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I read the morning Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on Sunday mornings (that's the only day of the week I get it). First I drag the junk out (like classifieds, real estate, and glossy ads), perusing the front pages of each news section to see if there's anything I want to go back and read later. I see in the Target ad there's an interesting cabinet for sale that will work in my garage, maybe I'll get 3 or 4 of them. Looks like the Wisconsin Badgers win over Minnesota is worth reading, also an article about a guy losing weight. Read the funnies. Throw the junk away.

In my email every day, I receive the New York Times headlines email: Top stories, International, National, Washington, Business, Technology, Editorials, and Op Ed. I always look over the headlines and today's interesting Op Ed was about finding an original, long-lost Beethoven manuscript. I clicked the link and went to the NYT website. It didn't have enough info, so I typed "Grosse Fuge" manuscript into Google and found the main NYT article that showed a media slideshow with narration and photos of the manuscript.

At breakfast I read a Daily Bread devotional, and one from the Institute for Creation Research. That one's pretty interesting to me, it's about Jesus as teacher.

Now I finish my breakfast, back at my computer, and flip over to my OS X Widgets and read over my favorite comics. I use the very cool WIMIC widget to view: B.C., Rose is Rose, Garfield, Wizard of ID, Animal Crackers, Dilbert, Calvin & Hobbes, Foxtrot, Frank & Ernest, and a couple of others.

While I am looking at my widgets, I notice the precipitation map shows we probably won't have rain, and the weather forecast widget says maybe rain tomorrow. I click on the CNN Headlines widget to refresh the headlines, and note thankfully that the votes in Iraq are being counted. None of the headlines interest me enough to click on them, so I'm done with that for the time being.

All this before 7:30 am.