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Tomorrow is the final day of September. The final day of 30 Days of Nothing.

For four weeks, I’ve repeatedly checked the calendar. For four weeks, the days have dragged on, shaming me in the reality that we are up to our armpits in a materialistic world. And for four weeks I’ve shared with you a plan, idealism, frustration, reality checks, diminishing resolve and goals.
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Gizmos part II. Yesterday I told you about the nifty comment auto-links I have on this site. Today, I’ll introduce you to my feeds.

Basically a feed is a constant retrieval of new content from a site. This little orange thing I keep on my sidebar is a “chicklet” and when you click on it, you have a bazillion different options for getting “fed”. Each has a standard set-up, but once you’re subscribed, subsequent subscriptions are done (literally) with 2 clicks (okay, I just checked – it’s four.)
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On a glorious weekend afternoon, we met my brothers and sisters at the apple orchard. Very tall Uncle Eric, plus very tall seven-year-old Curt, quickly became a human extension ladder to the perfect apples at the top of the trees.

Karen and Irene host Love Thursdays, so you can find the other participants on their sites. It’s always an uplifting read.

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Thank you Pamela for your opinion about the wierd stretch-banner I had up until today. Lisa, my design goddess, fixed that for me. Thanks to Kailani for the heads-up that my site looked like a horror flick in Firefox. I investigated and figured out the photo code needed a little tweaking.

PLEASE TELL ME if there are other issues you notice, ever. This would include my daily periodic typographical errors.