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Thanks For Thanksgiving

Once a year comes a day when we are specifically reminded to give thanks (at least in the United States). Hopefully most of you out there are thankful more than once a year, but if that’s all you can manage then it’s better than nothing. I want to take a minute to list in no particular order some things I personally am thankful for.

  • My beautiful wife

Renting For Life

Houses are cheap! Interest rates are low! Buy a house now! According to the experts (and the idiots) now is a great time to buy a home. Interest rates will never be this low again, or at least that’s what they say, so if you plan on buying, buy now. I hear this over and over from many different sources. People whisper…

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).

It’s…

Twitter Sucks, Or So I Thought.

“So what is that Twitter thing anyway?” This is a question I would ask myself not even a year ago. Like some of you out there, I thought that by avoiding all things social on the web, I was maintaining my anonymity and ensuring that when the internet police started to take people away, they would have nothing on me. Why would I need Twitter anyway? I was sure that…

I’m Working Out…At Home

A large sweaty man, muscle’s bulging out of his size-too-small tank top, slides up next to you; his eyes sweep your less than perfect body in disgust. You give him a nod, and he ignores you, turning to the task at hand, “pumpeen tha ion”. You guessed it; the gym is where this hypothetical situation takes place.

So why don’t I like gyms? If the scenario above did not…