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Trying to set up a business credit card.  Strictly for convenience and to make tax-time simpler.  After we went through the whole blankety-blank application process I have just now got off the phone with a certain large credit card company saying they can't issue a card unless I open a business bank account (that I don't NEED…already have a business checking account that has worked for over a decade now but apparently it's not with the right institution), wait 30 days, then send them the...

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Got a cranky little message from my computer saying my email mailbox was too full.  So I'm trimming things out.  Coming across some misplaced memories.  These photos were taken in Canada on a fishing trip I took with my friend and former ambulance partner Bill and his father Don, who very graciously shared their boats and cabin.  Don just couldn't get over my obsession with catching Northerns.

What a fun trip.  Time stamp says 2003.  Man, time goes screamin' past.

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I remember back when I first heard Chip Taylor…found him through No Depression magazine.  He's a walking trivia bonanza – wrote "Wild Thing" and "Angel of the Morning," is Jon Voight's brother and Angelina Jolie's uncle, brother to one of the world's leading volcano experts – but I stumbled on to him for his Americana-style songwriting on albums like The Living Room Tapes and Seven Days in May and Last Chance.

Anyway.  Here he is popping up in the New York Times.

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…yesterday.

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And grateful for it.

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Up the road from here is Chippewa Falls, home of many fine things including Leinenkugel's beer (which I have never tasted but can spell) and the Freaks & Geeks blog, which very kindly reviewed the show we did recently with QuinnElizabeth.  I'm happy to say the post includes video footage of both QuinnElizabeth and us Long Beds (for the Long Beds clip, look for the highlighted text…the QE video is right up front).  QuinnElizabeth consists of three sisters, and one of the highlights of the...

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Separated at birth?

Tony at work.

Terry at work.

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This post should be 10,000 words long, but there are other deadlines so I'll just stitch up a quick list:

- A thoughtful discussion with Mennonite friends.
- The safe local arrival of an Iraqi family.
- The harmonious talents of my musician friends filling the warm car as I drove through snow and dark.
- My wife's beautiful countenance as she caught an all-too-rare Sunday afternoon nap.
- My two-year old singing along with a song I wrote and – right at the end there – hitting the exact note.
- My n...

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Despite the recent trend, I'm really not going to go through my entire music collection post by post, but: "Can't Stop A Train" by The Derailers.  Twang done smooth.  Sad done classy.  Anguish without wailing.  And let us pause a moment in memory of Uncle Buck.

P.S. and if that leaves you sleepy, git y'some Junior Brown "Freedom Machine" (Even when I take it easy, she still wants to race…).

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Let me begin by saying I truly like this stuff.  Had a mugful after dinner the other night.  Tasted great.  Even had a nice little crema right there at first.  As a matter of fact, I order it in the large size straight from the website. So: I'm a fan, Dandy Blend.

But.

Dandy Blend website (DBW): "tastes like coffee…"

Mike: "Um. No."

DBW: "…without the caffeine"

Mike: "…that's OK, I get that from coffee."

DBW: "can be used in any recipe which calls for instant coffee"

Mike: "…if you don't mind...

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