All about me

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Well, there's half an hour I won't get back again. Google's much-anticipated Street View has finally been unveiled in Fort Wayne, so naturally I had to try it out. I went to maps.google.com and typed in our address -- 600 W. Main St., Fort Wayne IN -- then clicked on Street View. I clicked on the arrow to scroll east on Main Street until I came to Broadway, then started clicking to go south and didn't stop till I got to my house on Oakdale.

What I'm reading right now (besides the usual junk fiction) is "Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin," featuring the musings and recipes of a New York

I thought I'd been nagged by the best, but apparently not:

A woman's "nagging" led her husband to buy a ticket in the $7.5 million Powerball with a couple of minutes to spare on Saturday night.

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I have never been so glad to listen to my wife's nagging," he said.

Way to encourage her, pal. You now deserve what you get for the rest of your life.

Guess I'd better brace myself for all that extra work I'm going to have to do tomorrow:

People across the country are being urged to skip work Wednesday after calling in "gay."

The loosely organized protest, called "Day Without a Gay," (www.daywithoutagay.org) is intended as a statement against California's ban on same-sex marriage, along with other political developments considered anti-gay.

OK, so Obama hasn't been able to totally quit smoking yet. Who's surprised? Some people think his attempt to duck the question in the Tom Brokaw interview is a symbol of Bigger Things:

If we can't get a straight answer out of Barack Obama about a  personal habit like smoking, are we to expect any different with the economy, taxes, defense, spending, or past associations?

At last, a bailout I can get behind:

Seven legislators from the area served by The Bristol Press and The Herald in New Britain today wrote to the state Department of Economic and Community Development to ask for its help in preventing the closure of the newspapers.

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For those of you who aren't content to know how popular Barack Obama is from month to month or even week to week, you can check out his Daily Presidential Approval Index:

Suddenly, cash is back. Shoppers are planning on cutting back on Christmas this year. And when they do buy:

A shift to cash is one of the changes in consumer behavior that has emerged since the financial meltdown that could depress consumer spending this holiday season and affect shoppers' habits long afterward. Analysts think Americans are likely to stick with buying only what they can afford, just as their parents or grandparents did after the Great Depression.

Does John Madden really say anything? I don't mean ever -- he always has interesting thoughts on football, as here, where he talks about what it was like to coach a lot of characters on the Oakland team: