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Our Manic Monday host Mo has given us the word Fresh this week.

I give you Fresh from my garden Sunday morning - some Honeysuckle Vines!

Honeysuckle is mentioned in many songs and books, but my favorite Honeysuckle lyric is Jimmy Buffet’s “Tin Cup Chalice”.

Live first verse & chorus version on YouTube:

Listen to Jimmy singing the complete studio version on Jango

A Fresh song from an always Fresh singer-songwriter about a fragrant & Fresh Honeysuckle Vine Fresh from the garden!

I’m betting that this was a Fresh take on this week’s theme. I’ll bet nobody else even thought of Honeysuckle Vines!

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Our Manic Monday host Mo has given us the word “egg” this week. Being Easter week, that shouldn’t be too difficult, but perhaps just a bit too easy. Paranoid? Perhaps.

So I wondered, what egg stories did I have that didn’t involve cute little Easter Egg hunts growing up, or my nephew’s Easter Egg hunts, which were way better because they got money hidden in their eggs. Oh yeah, actual “In God We Trust” Cashola! SisterDear would put coins in some and in some she would deposit bills. Sometimes she’d even put in tickets to the Red Sox game!! SisterDear2 is very cool! But she wouldn’t let me hunt for eggs, so some cool points had to be deducted for that.

Then I recalled a day a few years ago that I was having a bunch of friends over for a Gathering. One of my guests, the very sassy wife of a co-worker, brought me a very unusual Hostess Gift. She brought me a basket of freshly laid eggs, straight from “her girls” that very morning!! She has chickens, laying hens in fact, that she originally got as chicks one Easter to delight her grandchildren.

Now, I ask you, how often have you had eggs THAT fresh? The trouble for me was, since I knew the chickens personally, I found myself unable to actually eat the eggs. Yeah, I’m just weird that way.

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Mo has given us the work drink for this week’s Manic Monday. Ummm, have you noticed the name of my website? Also, my tag-line is “It’s Wine-thirty somewhere”! So, hey, No Problem!

I took this photo at my nephew’s wedding reception last year.

Ok people, raise your hands if you’ve had a drink!

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I had to drag out the old faithful, my Laptop. Hello, my old friend! It’s ancient in computer terms, but it still works beautifully. I had to replace the hard drive last year, but that’s all it’s ever asked of me in over 5 years. I just love Dell!

I came home last night to find that my home computer “died”. I’ve been expecting it as it’s been smelling “hot”. I’ll bring it in today; it’s probably just the Power Supply. It’s an HP and only a year old. I’m not real pleased with this track record. I’m sorry. It was an unbelievable price at Sam’s Club. I had a weak moment. I want a Gateway.

I just loved my 2 Gateways I had in Florida before I sold my business. They were just Bullet Proof! When I started my business here, of course, I wanted another Gateway.

However, as much as I love my Dell Laptop, and as grateful as I am to have it right now, I must admit that I want to get to work as early as possible today.

I hate Laptop keyboards and I was too lazy to hook up the wireless keyboard this morning.

I know, how pathetic is that?

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I Heart Microsoft.

I did my due diligence. I did the research. I made my pros & cons lists. Ultimately I chose to self-host my web site with Wordpress.org for my blog. Then I searched high & low to find a theme that I liked. I installed it. I upgraded it once almost immediately, which was intensely stressful on my nerves and not at all uncomplicated. Now I have to upgrade the software for the second time in a month due to what Wordpress says is a high security issue. Multiply that times two as I also have a Cat Blog.

I’ll be honest with you.  

I’m a tad ticked.

I’ve authored my commercial business web site for over 10 years with Microsoft FrontPage. The web site is content-rich for my specific industry. It’s much more complicated than a blog. It has many hundreds and hundreds of technical pages. But I must tell you, it’s much easier. It appeals to my logical mind. Upgrading is a breeze: Push a button.

This Wordpress self-hosting Installation & Upgrading is much too “technical-geeky”, which does not appeal to me. There should be some auto upgrade button. Somebody write that code. Please!

I may have to go back to Google Blogger or Wordpress.com and accept the loss of some control (and a tiny choice of themes & widgets) for the gain of less aggravation.

::Sigh::

I really Heart Microsoft.

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