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Throughout my professional life in digital marketing, I often would witness patterns that underscore foundational truths about business, trust, and ethics. Over the years, I have found that the simple salesman ethos of underpromising and overdelivering isn’t just a professional virtue. In fact, it’s a life principle that can save time, heartache, and resources. Much…
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In early February, on a cloudy, chilly Monday, Emily Slatin and I made our way through the winding roads of Vermont to visit the Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury. It’s a hidden gem of a museum, known only to Thomas because she had visited it nearly twenty years ago. It’s known best by those living…
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On a cold and cloudy Monday morning in February 2023, Emily Slatin and I decided to take a day trip to Glover, Vermont to check out The Museum of Everyday Life. When we arrived after a three-hour trip, it appeared a small, unassuming outbuilding, but inside was a grand variety of obscure curiosities. I’ve never…
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Since it’s gonna be a gloomy weather day in Vermont, I figured I may as well shove breakfast down my throat and get to work on some quote posts. I actually succeeded in this venture. Somehow I managed to write two entire 1000+ word Quote Posts before a painful brain fog set in. I was…
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Yesterday, with enough long overdue SEO maintenance out of the way, I did manage to work through a lot of my sports card resource posts, albeit sifting through many links either dead, co-opted, or inactive. [Future me: I still have some of these posts over on Obscure Curiosities.] I also began to outline my massive…
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With a lengthy shopping jaunt to Saratoga Springs, I didn’t get much reading or watching in… Our trip included Home Depot, Target, and Healthy Living Market. It all went great, except for some nasty locally sourced pickles that tasted like bleach. The 11th Beavis and Butthead episode of the Paramount Plus reboot’s first season got…
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Apparently, stackable washer and dryer sets aren’t made with short people in mind. I was trying to help Emily with the dryer, only to discover I can’t properly operate it without getting on my tiptoes. I felt a little twinge in the left side of my neck yesterday… It felt a little off all afternoon…
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These Writers Notebook entries are a conscious decision-making process to better organize my often orphaned and scattered thoughts into a much more streamlined form than just sticking them in a long, scrolling document where they will just sit and stew for years at a time. This way, I can give context to the ideas. Rather…
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I woke up this morning already in a bad way… After a regular morning shower I admitted to Emily I was having a particularly rough morning and needed a quick hearty serving of eggs and my vegan mozzarella cheese shreds to get energized enough to hammer out two Pokemon posts I’d set up to complete…
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Niagara Falls, New York is a place many associate with romance. It’s considered to be an important vacation destination, and it’s regarded by many as a truly impressive spectacle as a natural wonder. Now, yes, it’s particularly impressive from a practical power generation standpoint. But, when I had the chance to beat the crowds and…