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The First Week’s Assignment

Reading A Message to Garcia then posting our thoughts about it was our first week’s assignment in Red State’s Book Notes project. My post pertaining to that assignment is up, by the way. Being able to share my own thoughts after the reading and following the Diary Entries of other Red Staters who are participating [...]

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Posted 12 October 2009 † Roscoe § books § conservatism ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: , , , , ,

RedState Book Notes

This morning’s email brought news of a proposed group reading project: RedState Book Notes. Hosted at RedState.com, the project asks three simple things of those participating: # Get the book. # Read the assigned chapter or chapters (usually 1, but more if the book is short). # Write a post over the following weekend with [...]

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Posted 07 October 2009 † Roscoe § books § conservatism ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,

24 days in, 12 lbs. down

This is the chart of my current Weight Loss Project (WLP), updated as of this morning at WeightChart.com. It shows that I’ve finally dropped off my first big plateau of the project. ‘Bout darned time! Of course, I didn’t drop very far. But it’s good to be headed in the right direction again. The black [...]

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Posted 16 August 2009 † Roscoe § health ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: , , ,

17 days in, 11 lbs. down

Above is the chart of my current Weight Loss Project (WLP), updated as of this morning at WeightChart.com. It shows the rate of my weight loss has slowed quite a bit from the WLPs first days. It also shows that since I’ve already reached the first milestone (a ten pound drop in weight, the orange [...]

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Posted 09 August 2009 † Roscoe § health ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: , ,

One project completed

Well, sort of completed. It’s really very seldom that I consider any of my projects totally finished. There’s always room for improvement, you know. And I do want to push progress just as far as I can. One of my self-assigned projects for this month was procuring a digital converter box and setting it up [...]

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Posted 10 July 2009 † Roscoe § ‡ Comments Off °

Another DILO day…

…is underway: A Day In the Life Of… well, in the life of me, as recorded by casual photographs I take during this day. There are actually thousands of photographers from around the world participating in this free photo-sharing project which is held four times each year. My DILO set for this day has been [...]

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Posted 20 March 2009 † Roscoe § DILO § photography ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: , ,