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Take this quiz to find out:
Do You Have What It Takes To Become a Citizen?
I scored 85%, missing three. They were:
14. Who selects the Supreme Court justices?
19. What INS form is used to apply to become a naturalized citizen?
20. Which of these contains three rights or freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of [...]

2006 Goal Tracking

Learn to whistle loudly using my fingersNo progress yet; still just blowing air
Learn three five card tricksNo new progress - still two down, three to go.
Learn five origami modelsCompleted - I’ve learned/relearned the crane, the flapping crane, the frog, the waterbomb and the iris.
Redecorate/organize my family room and den and spare bedroomFinished [...]

Holy Milestone, Batman!
Hard to believe, but this is the one thousandth post on Digital Wilderness, for a total of 155,028 words in approximately 850 days. Two years and 4 months have gone by since that first post and the site is still alive and kickin’, though it’s undergone several changes since the beginning. [...]

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday, dear Jennifer H
Happy Birthday to you

Well, it’s been a nice, long weekend for me…and it’s not quite over yet. I took off Friday as well as today and tomorrow, in anticipation of some stressful times ahead. We lost one person to maternity leave last week, and two others are getting married and taking extended time off in [...]

I want to go to
New Zealand.

After reading
several
articles in last Sunday’s
Enquirer, it seems like the ideal place to go.
The geography looks fantastic! There’s a variety of awesome landscapes, from glaciers and mountains to vast plains and beaches, all within close proximity to each other. It’s a great [...]

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there and especially my own. I don’t know what I’d do without all this help through the years, especially since I’ve been a homeowner. My yard and landscaping would be a mess and I wouldn’t have a deck without his help. Thanks dad!

For whatever reason, I’m in a blogging slump lately. I’ve lost my mojo. Just can’t seem to come up with ideas on things to post. I’ve got the desire and time to write, just can’t think of anything to write about. I hate the site being “stale” like this, so [...]

It has just been brought to my attention by my brother that some of you may have had problems leaving comments on this site. To help stop the massive amounts spam comments that had been flooding this blog, I installed and activated a
Captcha-based security measure when I redid the site a month [...]