When I was a kid, Fisher Price, legos, and Lincoln Logs were king. Thankfully, I have always liked building things and putting things together, so I loved the Lincoln Logs. I also had several FP items, and some hot wheels cars too. A lot of my friends had Barbie dolls, but I never liked them, …

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Ken Gilbert. He inspired me to get out of my shell and not be shy. Without him, I would not be as successful as I am today. He was a salesman for a national seed company, and we would go to trade shows and meet tons of people. Since I was a little, or a …

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Some of the questions I get on tours make me wonder if they are just messing with me, or what.  After giving about 72 tours, I have come across a few that I thought I'd share.  Enjoy 1.  There are two pipes sticking up in the middle of the hallway floor on a floor that …

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Tours are my life, right now anyway.  I am a building designer, working with architects and others to make my hospital's dreams become reality.  As part of this, we've started touring people through the large addition that we've been working on for the past six years.  It's been in design that long, although we didn't …

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Today, I mailed three books to their new owners.  It's a sweet but sad thing.  It's like saying goodbye to friends and enemies at the same time.  You spend so many hours of your free time with them, that you feel like you know them, you know their other book family members, and you know …

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