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A Week To Entered Apprentice
By this time next week, I’ll have joined the Brotherhood of Freemasonry having taken the first degree and become an Entered Apprentice. I’m excited but at the same time a bit nervous as I’m not completely sure of what will be involved. I do have a general idea from seeing Freemasonry specials on Discovery Channel […]
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Freemasons For Dummies – Book Review
This is the first masonic book that I’ve read. Upon deciding to join the fraternity, a good friend of mine who also recently joined brought me over to his house and pulled out his newly acquired masonic library. We are a lot alike in that respect. When we get involved in something new, we want […]
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Deciding To Become A Freemason
I’ve known that the masons exist for years. Unfortunately, that’s about all I’ve known. I knew that they were secretive and that they had the odd looking symbol with the G in the middle but didn’t know what it meant. The few times I spoke to people that were masons and I would ask them […]
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Infertility: Follistim, Ganirelix and Pregnyl, OH MY!
Welcome to infertility drug injections 101… Follistim, Ganirelix and Pregnyl. Soooo, after another unsuccessful month of using Femara with an IUI, we headed off to see Dr. H at North Shore LIJ Center for Human Reproduction for another infertility checkup. He does a quick sonogram and confirms that the room is vacant, a la “no bun in […]
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The right way to buy a rental property
It is very possible to buy a relatively “safe” rental property that will all but guarantee you a steady income and help to make you wealthy in the long term. The keys to success are location, cost versus cash flow, and quality tenants. Buying a rental property is the ultimate savings plan. You can buy […]
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Vosky Call Center (or as I call it – The Skype Box)
This box is amazing. Make skype like your home phone and more. I have now purchased four of these for everyone in my family. I have two installed in Europe and two installed here in the USA. The basic functionality is that it lets you use your home phone to talk on skype. When you […]
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How can I wipe erased data off of a hard drive or folder??
When you delete a file from your hard drive, the file itself is not actually deleted. Instead, windows deleted the reference to the file from the computer’s “table of contents”. This tells the computer that the space on the hard drive taken by that file is now available and can be overwritten. Here’s the catch: […]
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SDHC Flash Card Reader Annoyances
I’m a techie… I’ve come to expect certain things when it comes to technology. Specifically, backwards compatibility. In the old days, you pretty much expected that when you got a new gadget or piece of software, that it would be painful, if not impossible to make it work with your old technology. Nowadays, it’s pretty […]