Lee Hebert - Ramblings of an open mind in a closed box

When Five Minutes Felt Like Five Years

I remember being in third grade and getting my first 100 on my spelling test.  Like any other perfectly ordinary child, I started to dance with excited exuberation.  The only problem was that class wasn't over yet.  Actually, it was the middle of the day, and I soon became a specticle and a massive classroom distraction.  As my punishment for introducing a joyous crazy little dance to the middle of my isle, my teacher put me in the corner for five minutes.

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The Law of The Loose Rule

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What Fuels Other Stuff

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Doctors Orders

 

 

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Our Christmas Tree Is Up and Sparkly

 

 

 

Our Christmas Tree is up and sparkly

     
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What to expect when you move next to a lake

Ok.  Over the summer we moved next to Lake Houston.  I expected the usual water based pests; however, I never expected a pelican.  Letha actually took these pics while I was at work.  She actually risked her life by going outside to capture the animal.

   
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Sometimes you come to a fork in the road and have to make a decision...

I don’t know if you can tell, but this picture was taken in the middle of rush hour traffic.  I am in the middle (non-moving) lane and the left lane wasn’t moving either.  The only lane with any life was the right one.  I was thinking about merging over into the right lane; however, something told me it might be a bad idea.

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Trip to the Pumkin Patch

Last Sunday, The family went to Brookshire to frequent Dewberry Farms.  A pleasant farmish type place that has 1,990lb of fun, a real pumpkin patch, Christmas trees, and honey.  They work hard at commercializing this place and it shows.  We had an abundance of entertainment even though my head now looks like a misshapen tomato, and I dropped my snow cone.  Some would say that the sunburn is a badge of recent merriment, so the only thing bad was I dropped my snow cone.  Only one thing to complain about in an eight hour family outing with all three children…it went exceptionally well.

                   
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Don't forget the the...What?


For those who read my ramblings, you may or may not know that at the age of 16 I almost died from cancer.  I had two emergency blood transfusions followed by four months of intense chemo therapy (One month in the hospital and one month at home to recuperate...twice...in a row).  Before treatment started, my doctor told me the possible side effects of the poison he was going to give me.  They were:

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PDF Mod Edits Multi-Page PDFs in Linux [Downloads]

By Kevin Purdy, 8:00 AM on Fri Aug 14 2009, 300 views (Edit, to draft, Slurp)

Linux: Linux is fully capable of scanning, processing, and otherwise working with PDF documents, but some of the default tools aren't exactly new-user-friendly. PDF Mod is a straight-forward tool for adding and subtracting pages, exporting images, and other document tweaks.

The software, written in just over a week last month, lays out all the pages of PDF in a grid, then lets you click on a page to rotate or remove it. You can select even, odd, or matching pages throughout a PDF, extract images from a document into a folder, and re-save your document as a new, fixed PDF. That's all it does, but for those whose spirits droop a bit when faced with the myriad options and buttons in XSane or other PostScript/PDF tools, you'll dig PDF Mod's simplicity.

PDF Mod is available as a free source package for Linux systems that's fairly easy to compile; the Lazy Ubuntu blog linked below has a copy-paste terminal guide for Ubuntu users.

PDF Mod [Gabriel Burt's Blog via Lazy Ubuntu]

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