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Your Blog Won’t Make A Year

Get excited! Powerogre.com is now a year old, a year wiser, and statistically past the blog failure zone (most blogs die after 6 months, I have no source, go Google it). There have been some ups and some downs (literally, powerogre.com was 404 over a week in September 2010). Through it all, the article’s kept coming and so did the readers (all 15 of you).

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5 Rules For The Weekend

Should there really be rules for the weekend? It’s debatable, but I’m not going to let that stop me. The weekend is a special time; it’s a 2 day holiday that happens every week. It’s a time to relax, to get stuff done you were not able to accomplish during the week. The weekend should not be wasted, but neither should it be used as just another Tuesday or Wednesday…

5 Rules For The Movie Theater

I have been known to take in a movie in the theater on occasion, and when I do, I invariably end up paying more attention to the people around me than to the actual movie. Maybe this is due to the fact that people act like they are home on their couch watching a movie, instead of in a theater with several hundred other people. I had some free time…

5 Rules For Talking On The Phone In Public

In case you have not noticed, cell phones have reached the saturation point in today’s society. Everyone who wants a phone has a phone, and some people have two or three phones. People talk on them in every place imaginable, from doctor’s offices to the bathroom. There is not a place with a cell signal in which people won’t use their phone. Sometimes it just gets to be too much…

5 Rules For Driving A Manual Shift Vehicle

Driving a manual or stick shift vehicle requires a little something extra. Once upon a time, all vehicles were manual shift. Those were the days of “3 on the tree” and “4 on the floor”, a reference to the location, and number of gears. Today, there are many people who have never heard those terms, they think “4 on the floor” means ‘don’t lean back in your chair at the…