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I spent last night at the Stately Raven book store in Findlay Ohio. The store is an independent bookstore which opened up in a converted church building and recently won an award for the “Best Bookstore in Ohio”. The store has a really cool science fiction room which, unlike most other local places, is [...]

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Tomorrow we make our first of several trips to Cedar Point for the season.
Our first task will be to get in line for the Maverick, Cedar Points new Thrill Coaster.  More than likely we will wait  2 and a half to 3 hours to ride the 2.5 minute coaster.  I can’t wait to give it [...]

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I came across this useful site Schooldelay.com which works with schools to send text message, email and RSS alerts to students and parents when their school is canceled or delayed. The push factor of this site is leaps and bounds above the method we used to use to find out if school was canceled [...]

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WHY o WHY does it have to be so hard to find out information about the individuals running for governor, senate and the house in Ohio?
The closest I have come is to find the Hancock County Board of Elections site which lists the individuals who are running however a separate Google search is needed to [...]

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Tomorrow, September 30th is Free Museum Day, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute.
The following Ohio Museums are participating:
Archives of the History of American Psychology
Akron
Children’s Museum of the Valley
Youngstown
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Akron
Oberlin Heritage Center
Oberlin
The Dayton Art Institute
Dayton
Check out all the info including free admission card(printable) and location information on Free Museum Day.

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Tonite we got hit up by a sales rep from Direct Subscription Services, or DSS Inc.  The individual was able to talk us into purchasing a subscription from him at what seemed an inflated price but at the time appeared to be only slightly over retail.  After he left I checked the online price for [...]

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If like me you are longing for a chance to ride the roller coasters at America’s Rocking RollerCoast, then head on over and check out two webcams of Cedar Point. One of the webcams is place on the midway giving some fun shots of the skyride,where you can watch for rambunctious teenagers throwing nickels [...]

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Thank you for calling Time and Temperature.  This reading is sponsored by rubbermaid shelving, falling down more often then your your neighborhood alcoholic.  The current time is 5:18 AM, the current temperature inside my apartment is above 90 Degrees F.  Yes somewhere above 90 since thats as high as our thermostat tracks.  This is after [...]

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I found this article on Deadspin.com, WCKY out of Cleveland Ohio did an investigative report on pornography at the local library. The results are frightening in a sense if you are a parent but otherwise hilarious. What boggles my mind is that Mike who was caught pleasuring himself in the public library had [...]

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Ohio has many festivals that begin taking place almost weekly throughout the smaller towns and villages in Ohio. One of the upcoming festivals features the Lakeside daisy, which grows in a quarry in the Marblehead Ohio. This weekend Marblehead is hosting the daisy festival which spotlights this rare flower’s beauty and survival. [...]

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