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If you ever visit Grand Marais, Minnesota, you’ll want to check out Sven & Ole’s Pizza. It’s good pizza. It probably won’t cause you to achieve total enlightenment or anything, but it’s fun to say you’ve been to Sven & Ole’s Pizza.

Grand Marais is on the north shore of Lake Superior, a beautiful part of the world with some great parks, and worth visiting for a lot more than pizza.

I have a few blog posts brewing in my head, but limited time. Tonight I’m trying to get to bed at a reasonable hour, so …

Cell Phone Seduction

The picture here at the top of the post is the cell phone that my wife and I have been using for the past five years. (Well, not this cell phone, but the same model, a Nokia 5120, and we each have our own.)

Pretty old and clunky, huh? They’ve worked great for us. It may not be surprising to hear this from a guy who is interested in “free” software, but I can be frugal about a lot of things. (Cheap! My friends and family might say.) And these phones and our plan have been fairly cheap. They were free through a corporate discount plan and then $30 per month total for both phones and 60 anytime minutes each. We probably average about 5 minutes per month. They’re …

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Hello, again. I feel like I’ve been neglecting you. It’s not from a lack of desire to post here, but lack of time. It seems like there is never enough time, and what time there is, I’m quite effective at whiling away. And then as more time passes, I feel like I need to post something substantive and meaty. But if you’ve been reading movingtofreedom.org, you probably know that I’m not really about deep thoughts. I’m more of a used-to-wanna-be intellectual. I think I’m still kind of a wanna-be, but I’m working on simply being who I am. So here is a post about this and that to keep things going.

I have been spending time reading and …