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I started planning my trip to Montreal a year ago. My friends and I had all read every Louise Penny mystery, and the lure of French-speaking Quebec was powerful. We wanted to practice our French, eat really good bread, see St. Joseph's Oratory, and at least in my case, visit the John Fluevog store on Rue St. Denis. And half the fun was learning about the city before we got there.

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Online cloud services are ready wherever you are, as long as you’re connected to the Internet. They save you time and worry by automatically saving and some even keep records of past revisions. These programs enable you to share a live copy of your work. Some, like Google Drive, allow for simultaneous editing. Because these are in the ‘cloud’ they will automatically sync your most recent activity to any modern device– across phone, tablet, laptop, or computer.

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Use the right tool for the job.

This seems like an obviously true statement. Yet, we often keep doing things the same way we always have, even when the circumstances have changed. Things change and I do too, just not at the same pace. I have used the copy/paste technique at my computer for years. And it has served me well, but I'm saying hello to the new tool in my toolbox, the Microsoft Snipping Tool. Okay, it's not so new, just new to me.

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While I was training for the Chicago Marathon I think my running shoes covered every street in Des Plaines. Once in a while a patron will tentatively come up to me in the library and say that they think they saw me run past their house and bolder patrons have yelled out to me in the parking lot asking why I'm not in my running clothes.

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Not yet done your 2013 federal and state income taxes? Need help? Don't panic. Read on.

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