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There is a Crawl for Cancer coming up in St. Louis on June 20th, 2009. If you don’t know what Crawl for Cancer is, it is an event to raise money to find a cure for cancer. You get a group of 10 people together and you drink 4 pitchers of beer at [...]

I guess I should say something about the inauguration. The thing is, I do not have much to say on the topic. I’m speechless. It’s almost like a dream. Whether or not you voted for him or agree with his policies, it was a momentous occasion. The country is forever [...]

Starting sometime last week, around Monday or Tuesday, I started feeling a fluttering in my chest. The feeling was the feeling you get when you are extremely nervous or when you have a lot of anxiety. I didn’t think anything of this at first because who hasn’t felt that feeling every once in [...]

I’ve not posted anything in a while. I just haven’t had much to write about and when I have had a topic I’d begin to write but half way through I’d stop not knowing how to end the post. Part of the reason for the block has to be having a busy weekend. [...]

Inspired by my friend Trix, I decided to let you, my loyal reader(s) in on some pieces of me that you might not know.
I collect the board game Monopoly.  I’ve done this for several years.  I have only purchased 1 of the 20+ versions of the board game I have.  I didn’t intend to start [...]

US Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)
Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)
Disabled American Veterans
Honoring our Veterans (White House)

With the advancements in webmail, I’ve never seen the need for desktop mail clients. I mean, I understand the need for Outlook, or a similar mail client, for work email where you’re constantly sending and receiving email and integrating it with calendars and tasks, but for personal email for accounts at Gmail, Yahoo, and [...]

I’ve had this pain in my left shoulder and going up neck for the past couple days. Last night I decided to put some Icy-Hot on it. I love how much it soothes the muscle but I hate the smell of it. Why? Because it has a wintergreen smell. It [...]

For those with personal blogs out there, who do you write for? Is there someone you gear your blog towards? Who is your audience?
In my case, I have a wide audience. I mostly write on personal matters and thoughts so the majority of my readers are people I know, either in real [...]

This week I joined the St. Louis Bloggers Guild. I know a couple other people that were part of it and I figured it would be a good way to meet fellow St. Louis bloggers. I’m interested to see what kind of things they do, what the meetings are like, and what kind [...]