ginny on August 31st, 2008

Wow, lots to catch up on. Too much to blog via iPhone, so may fire up the frankenmachine and sit properly at a desk for the first time in weeks.
Church this morning was pretty good – outdoors again. Next week we go back to two services, and this year there will be much more [...]

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ginny on August 31st, 2008

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Via: Flickr Title: Summer service By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 31 Aug ‘08, 11.40am CDT PST
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ginny on August 29th, 2008

All packed, trip over, didn’t take enough pictures or get back to Grafton Street or Temple Bar because we ran out of steam the last two days.
But we had an amazing time and we’ll surely return. Economy and exchange rate be damned. We’ll return.
More later, as I have to get to sleep.

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ginny on August 29th, 2008

Daily Herald | Hoffman Estates starts stocking up on salt tonight
Breaking news: Chicago-area residents should expect a “very cold period” after Thanksgiving.
That’s according to the winter weather projections in the 2009 edition of the “The Old Farmer’s Almanac,” in stores in next month.
Yep, my village is debating the cost of road salt, in August, because [...]

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ginny on August 29th, 2008

Yes they can: Chicagoans get entry to speech at last minute — chicagotribune.com
DENVER – The group of Chicago people who took a bus to the Democratic National Convention without credentials will get to see Sen. Barack Obama accept the nomination for president after all.
They will be the ones in the white T-shirts showing people to [...]

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ginny on August 28th, 2008

So was Best Western’s system hacked – and if so how? | Technology | guardian.co.uk
We’re currently staying in a BW chain hotel in Dublin, and we certainly hope we’re okay – that is, David is able to keep an eye on accounts from here (never you mind how). But this news of a German Best [...]

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ginny on August 28th, 2008

Daily Herald | Duckworth blasts McCain over military policy
The former congressional candidate painted McCain as weak on veteran issues, despite his service as a Vietnam War veteran and POW. Duckworth touted Obama’s efforts at boosting GI health care and benefits. Duckworth now is head of the state’s veteran’s affairs department. She recently has been mentioned [...]

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Actors paid to line up for iPhone launch | Oddly Enough | Reuters
That it has come to this: iPhone isn’t sexy enough for the Poles, who probably don’t like their one and only provider’s plan any better than the Brits like theirs.

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ginny on August 26th, 2008

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Via: Flickr Title: Railway sproggen By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 26 Aug ‘08, 12.51pm CDT PST
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ginny on August 25th, 2008

Only Connect: Holding together but going nowhere

From our viewpoint the bishops talked in secret little groups in their ‘big top’ surrounded by a ring of police and only emerged once to go to London to tell society how wicked it was not to do more about the debt. Many of us had worked in or [...]

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