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Visit the moment

I was chatting the other day with George, a fellow employee of Fort Wayne Newspapers, and at one point mentioned that, because of the Monday holiday, we were probably going to spend all week thinking it was one day earlier than it really was.

"Not me," George said.

"You're back in sync already?"

"Yep. I live in the moment."

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14 and counting

There is really nothing substantive in this post. But I just realized that I had 13 posts for today, and I had to do one more, to get the number to 14.

I'm not given to unreasonable fears, really I'm not. I'm a bit of an agoraphobic and a claustrophobe -- I like to be inside, but in a really big house. And I have to brush my teeth the same number of times in exactly the same way each time -- oh, wait, that's obsessive and compulsive, not phobic.

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Whip it out

Cool. Next time I have an extended stay in the hospital, I can have my IV tube and YouTube, too:

INDIANAPOLIS -- First, people got used to being able to surf the Web via free wireless connections as they sipped lattes at coffee shops.

Now, in many cases, patients and visitors to hospitals can whip out their laptops or other wireless devices and enjoy the same free Internet access.

Kng of colas

Amen:

My love affair with Royal Crown Cola began in college when we started drinking RC with Crown Royal whisky. That drink is commonly known as "Royal Crown Crown Royal," but we just called it "Double Crown."

Two cheers

Woody Guthrie is one of my musical heroes, but he was, alas, a hard-core Communist. "This Land Is Your Land" was not a sentimental song of  American idealism; it pretty much presented the Stalinist view of land and property. Many leftists who came of age in the 1920s and 1930s, it is said, became party members or avid followers of the Soviet Union out of some misguided sense of collectivist altruism. For many, this was true.

Too busy? Sleep on it

But sleep is the leisure activity:

Americans who log long hours on the job find the time for leisure and other activities by cutting down on sleep, a study reports today.

Drink up

Should the drinking age be lowered?

An increasing number of college officials are arguing that current drinking laws have failed. Instead of keeping students away from alcohol, they argue, the laws simply drive underage drinking underground and toward unsafe extremes.

Work, work, work

How cool to be able to go to work without having to, you know, go to work:

Imagine a work world with no commute, no corporate headquarters and perhaps not even an office in the physical world at all.

For Bob Flavin, a computer scientist at IBM; Janet Hoffman, an executive at a management consulting firm; and Joseph Jaffe, a marketing entrepreneur, the future is already here.

Something to look forward to

Well, thank goodness. I'd hate to think the rest of my life will be defined by my 50s:

Sex and interest in it do fall off when people are in their 70s, but more than a quarter of those up to age 85 reported having sex in the previous year. And the drop-off has a lot to do with health or lack of a partner, especially for women, the survey found.

Big Jim, er, Mac

Everybody has heroes. Jim Delligatti is one of mine:

McDonald's without the Big Mac would be like the Pittsburgh Steelers without their black and gold team colors.

Thus, it's only fair that the franchise's signature sandwich, and the man who invented it, will be feted today at the opening of the Big Mac Museum Restaurant, in North Huntingdon.

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