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Shaken, Not Stirred: Keep your opinions to yourself, part 1.

July 31, 2016
Shaken, Not Stirred: Keep your opinions to yourself, part 1.

#ShakenNotStirred Shaken, Not Stirred. A blog by Jim Bond. No, the title of this blog is not self admonition. It’s to interruptive, disruptive parents. We’re all enjoying summer. The season of children’s baseball games, community theatre, dance lessons, martial arts, piano instruction, and a variety of other activities designed to keep youngsters active during their summer vacation. This is not…

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Shaken, Not Stirred: Copy and paste.

July 24, 2016
Shaken, Not Stirred: Copy and paste.

#ShakenNotStirred #MasonCountyPress Shaken, Not Stirred. A blog by Jim Bond. Ctrl C Ctrl V No, no, no. This is not what you think. It’s not about political convention snafus. Today’s story is about different meanings of ‘copy and paste’, or perhaps more appropriately, ‘cut and paste’. Recently, I’ve resumed writing and scripting some short videos and television commercials, an activity…

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Shaken, Not Stirred. The cell phone rant — you knew it was coming.

July 17, 2016
Shaken, Not Stirred. The cell phone rant — you knew it was coming.

#ShakenNotStirred #MasonCountyPress Shaken, Not Stirred. A blog by Jim Bond. Cell phones. Oh, you knew I’d get to this one… Symbiosis, according to dictionary.com: [sim-bee-oh-sis]  2. psychiatry. a relationship between two people in which each person is dependent upon and receives reinforcement, whether beneficial or detrimental, from the other. OK, so why did I use the second definition, dealing with psychiatry to illustrate my point? Because cell phones are driving some of us CRAZY! My first episode of insanity and…

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Life in Circles: Roots & wings, Amy Mortensen.

July 16, 2016
Life in Circles: Roots & wings, Amy Mortensen.

#MasonCountyPeople #LifeInCircles Life In Circles by Stephanie Wagner. Sponsored by Pro-Master Carpet Cleaning, 231-757-9061, promastercarpetcleaning.com. True confession time. This week’s interview feels a little like a cheat. I will readily admit that I chose it so that I could have dedicated time to catch up with an old friend. A beautiful old friend who I haven’t seen in over five…

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Shaken, Not Stirred. Gas mileage.

July 10, 2016
Shaken, Not Stirred. Gas mileage.

#ShakenNotStirred #MasonCountyPress Shaken, Not Stirred. A blog by Jim Bond. “Jim, you’re going to kill yourself!” “Yeah, maybe, but I’ll die knowing that I have a Cadillac that gets 99 miles per gallon” The above conversation actually took place, maybe 20 years ago, after I had related an incident to my small children’s mother. I had just purchased one of…

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