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• Strange Days Indeed (Norwich Meetings)

  Necessary but sad business on tonight 's Norwich City Council agenda , starting at 7 in Room 335 of City Hall, as Ms. Dee Ann Brennan, the even-tempered, seemingly unflappable Town and City Clerk, is retiring and the Council will be recruiting within... Posted Nov 17 2008, 04:38 AM by rags with | with no comments Filed under: http://tiltingatwindmills-dweeb.blogspot.com/

• Bono is God--but NOT vice versa

  Just in time for Sunday, a news brief from earlier in the week, linking Canton, CT, with Jensen Beach, Florida (I've never (to my knowledge) been in either place, but their luck may eventually run out and I hope they'll be gracious should that... Posted Nov 16 2008, 11:51 AM by rags with | with no comments Filed under: http://tiltingatwindmills-dweeb.blogspot.com/

• It's Okay, I'm with the Band

  An unsolicited plug for a local event: tomorrow night, starting at 6, Norwich Free Academy Wild Cats are hosting the "2008 Classic Band Festival" which, despite the name will NOT include Iron Butterfly or The Grassroots, but kidding aside, is... Posted Oct 03 2008, 04:45 AM by rags with | with no comments Filed under: http://tiltingatwindmills-dweeb.blogspot.com/

• My Aim is True

  In the last couple of days we've had a return of sort of summer in terms of temperatures. We have a tendency to call it "Indian summer" though I wonder what it's called if you're either on the Indian sub-continent or a Native American... Posted Oct 02 2008, 04:46 AM by rags with | with no comments Filed under: http://tiltingatwindmills-dweeb.blogspot.com/

• An Original Idea-just not mine......

  Someone shared this with me and as the Wall Street Waltz warmed up in the last days and the dancing grew more intense and the exchange of partners more frenzied I kept coming back to it. Every time I looked at whom in Congress was fashioning 'a rescue... Posted Oct 01 2008, 06:23 AM by rags with | with no comments Filed under: http://tiltingatwindmills-dweeb.blogspot.com/

• The Hypnotized Never Lie

  One of my favorite websites has recently changed its appearance. I missed the chatter running up to the overhaul on why it was happening and what was supposed to be in it for me, so all I have is the site, itself, and the necessity to relearn where the... Posted Sep 30 2008, 04:42 AM by rags with | with no comments Filed under: http://tiltingatwindmills-dweeb.blogspot.com/

• Under the hood, but dreaming of the steering wheel

  In many small towns and municipalities, not just here in Connecticut, but across the country, we have volunteers, either elected to offices of public responsibility, or helping out in a thousand different ways on a hundred different advisories, boards... Posted Sep 29 2008, 08:05 AM by rags with | with no comments Filed under: http://tiltingatwindmills-dweeb.blogspot.com/

• Supply and Demand Meets Bread and Circuses

  The Sunday papers are slowly thickening again--the merchants near and far are starting to position themselves for Christmas or Merry Thanksgivoween as a Mike Thompson cartoon called it a couple of years ago. In addition to real news, not abstractions... Posted Sep 28 2008, 08:38 AM by rags with | with no comments Filed under: http://tiltingatwindmills-dweeb.blogspot.com/

• My Middle School Honor Roll Student's Lhasa Apso can beat up your Boy Scout

  I haven't actually seen this bumper sticker yet , but wouldn't that look cool on the back of your car or mini-van? (I'd never do it, because I'm the quiet crazy who grew his hair long on the inside of my head while all my college chums... Posted Sep 27 2008, 08:41 AM by rags with | with no comments Filed under: http://tiltingatwindmills-dweeb.blogspot.com/

• Of Golden Parachutes and Green Mail

  To start: the only legitimate excuse a registered voter can offer the rest of us tomorrow morning for NOT watching the first Presidential debate between Senators Obama and John McCain tonight might be 'I was kidnapped by aliens.' Be prepared to... Posted Sep 26 2008, 04:44 AM by rags with | with no comments Filed under: http://tiltingatwindmills-dweeb.blogspot.com/

• (Do) All Dogs Go to Heaven?

  I had an errand to run Sunday morning across town in Norwich so I used Asylum Street to take me towards East Great Plains (I don't know if there's a West Great Plains; there's an East Lyme and an Old Lyme and a Lyme (I wonder if Harry 's... Posted Sep 25 2008, 06:20 AM by rags with | with no comments Filed under: http://tiltingatwindmills-dweeb.blogspot.com/

• Indecent Dissent

  Maybe because we're busy, maybe because we just don't pay enough attention, and most likely because we don't care-we've devolved from what my wife's countrymen call the "Land der Unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten " (the Land of... Posted Sep 23 2008, 04:42 AM by rags with | with no comments Filed under: http://tiltingatwindmills-dweeb.blogspot.com/

• Meetings, Bloody meetings...

  I love John Cleese , not as in Eric the Half Bee , but on an alien, distant shore sort of way and I often think about his management video when I sit through meetings at work or, more often, when I attend municipal meetings. (someday, this entire space... Posted Sep 22 2008, 04:41 AM by rags with | with no comments Filed under: http://tiltingatwindmills-dweeb.blogspot.com/

• End of the Season

  Tomorrow marks the start of Autumn or, since I'm a half-empty glass kind of guy, the end of summer. I don't know when it started, and I don't really remember when I first noticed it, but the seasons don't last as long as they used to,... Posted Sep 21 2008, 09:43 AM by rags with | with no comments Filed under: http://tiltingatwindmills-dweeb.blogspot.com/

• Praise we great vowels

  We're smack in the middle of The Big E an event that I paid absolutely no attention to for over a decade when we first arrived here on the Mayflower (moving van, that is. Sorry DAR ). It wasn't a sense of history or mystery, for that matter, that... Posted Sep 19 2008, 04:46 AM by rags with | with no comments Filed under: http://tiltingatwindmills-dweeb.blogspot.com/