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On Friday of this week, Carole, my ex-wife, and I will leave Atlanta for Vancouver and then embark from there on a cruise up the inward passage to Anchorage, Alaska. This is a trip that Carole decided last year she wanted to take, and she was kind enough to invite me to accompany her. While I'm not looking forward to the travel required to get there, I am looking forward to seeing the scenery before it all melts and to being able to check off one of the last three states that I've never visited. Just for the record, the other two are Hawaii and North Dakota. I can envision going to Hawaii, but I'd guess the only reason I'll ever have occasion to travel to North Dakota is just to complete the circuit of the 50 states.

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Today is an especially appropriate day for me to pay tribute to mothers, mine and those in my life, and to my father because today, May 14th, is also my dad's birthday. Had he lived he would have been 96 years old today. The title of a song by Fred Fisher from around the beginning of the 20th century, «Daddy, you've been a mother to me,» enables me to tie today's holiday celebrating mothers with the fact that it is his birthday, and I can reflect on them both and their contributions to my life.

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Today is an especially appropriate day for me to pay tribute to mothers, mine and those in my life, and to my father because today, May 14th, is also my dad's birthday. Had he lived he would have been 96 years old today. The title of a song by Fred Fisher from around the beginning of the 20th century, "Daddy, you've been a mother to me," enables me to tie today's holiday celebrating mothers with the fact that it is his birthday, and I can reflect on them both and their contributions to my life.

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My son, Jeff, and his wife, Deanna, and my grandson, Dustin, are visiting this weekend from Georgia. Blogging will be light, because they are here to help me do some maintenance and rearranging of my house. I'm looking forward to how things will look after all is said and done. I'll return to my life on the Internet at the beginning of next week. 

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Connor's Cap, originally uploaded by Dr Reelgood.

Connor Michael Nelson is approaching 10 months old now (on March 1), and he's already getting into the family tradition of playing with what Carole used to call «the seasonal ball.» If he turns out to be a basketball player, however, he'll be the first male in the family with any skill at playing that game. However, I think this photo of him is really cute, so I wanted to share it with you.

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Googer-Hill Family Easter, 2005, originally uploaded by FEDGIRL55.

My cousin, Pat Hill, posted this picture on her Flickr site of the gathering of the Googer and Hill clans at Easter 2005. It's good to see her posting some of her pictures on Flickr again. Here's her identification of the crew (with some additions by me in parentheses):

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The other night I wrote an explanation for Caole, my ex-wife, of Gmail's labeling capability. If you have a Gmail account, you may find it helpful to you as well, so I am copying the relevant part of my message to her here. If you don't have a Gmail account and would like one, feel free to email me (my address is in the About Me page) and I'll be glad to send you an invitation.

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I have just gotten off the phone with Carole, my ex-wife, who just yesterday completed the last of her 33 radiation treatments for breast cancer. She had the radiation after completing chemotherapy, so all of the immediate treatments related to the cancer that was discovered and removed surgically from her left breast have now been completed.

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Fall Color 11-08-05 001, originally uploaded by Dr Reelgood.

Mike got this picture just in time, because today the winds have picked up and the leaves on many of the trees around here are being blown off and onto the ground. The temperature in Knoxville today is supposed to reach 80 degrees. It's a stange November day here.

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