December 2011

Happy Holidays! Are you offended yet?

December 23, 2011

Happy Holidays! Are you offended yet? Here’s my annual letter to update everyone on the status of things. It’s my “holiday letter” not a Christmas letter, so I’m not going to say Merry Christmas. Ooops. Okay, if you celebrate Christmas, I hope it’s “merry.” Really? Merry? is that the best Hallmark could come up with? [...]

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More on the Ripple Effect AKA Butterfly Effect

December 18, 2011

If you’ve seen the movie “The Butterfly Effect” with Ashton Kutcher (formerly known as Mr. Demi Moore) you may have some idea of what the ripple effect is about. I thought the movie was interesting. It demonstrated that everything you do has impact on other things that happen in the world and maybe beyond.. And [...]

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Holy City Brewing

December 15, 2011

Last night we decided to get out of the house and go visit Holy City Brewing. Fun trip. Holy City is a local micro-brewery, and when I say micro-brewery I mean it. This is basically a part time four man operation in North Charleston. They started the business this year after experimenting with some home [...]

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Strong winter storm dumps heavy sunshine in Charleston, SC

December 14, 2011

CHARLESTON, SC. (BNS) – A strong winter storm dumped more than ten hours of sunshine in some parts of Charleston today. It is expected to leave the area sometime around dusk this evening, but making a return early in the morning. The National Weather Service says James Island was hit hard with temperatures occasionally reaching [...]

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Video Streaming Service – HuluPlus Review – Free Television Episodes

December 11, 2011

We are a couple weeks into the ROKU era, and still really enjoying it. The video streaming service from Netflix is the bomb. Totally engaged with watching episodes of Breaking Bad… so much so that we are staying up way too late at night because it’s pulled us in. No commercials is the clincher. It [...]

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Men writing advice columns

December 10, 2011

Whether you want to believe it or not, sometimes men have insight on problems that women have. I’ve heard women sometimes just want a sympathetic ear when airing problems, while men are asking for solutions. Who knows if that is true? Not me.. in the meantime.. here’s yet another website that is featuring some of [...]

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Fundraising and Chick Fil A

December 1, 2011

I’m on a rant. A few years ago a friend of mine told me that his band was playing a charity gig and he wanted to let me know, so I could attend. It coincided with a carnival which had rides, games of chance, etc, etc… The problem was that the charity was for something [...]

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