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Voices for May

Looks like I won't have access to a computer every day in May - so I will write in my journal and then post entries per the day I wrote them. I'm going on vacation, so I imagine all those days will have some kind of exciting entry. Returning to old places also stirs up memories - so I am sure I will have a lot to write.

This will be fun because I am also participating in a May Sharpie event - ATCs for the month of May - we sign up for a card number challenge - I'm taking some blanks wi…

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Posted by Jan Lopez on April 29th, 2008 at 9:59am — No Comments (Add)
 

Theme for May - Voices

I keep thinking of a song, "Voices, I hear Voices..." I think it was from Miami Vice - some song they played - I'll have to find out more - it's on the fringe of my memory.

I will be on the road during May, but I will try to post everyday.

I think I will post dialogues - the voices of others speaking or maybe what I said during the day to whoever I was talking to...or maybe the voice in my head telling me crap.

I am looking foward to it.

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Posted by Jan Lopez on April 24th, 2008 at 12:52pm — No Comments (Add)
 

Book Stores

I have come to terms that I am a book purchasing addict. Long ago, I realized that a large portion of any money I had to spend went to getting books - art books, science fiction books, reference books - and as I would get interested in various topics such as Mayan history - I'd get those books too. I had high standards - only hardback books graced my shelves.

When one retires, however, the scene changes - I haunt used books stores - love the ease of carrying around a paperback - and ha…

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Posted by Jan Lopez on November 8th, 2007 at 8:15am — No Comments (Add)
 

Recycle

I just saw some photos on a web site illustrating the consumption in the United States. Taken as one item advertised on television, you shrug your shoulder and go on about your business. When you see a mountain of cell phone chargers and an ocean of cell phones representing what people throw away every day - it staggers the mind. http://chrisjordan.com

I am sick to death of car and trcuk commercials on television. I used to think, "who buys a trcuk…

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Posted by Jan Lopez on November 7th, 2007 at 9:23am — No Comments (Add)
 

Health Care

It's a joke. We are newly retired and the current selection option for our health care HMO is being eliminated next year - the default option costs $400 more a MONTH than our current option. I am looking at the other low cost options available through the plan, but I just started.

To me, a $400 a month increase is a pretty big one. We had to run around this year finding various clinics to get flu shots, as our doctors are not offering them - even to high-risk patients. Not offereing th…

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Posted by Jan Lopez on November 6th, 2007 at 8:32am — No Comments (Add)