blog: Cyber Café Conversations—HELP, we have “Blogger’s Block” this Morning! - 03/16/07 04:55 AM
As we said in a previous post, A Minnesota winter does not give up easily, and this morning on Boomer’s back porch, that fact is being made abundantly clear! The old replica “Pruett’s Pig Powders” thermometer informs that the temperature is a brisk +24ºF, and the wind on our faces … (14 comments)
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blog: Reflections from my Back Porch Tuesday Morning - 12/19/06 06:01 AM
It is +27F, and still this morning as I stand on my back porch with my (china, not stoneware) mug of coffee (gotcha—no description) warming my hands, and jump-starting my brain, making my synapses synapse.
Today I made my first post exclusive to the group: “Codgers & Friends Conversations,” and … (19 comments)
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blog: Old Men & Coffee Shops: Continued Blatant Trolling for Comments on a Saturday Morning - 12/16/06 07:05 AM
Good Morning to you all, Gentle Readers! Medford and I have been working on our marketing plan for the codgers. Today we will give you an idea of what the regular crew of codgers look like—at least in caricature.
Top Row: Jay Merton & Medford Ambrose (both re-drawn).
Bottom Row: … (21 comments)
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blog: Old Men & Coffee Shops: Blatant Trolling for Comments or Active Rain Blog Marketing ? - 12/15/06 05:08 AM
I didn’t linger long on my back porch this morning as the boys were assembling early at the café today for our daily meeting. It seems they actually read our posts, and have some concerns about the blog.
“What is all this?” asked Harold the retired barber as I sat … (11 comments)
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blog: Sunday Stuff - 12/03/06 11:10 AM
This is our "Cyber Cafe" banner all dressed up for the Christmans Holidays. This one I didn't have to build from scratch.
Yesterday, in our post: “We Can’t Help Ourselves—Today’s BAD Joke,” in our last comment we posed a bit of a puzzle for any subsequent reader/commenter: “Take a good look … (0 comments)
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blog: Reflections from the Back Porch, Wednesday Morning, 22 Nov 2006 - 11/22/06 06:13 AM
We will be taking Thanksgiving off—completely, as we hope you consider as well. No Posts. No comments. Med, Laura & I will not so much as press the power switch on our computers. We will be developing a couple of new characters: James our currently one-dimensional whipping boy will start to … (8 comments)
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blog: WHADDAYA GOTTA DO TO EARN A "GOLD STAR?" - 11/03/06 07:00 AM
After this morning's codger meeting, Medford & I removed to his place, and got to talking about AR's coveted "Gold Star" designation for featured posts. We are the recipient of one such award. We like gold stars! We really likethe bragging rights they give us with the codgers: "See, we told … (7 comments)
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blog: Took the Day Off - 10/28/06 09:26 PM
Even retired guys like me get a day off, today was mine. I stayed away from the computer & blogs from this morning until this evening. I just knocked around all day.
Carl (retired Army, Retired Ford Plant assembly line foreman) with his excellent sense of timing, stopped by the … (3 comments)
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blog: New Regular Feature of our Blog - 10/15/06 12:39 PM
Weekday banner for the Old Men & Coffee Shop series(above), you may guess, but we won't tell!
Saturday banner (or when we don't meet)Skyline of St. Paul:
I may just figure out how to make them fit the top of the document. I am not Kristal, or Maureen, who are capable of using … (5 comments)
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