Granati writes: "I've been messin' with some macro shots and did this little ditty. I know, not the greatest, but i'm still learning.

*After a rough week reporting sad news, Mommy Dearest/BrodH20 had these plans for a well-earned day off today: "I'm going to spend the morning drinking my good coffee. Eating my chocolate and Cheetos for breakfast. I'm going to take an extra long and uninterrupted shower. Paint my toenails red. Eventually I might go out shopping for a couple hours here."

*Put your hands together for Cis/From A Simple Mind who is beginning her third year of blogging today and plans to keep at it as long as it remains fun here.

*As a stay-at-home dad, Family Phil/A Family Runs Through It sez he's accustomed to strange looks and inappropriate comments from people who are ignorant or jealous here.

*Trish Gannon/Wading Through the River Journal describes three ways that new technology is expanding the reach of newspapers here.

*DanG/Wambool Lunch posts: "Occasionally I've wanted to get back into the technical arena, but the call of some new beginner's book was always out there. So I found myself fortunate when this past year I took some time off and actually wrote a hard-core technical book. It's even more fortunate that the thing got published! here."

Meanwhile, Tumblewords offers a pair of fibonacci poems here, Silver Valley Stories breaks a sword rather than a leg at the theater here, Dogwalk Musings makes an international Internet connection here, Slight Detour was into stream of consciousness Sunday here, tongue firmly cheeked, JeanC offers 40 reasons to ban guns here, sadly, Plaid Toaster's pregnancy is going poorly here, and Kellogg Bloggin' is trying to come to grips with Marmite here.

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