Author: Herb
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Food Origins
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Beef, Pork, Etc. Sarah Kay was studying the origins of foods in kindergarten. One day, she and her mother were walking through the grocery store discussing what ingredients went into various products. Sarah Kay said, “Pork comes from pigs and beef comes from cows.” Then she asked, “How DO they…
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Interrobang‽‽
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 21839: Ah, that much maligned, hated on, non-punctuation mark, the combined exclamation point and question mark, the interrobang. One of my favorite marks of punctuation, it is not accepted as standard. “What?!” You may exclaim wonderingly, but, much to your dismay and chagrin, there is not a punctuation…
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Another Answer To “Which Critter”‽‽‽
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I received an email and a comment from Brothers Campfire regarding the test he took about which mythical creature he was. He was a dragon. So, today, I decided to take the same quiz. “This will be interesting,” thought I, “I wonder if I will be a Sasquatch or an…
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Which Critter‽‽‽
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Everyone knows that I really like bears. Especially now since they can’t make a huge mess out of my trash. I have a collection of bear stuff. Not like my Coca-Cola collection, of course, but I do own some bearaphenalia. This is why I was shocked the other day. I…
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Back In The Saddle
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For some reason, anything hosted under my account, herbthiel.com, was blocked by Xfinity. I’d spent 3 hours with Godaddy figuring out it was my ISP then 3 more hours with Comcast/Xfinity trying to get the problem fixed. I woke up this morning and it was fixed but I am still…
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Arrggh
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3 hours on the phone with my hosting company and then 3 hours on the phone with my ISP, transferred from level to level only to be told that the department that handles my problem will call me back tomorrow between 9 and 9. Unless it takes longer to fix.
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Computer Trouble
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Last night I couldn’t get on any of the sites I work on including mine. Spent 2 hours with a rep today so far and have gotten it to work on mobile data, which is how I am doing this. I am being told that it could be either a…
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Eleven Questions
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As I mentioned yesterday, Brothers Campfire nominated me for the Sunshine Blogger Award, which was a really cool honor to me, until I read the rules. One of the rules is “Nominate 11 new blogs.” It was then I started realizing, I haven’t been out blog hopping for a long…
