. His 50th birthday. And to say he’s not pleased that he’s turning 50 is an understatement. In his eyes, Gary views it as being old. I disagree. In my eyes, I view it as having lived life - full of adventures and stories to share.
“And [...]

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Periodically, I do a web search to see who’s splogging or scraping my site. Instead of seeing any of that activity, I was pleasantly surprised and very much excited when I clicked on blogged.com to see Cold Coffee was ranked in the top 20 (#20) out of 6,500+ entries for personal blogs - with [...]

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One of the cool gifts Nick received this year was a calendar from a colleague of mine (thanks JT), whose daughter had been involved in a very special project: Rights. Respect. Responsibility.® Condom Campaign. sponsored by Advocates for Youth.org.
No, those aren’t smiley faces you’re seeing in the picture below. It’s creative use of condoms [...]

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