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  • Customer Service

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    Herb

    Now here is a lesson in customer service and positive PR that some websites would do well to learn from.  In my last entry I mentioned, sort of “en passant,” that Carter and I had started our website, the long-awaited, much-anticipated “Republic of Bob” on a website called Wetpaint.com.  I referred to my disdain…

  • Title Goes Up Here

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    Herb

    So, I was at my favorite trivia site, Gullible.info and found this little tidbit: “.18 percent of blog posts indexed by Google blog search begin with the word “so”.” So I’m sorry, I just don’t have time to do much writing of any sort, even though I have been so graciously “Phaved” by J…

  • Givethanksing Day 2

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    Herb

    I found the folder that had the pictures from my mom’s last visit out here. It was only three months ago that she passed away and only five months ago that her church sent her out here as chronicled here Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5,…

  • I Still Swear…So Help Me God

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    Herb

    *Standing at attention, right arm at ninety degree angle* “I, Herbert C. Thiel, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey…

  • Another Old Buddy

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    Herb

    When the girls were in Scouting they learned a sweet, cute little song about friendship, which went: Make new friends But keep the old One is silver And the other is gold While I was at my dad’s house this last time, there was a knock on the door and…

  • Funeral Visit

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    Herb

    I would so much like to thank all of you for your prayers, kind thoughts and words of encouragement. The trip was long. I was thankful to have learned a lot from reading Pops’s accounts of his father’s last days because I was somewhat prepared for the emotional roller-coaster ride.…

  • Making Apothecary

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    Herb

    When I got that first job at the drugstore back in 1974 (see the entry “Changed”), I learned a lot. I don’t know how much I knew I was learning at the time, but I think back and a few things stand out. I learned: If you get out of…

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