http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog The Les Becker Blog: Writer (fiction, non-fiction, story-telling, memories, screenplays, radioplays, lyrics, ghost-writing, magazine articles, tourism and event promotion) and amateur photographer from Northern Ontario. Looking to escape Northern Ontario. Rescue me. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:46:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2008/11/18/good-god-what-day-is-this/ http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/2008/11/18/good-god-what-day-is-this/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:52:48 +0000 Les beerblogcoffeedancedinnerFluffyidiot childsleepstoriestimework http://lesbecker.com/LesBlog/?p=743

]]> Bright RawTaken March 16, 2008 with Canon PowerShot A550 Rinse and repeat….I’m not kidding, either. My days are like this: get up, eat, shower, dress, eat again, pack a lunch, cross the street to work, where I suck back 8 to 10 cups of coffee, eat one lunch, buy another, eat everybody else’s [...]

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