President Obama writes school girl’s excuse from last day

Thursday, 11 June 2009, 12:53 | Category : Life
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Just watched the President Obama’s Town Hall meeting in Green Bay, WI. He wrote a note to a teacher for Kennedy, a ten year old girl, that was missing her last day of school.
Just my 2 cents. Jim @ ChangeJarSavings.com
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PSA – DST started

Sunday, 8 March 2009, 6:42 | Category : Life
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I woke up early today. Or so I thought. At 6:30 this morning I got up. Forgot that in the US we switch to daylight savings time. At 2 am our clocks jump ahead an hour. I forgot to change the clocks last night before going to sleep. So what I thought was 6:30 was [...]

Anniversary – Welcome to the new site!

Sunday, 30 November 2008, 11:01 | Category : Life, Welcome / Site Info / Advertise Here
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Getting Ahead in Life was started at Blogger.com in November 2007. Yes, it has been a year. I had two things that frustrated me. I could not edit comments and I wanted a shorter address because http://www.gettingaheadinlife.blogspot.com/ was to long for me to remember, so how could my readers. I thought I could live with [...]

Halloween is coming

Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 5:52 | Category : Life
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The grandsons are looking forward to Halloween, mostly the 5 year old. They want to be Sponge Bob and Patrick. I have not bought costumes in years.
Frankly, I am surprised by how much they cost. So my wife daughter and I are brainstorming on how to make them their costumes. If they were older they [...]

All is quiet

Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 10:43 | Category : Life
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Yes I have been quiet. The stomach flu (and other illensses) has hit our house. I was third in line to get it and helping to take care of the other sickies in the house (and work) left no time for blogging. I can deal with it. I missed work for a half a day [...]