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  • Don’t It Make You Want to Go “Boom”?

    Don’t It Make You Want to Go “Boom”?

    Though this is indeed a bit morbid, I couldn’t think of a better place to start off something called The Boomer Blog. If it’s gonna’ start with a bang, it might as well be a big one. It shall begin with them, or at least our generation’s innate fear of them.

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  • Welcome to the Boomer Blog

    Welcome to the Boomer Blog

    Hello. My name is Ric and I’m a Boomer. In fact, being born in 1950, I always had the feeling that year was peak boomer”. It was ground zero for a population explosion the likes of which the country had never seen. The people who returned from World War II, came home and reproduced like…

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  • Construction in progress

    Construction in progress

    Untouched for countless years, rgetter.com is finally becoming active again.

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  • The Woke vs. The Sleepers

    The Woke vs. The Sleepers

    Why you can be proud to be woke

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  • Hello! (again)

    Decades ago, I built a website by stumbling around Adobe Dreamweaver. It wasn’t half bad and got a few viewers. After the initial flush of success, it lay dormant and became embarrassingly outdated. Five years ago, I gave WordPress a try in a subdomain (go.rgetter.com–the “go” part is the subdomain). After the initial flush of…

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  • OMG, my first post!

    OMG, my first post!

    Getting started in blogging, particularly being new to running a content management system is incredibly intimidating. Getting the blog set up was like the first time I put on ice skates. I had read everything I needed to and acquired all the necessities. Instead of skates, socks and a hockey stick, it was a sub-domain,…

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