(h/t to Texas Fred) The Army has notified the family of Matt Maupin of Ohio that they have ID’d his remains. The thoughts and prayers of a grateful nation are with the Maupin family during their time of loss.

My first BlogTalkRadio show was Friday morning – talk about a learning curve! Many, many thanks to the Loon for her immeasurable support and help.

A package arrived from Hammacher/Shlemmer on Friday morning. It is a slide-and-negative-to-digital scanner, which will allow me to first transfer all of my grandfather’s slides to digital for safekeeping (without paying an outrageous amount of money for someone to do it for me) and second to start offering the same service to others, without charging an outrageous amount of money to do it.

Here in the “office” where the computer is, I have built storage shelves for my model railroading collection and my wife’s craft supplies. The cats have discovered that if they climb up, in, and around the various boxes and stored items that we can’t get to them to remove them from the room when we leave. That allows us to instead find the little gifts they leave behind. Ah, the joys of sharing a house with cats.

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Wearing my Rolling Thunder today.

First show is in the can: listen to it and rate it here!

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(You know the drill – scroll down for new posts. No, really – there are newer posts under this one. Don’t always go by the date, OK? Gosh. Just scroll down already.)

I will be on BlogTalkRadio starting Friday morning – since I am at home during the day, and MEG doesn’t (usually) get up until 8:00 or so, I have scheduled a show to start at 0700 MST – which is 0700 PDT, 0800 MDT, 0900 CDT, and 1000 EDT. If you are farther east or west than that, please adjust accordingly. The name of the show is “I’m Thinking of the “O” Word” – pretty original, eh?

The show can be accessed at http://blogtalkradio.com/carycartter. Tune in on this Red Friday to listen, or call in at (347) 838-9573. The show will start out as a general talk type show, and I am willing to follow the topic just about anywhere. Same rules apply there as here – Keep it Clean, or I Will.

I look forward to hearing from all of you. In the meantime, go on over to BTR and see who else you might know.

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Sorry.

Both girls are sick, and down for the count. I’m updating my reading of my favorite blogs (the list is to the left, a little below this post … a little further … under “Blogroll”, see it?) and I humbly request you visit these fine bloggers. Leave comments where appropriate. Let them know I said “hi” unless you can see that I’ve been there today, by the comments I left…

Remember, my pilot BlogTalkRadio show tomorrow – don’t know where it’ll go, but I’m pretty sure one of the topics will be the uncommon virtue of common sense.

Not that I preach on that here enough, or anything…

I’ve also found out recently (more like, been re-informed) that the use of ellipses is considered a grammatic faux pas … oh well …

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For some reason, MEG has decided to start getting up earlier. That might tweak the show schedule. Maybe I’ll start keeping her up a little later…

This morning, we had a great time. Breakfast, and playing, and chasing the dogs. MEG wanted to go outside and play in the back yard. No problem, right?

Well … remember the dogs mentioned earlier?

Yeah. They had all weekend to hide their own “Easter Eggs” and one of them likes to kind of kick the gravel over her gifts, hiding them pretty well.

So, I’m out there trying to get the yard apples picked up before MEG can get to them. You see, she likes to “help” daddy by picking them up too. Of course, she doesn’t have a scoop or anything… so daddy has to move pretty darn quick, I don’t mind telling you. Didn’t move quite quick enough on one of the hidden ones – however, I did catch her hand before she moved it very far away from the site – enough to get it cleaned off with a wipe, and then washed real good.

Don’t tell TMBWitW, okay? She gets a little worried about things like that…

Now, MEG is down for the nap, I’ve been through the BTR training, and I’m chatting with a friend in Yahoo while posting this and listening to K-LOVE on the internet. I think I’ll go watch the DVR of New Amsterdam from last night. Good series. If you don’t get it on your service, try checking out Hulu, a new site that has a bunch of shows archived with limited commercials.

Life is good.

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