Making coffee & listening to Morning Edition. # Listening to the Friday, 4.10.09, edition of the Bob Edwards Show. The guests were David Broder & Evan Wright. http://tr.im/jC2y # Listening to Season 3, Episode 17 of Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour. Theme is Cats [...]
The gasoline prices at the BP @ Apperson & Colorado in Salem, VA:
Grade Price
Regular $1.839
Mid $1.939
Premium $2.039
Diesel $2.299
Kerosene $3.499
Unleaded prices were down 2 cents per gallon.
No power! #yam Sent on the go from my Peek # The power’s back on. #Yam # Listening to the Thursday, 4.9.09, edition of the Bob Edwards Show. Guests were Jamie Ross, Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden. http://tr.im/jC2y #
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Making coffee & listening to Morning Edition. # Listening to the Wednesday, 4.8.09, edition of the Bob Edwards Show. The guests were Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage & David Kipen. #
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Listening to the Grateful Dead Hour on 101.5 The Planet – http://tr.im/jK07 # Mowing grass # helping my youngest cleanup dog poop # Taking my youngest to dropoff recyclables. At least he likes this chore. #
Not only is there less farmland in Virginia than ever before, but it’s disappearing at a faster rate than ever before.
A Census of Agriculture report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that Virginia lost 521,000 acres of farmland from 2002 to 2007, the largest decline in the past 20 years. That’s more than the [...]
Listening to the Tuesday, 4.7.09, edition of the Bob Edwards Show. The guests were Bob O’Neil & Jedediah Purdy. http://tr.im/jC2y # GoogleReader Shared: Why NPR is Thriving (They’re Not Afraid of Digital Media): NPR sees dig.. http://tr.im/jHq1 # Watching the NFL Draft. #
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Listening to the Monday, 4.6.09, edition of the Bob Edwards Show. The guests were Kati Haycock & Ellis Cose. http://tr.im/jC2y # FriendFeed Like: Dave Winer: Ubuntu 9.04 as slick as Windows 7, Mac OS X. http://tr.im/jBOa (via.. http://tr.im/jCgn # My wife just called from the [...]
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Making coffee & listening to Morning Edition. # Listening to the Friday, 4.3.09, edition of the Bob Edwards Show. The guests were David Broder & Scott Hicks. http://tr.im/iY2I # FriendFeed Like: Leo Laporte: DailyTech – Time Warner, Embarq Fight to Outlaw 100 Mbps Community.. http://tr.im/jwfX [...]
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The ACC Women’s Lacrosse Championships will be played at Virginia Tech on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday.
Roanoke College is hosting the ODAC Women’s Lacrosse Championship Tournament. The Quarterfinals were played yesterday. The Semifinals will be played Saturday, and the championship is scheduled for Sunday.
The ODAC Women’s Softball Tournament will be played at Salem’s James I. [...]
The morning after Norfolk Southern Corp. said its first-quarter profit fell 39 percent, company executives said the railroad hasn’t faced an economic slowdown like this in any of their memories.
The plunge in freight volume is about double the drop seen at the peak of the 1981-82 recession.
The drop in railway volume ranged from 48 percent [...]
Making coffee & listening to Morning Edition. # Listening to 4.2.09, edition of the Bob Edwards Show. Guests: Bonni Cohen, Kathryn Wallace, Steve Winick & Nancy Groce. http://tr.im/iY2I # Listening to Hearing Voices: HV053- Ranchers. http://tr.im/jqgk # Listening to NPR: 03-31-2009 Fresh [...]
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GSI Commerce is closing its call center in Martinsville. 279 people will lose their jobs.
Martinsville already holds Virginia’s worst jobless rate of 20.2 percent.
Read (Roanoke Times)
Making coffee & listening to Morning Edition. # Listening to the Wednesday, 4.1.09, edition of the Bob Edwards Show. The guests were Erik Reece & Dave Zirin. http://tr.im/iY2I # Listening to NPR: What If Marijuana Were Legal? Possible Outcomes. http://tr.im/jkqu # Listening [...]