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Mandatory Flu shots are being considered in a county in Utah. Fox News has been reporting on this for the last few days. As I see it, this is just another indicator of America's tendency toward socialism, to blindly allow the government to control all aspects of everyday life.

But I don't want to get myself all worked up about that. Not at this time, anyway. I have too many pressing projects in the works right now.

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The AWAD word for today is cozen.

cozen (KUHZ-uhn)
verb tr.: To trick or deceive.

The origin of the word is not certain. It is perhaps from French cousiner, in the sense of one claiming to be a cousin to derive a benefit from the relationship. According to another theory, it is derived from obsolete Italian cozzonare, from Italian cozzone (horse trader), from Latin cocio (dealer). The word cousin is also slang for someone gullible.

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Currently I am working on a short-story for the Halloween story-writing contest sponsored by Writers, the finished submission to be entered before the last week of this month.

And I am frantically preparing my rough outline for a complete novel I'll be writing as a part of the NaNoWriMo competition, to be started on November 1 and ending the last day of that month. At least 50,000 (unedited) words in a month. That's quite a challenge.


It is perfectly okay to write garbage
. . . as long as you edit brilliantly.
--C. J. Cherryh

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Rensselaer Adventures reports some light frost for October 5 and the blog has some photos of this year's OctoberFest 2010 in my old hometown of Rensselaer, IN. There are probably few readers who will find that of interest, but that's okay. I do. The Ritz Theater sign in the pictures brings back memories of my early years in Rensselaer (1939 - 1980) even though the Ritz back then was located around the corner and down the block on Washington Street. What is now the Ritz was then the Palace Theater.

Times they are a'changin'.


"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
-Will Rogers

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