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There's no point in living if you can't feel alive. - James Bond

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Oxymoron - Polite French society

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There is a really cute article by a female BBC correspondent who is assigned to Paris. If you've got a few minutes this really is funny: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6205403.stm
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... H Paul Garland at 11:33 AM

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H Paul Garland: Like the Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, I went to Austin High in El Paso, Texas. I moved to California right after high school. Graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1971 with honors. Worked on a master's degree, then to avoid going to Vietnam I joined the U.S. Army to be at 3rd Armored Div HQ in Frankfurt, Germany. I was there for almost 3 years. Bicycled and backpacked a lot in the Swiss Alps. Had some good times, saw some of the world, and grew up a little. I went to law school at U.T. Austin for a while, raised a family, got elected to a minor political position in El Paso, had 3 great wives, owned a Corvette then later a Prius, became a scuba diver, got my private pilot's license including multi-engine and instrument ratings, and lived in the Cajun country of Louisiana for a few years. For 15 years I was the general manager for a food procesing company in Europe. I really enjoyed living in Europe. I'm now retired, and to quote from Martin Luther King, I'm finally "free at last, free at last." I've moved out to the wonderful high desert in the Southwestern city of El Paso, Texas USA.

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Hardystonite Collected in the 1800's by a German scientist

Hardystonite Collected in the 1800's by a German scientist

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Hillsboro, NM, Petroglyph mine

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Fluorite Green from Cornwall, England

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