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About travellinbaen

I'm a 40 year old lawyer living in Ridgeland, Mississippi. I'm several years and a couple hundred miles removed from most of my old running buddies so I started the blog to provide an outlet for many of the observations and ideas that used to be the subjects of our late night/happy hour/halftime conversations and arguments.

Spending Money

Posted on August 20, 2008 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day     “It’s clearly a budget.  It’s got a lot of numbers in it.”     George W. Bush Paul B. Farrell is a financial columnist with over 1000 articles to his credit.  He appears regularly on all … Continue reading →

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A Customer Service Conversation

Posted on August 18, 2008 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day     “If you’re looking at it right there on your computer why can’t you just send me my check?”     Unknown Old Guy from earlier today TB continues his series of recorded conversations today with an … Continue reading →

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Global Warming Slowed by Manmade Global Cooling?

Posted on August 15, 2008 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day     “It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.”       –Yogi Berra I was forwarded an email today including the transcript of a NOVA episode from PBS.  To confirm its validity, I went to the NOVA … Continue reading →

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On Perfection

Posted on August 12, 2008 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day       “Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.”        –William Shakespeare  from King Lear Folly Beach, South Carolina, is an imperfect beach town.  The sand has a little to high a percentage … Continue reading →

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It Ain’t All Champagne and Caviar

Posted on August 11, 2008 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day     “The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”       Niccolo Machiavelli There are a few things about a vacation, and one to the … Continue reading →

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Travellin with TB

Posted on August 10, 2008 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day      “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”     –St. Augustine TB finds himself this peaceful Sunday morning in Folly Beach, South Carolina watching the birds and the … Continue reading →

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Birthdays

Posted on August 7, 2008 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day       “Time flies like an arrow.  Fruit flies like a banana.”       –Groucho Marx TB dreads the inevitable.  As a kid, my times of greatest stress were sitting in a classroom on poetry recital … Continue reading →

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Guantanamo Terror

Posted on August 6, 2008 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day     “We can only trust that the next subjects … will include cooks, tailors, and cobblers without whose support terrorist leaders would be left unfed, unclothed, and unshod, and therefore rendered incapable of planning or executing … Continue reading →

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A Great Bar

Posted on August 5, 2008 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day       “It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one’s present or future thirst, the excellence of the wine, or any other reason.”     Latin Proverb … Continue reading →

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Brett Favre

Posted on August 5, 2008 by travellinbaen

Quote of the Day      “Enjoying living was learning to get your money’s worth and knowing when you had it.”       –Jake Burns, in “The Sun Also Rises”; Ernest Hemingway Why is the Brett Favre issue so difficult … Continue reading →

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