My computer died this morning. It was a brief sudden power outage that lasted 15 seconds. Fifteen seconds enough to take the last legs out of my tired little 5-year old computer (funny how it happens but I get computers every 5 years; I knew that this one was going to die sooner or later, it had to get major CPR last summer and it took about 20
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When and where I was growing up, we did not have Santa. Christmas was a fairly solemn religious holiday (even though we never fasted) with a more spiritual meaning. My mom used to have a Christmas tree every year. The same artificial sorry looking tree that was stored in a large dusty box in the crawl space above the bathroom (that's where the
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