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If you need your house painted, my advice to you is this: do not call Jireh Remodeling and Painting. I did: my experience was they made a mess, left shoddy work, and were more interested in receiving payment than delivering a quality customer expeience. Here’s a photo gallery showing the state in which they left my property at the end of the job.

Included below is my log of the details of my experience in working with Jireh Remodeling.

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I added a photo gallery for my random images. Like this:

I’ve written an import plugin for WordPress that’ll extract articles from a Joomla 1.5 database and import them as WordPress posts on a category basis. It’s pretty cool … check it out!

I’ve started posting links on my Facebook page every day and will do so now through December 25. These links will be to videos of some of my favorite and not-often-heard holiday music. Enjoy!

“The Perilous Labor of Prince Thag” from the book The White Deer by James Thurber is probably my all-time favorite thing to read out loud. Try it yourself, and you’ll see why.

The premise is this: while hunting, Prince Thag – along with his two brothers, Prince Gallow and Prince Jorn, and their father King Clode – come across a white deer. When the deer is cornered, it mysteriously turns into a princess who can remember neither her name nor her kingdom. The princess sets each of the princes on his own quest, and the first one to complete her quest will win her hand and her heart.

The princess commissions Prince Thag to hunt and kill with a single lance and all alone the great Blue Boar of Thedon Grove in the Forest of Jeopardy, and to bring back its golden tusks and place them at her feet …

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Unfortunately, the only people who will watch and appreciate this are the people who don’t need to see it. And vice versa.

From the final forecast discussion for 2010 tropical storm Richard by Senior Hurricane Specialist Dr. Richard J. Pasch:

THIS IS THE LAST ADVISORY ON RICHARD.  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE
REMNANTS OF RICHARD...THE LOW...NOT THE FORECASTER...CAN BE FOUND
IN HIGH SEAS FORECASTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...
UNDER AWIPS HEADER NFDHSFAT1 AND WMO HEADER FZNT01 KWBC.

I loved this quote from the forecast discussion of Hurricane Paula:

A HURRICANE IS CROSSING BETWEEN THE WESTERN TIP OF CUBA AND EASTERN
YUCATAN...BUT WITHOUT MODERN TECHNOLOGY NO ONE WOULD KNOW IT WAS
THERE.

I just posted my very first PuzzGrid. Have fun with it!