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This morning both of my sites, this one and The Fun Addicts site, hosted at Dreamhost have been up and down intermittently. Obviously this blog is up right now. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to make this post and you wouldn't be able to read it. So if you attempt to view the site or make a comment here and you only get a blank page, please just check back later. I reported the outage to the support team at Dreamhost and they have since reported back to me that they couldn't find anything wrong. So who knows what the cause was, but now it seems to be back up and functioning again.

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As you can see, I've changed the theme (a.k.a. template) again. This time it was sort of out of necessity.

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The title of this post is from the lyrics of a hymn, but it describes how I spent almost all of yesterday and most of the evening before.

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In this 40 minute video, Robert Scoble is given a tour of Intel's fabrication facility in Hillsboro, OR., where Mark Bohr explains the process and discusses the new 45 nm processor that Intel is developing. My thanks to Mr. Scoble for making it possible for me to embed the video here on my blog.

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012407 Phoenix-Grand Canyon Trip 039

Originally uploaded by Dr Reelgood.

This is one of a number of outstanding pictures Mike got during his recent trip to the Grand Canyon. I particularly like this one, when viewed in a larger resolution (which you can do on his Flickr site). If you haven't yet checked out this series of photographs, I recommend it highly. You can click on any individual picture there and once the somewhat larger thumbnail of it is displayed, you'll find an «all sizes» link above it. Clicking that will display the picture in a large size, and quite a few of them deserve to be seen that way.

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Yesterday in a series of email exchanges, Mike and Daryl and I discussed how we might modify what we are doing with the KnoxBloggers group so as to encourage more people to participate and at the same time place less demands on those with busy schedules. We came up with some ideas that we think might achieve those goals.

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My friend Daryl Houston details the events leading up to tonight's get together at the library here in West Knoxville. I'm looking forward to exchanging performances with him of reading poetry aloud to each other.

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Yavapai Point Buck

Originally uploaded by Dr Reelgood.

Mike, Cheryl and Connor traveled to Arizona over this last weekend because Cheryl, who works for Morgan Stanley, had a meeting in Scottsdale on Monday. They went out early so they could travel down to the Grand Canyon on a mini-vacation and sight-seeing tour. Of course, one of Mike's objectives was to do some photography.

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Back in the late 1970s while I was still a member of the S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A., Inc. (now called the Barbershop Harmony Society), I was privileged to be a member of a quartet called the Fun Addicts. Bob Wilson (tenor), Forrest Umberger (lead), and Phil Petty (bass) were the other members. We sang together all over the country for only about three years, but we used to have great times together.

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