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This is weird, but interesting!  Sent to me from my neice. 

If you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid too

Can you raed this? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd (more…)

About 1/3 of the crowd. Opening of Softie's is a sure sign of Spring here in Billings, MT. That and the kids starting to play baseball outside.

Softie’s on the corner of 24th and Broadwater usually opens sometime in March. As usual, they are very busy, so much so you’d think they would open another place to take care of the crowds. (more…)

Montana Republicans can have something else to be excited about this election season.  Another young, enthusiastic, good looking, connected, and involved individual has taken the plung and jumped in head first for House Distict 44.  Bill Glaser has retired and hung his hat up after 16 years of service to the people of his district which included (more…)

Steeple & Tree St Patrick's Co-Cathedral Downtown Billings, MT

This is the steeple of St Patrick’s Co-Cathedral here in Billings, Montana. A short lesson in terminology might be helpful.

From Wikipedia—Ordinary Time is a split season of the Christian (especially the Catholic) liturgical calendar. The Sundays after Christmas and Epiphany, the last 6 January, are Sundays in Ordinary Time. The others follow Pentecost. They do not fall under the “strong seasons” of Advent, Christmas, Lent, or Easter.

The English name is intended to translate the Latin term Tempus per annum (literally “time through the year”).

How do we get “Ordinary Time” from “time through the year”? (more…)

The New Yorker magazine cover

I couldn’t resist copying this cover of an older issue of the New Yorker when first I saw it. Every time I come across it in iPhoto I say to myself (more…)

Medical Cartoon

I was getting worried when I hadn’t heard for what seemed like months from my favorite cardiac-turned-plastic surgeon, Billings’ own Dr Alan Muskett. I know I’ve blogged about him in the past but I couldn’t find the entries, though I did find in back pages of the Gazette a number of other good articles by Dr Muskett. Chalk it up to advancing age, mine, not his.

By the way, one of the many ways you can measure your own decline is to re-read a few of your past attempts at sensible blogging, which I did while searching for blogs about the good Dr Muskett. Well OK, I enjoyed a few of them, mostly those I had borrowed from others. I think I actually improved the blogosphere a little by deleting some. I should have (more…)

Hanging Out Up North When Not Posing For Climate Change Photographers

Sniglet=a word not found in the dictionary but should. As in these: from this very useful website. And also from here. And this one too.

Logo for the 2010 United States Census. It's in our hands, is the motto this year.

Now if you haven’t had any visitors to your residence in awhile, it’s not common practice to then expect some.  Especially if they’re from the government.  I’m not referring to the IRS.  It’s that time when each individual is counted in the mighty land of the United States of America.  Do you really think the census can count every person in the US?  What about the ranchers or cattle in Montana or all the imports from California or even the tourist who come and stay?  Let’s give the Census the best chance because its money in our pocket or so the story goes.  Allow me to explain. 

Did you know the 2010 Census form for this year is only a whopping (more…)