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October 20, 2015

Brandied Fruit Day
Brandied Fruit was a necessary invention.  Back in the day, before refrigeration, in order to preserve fruit and ensure it would keep longer brandy was mixed with it as a preservative, I'm guessing it didn't hurt that it tasted pretty darn good! Ha!
Make your own brandied fruit
Top vanilla ice cream, pound cake, or angel food cake with it. YUM!

Information Overload Awareness Day
Understanding Information Overload
4 ways to retrain your brain to handle information overload
Death by Information Overload
To take some time off today from info overload try these simple things; instead of emailing make a phone call, refrain from reading all the news sources you normally would, make choices to interact with people voice to voice and face to face instead of through technology.



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