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Friday, May 3, 2013

NoahsOldeTyme Website Crashes: High Volume of Ark Queries

They're out of inventory at JohnBoats. Water's two or three feet deep on Grafton's main drag, but those shop owners had fair warning and moved their inventories to the second floor. The Mississippi comes up nearly every spring to wash away early tourist season and leave enough debris to keep the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Sci Fi - old style

Philip K. Dick was a science fiction writer, sometimes brilliant and compelling, sometimes just strange. He wrote short stories and novels that have been adapted into movies, among them "Paycheck," "Minority Report," "Blade Runner" and "Total Recall." He was fifty-three when he died in 1982 and some... Sign in to see full entry.

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I refuse to play ain't it awful today.

I'm not griping about the weather, or the endless trial of Jodi Arias in Arizona, or the dumb decisions of the Boston bomber's college roommates. I won't dwell on the May Day riots in Seattle's Capitol Hill area or the gang shootouts with the cops that happened overnight in neighborhoods in the next... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Short Sprummer - Two (count 'em) two days for cats' sake.

It was 80-something yesterday, bright sunshine here in Middlewisp. It will warm up nicely today, too - and the leaves on the maples out front have bloomed large enough to make shade just when it's time for porch-sitting. We'll get ten minutes - maybe - while the halfway decent weather holds. It's... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

The Decline of the American Empire...

Years ago when I was doing typing for dollars to supplement my insufficient paycheck, I typeset the manuscript for a guy in the Public Administration department at SIU. That publisher demanded it typed on a certain form, camera-ready. He was teaching and didn't think he could meet the deadline. I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 29, 2013

Say Howdy to the Queen

I almost didn’t go to the library yesterday. Big crowds and minding my manners make me feel closed in and tense. It was not my day to work in Carnegie’s, and there was a big party scheduled downstairs to honor the Chief Librarian who retired after 33 years. Everybody was scheduled to be there: board... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 28, 2013

My nephew dropped in...

He was here about two hours here at the midpoint on his road trip between Salem, Oregon and the beaches of North Carolina. Larry and his old buddy Pete stopped about half an hour west of here to visit some of Pete's folks - spent their get-together at the Cracker Barrel there. So by the time they... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, April 26, 2013

ELF Schedule Update

Meg called a couple days ago, said the ELF schedule needs to be retyped at once! Well, she didn't SAY at once, but when Meg says jump I make like a frog. She's right. The pencil corrections and scratchouts were messing up the look of my neat table, which is set up like a weekly calendar, Sunday thru... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

School Days...

It was a day pretty much like today: sun came up about an hour before we had to run for the big yellow bus, mom was hacking her lungs out in the kitchen, setting a match to the kindling, rattling the percolator under the kitchen faucet to make the first pot of coffee. She'd sit there in her robe and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 22, 2013

Strawberry Fields Forever...

I miss the '70s, the hippies, the Beatles, the energy and optimism we felt. Everyone had an opinion, nobody was shooting up schools and terrorism was something we had to look up in the dictionary. At least it seems that way to me. It was tie dye shirts, necklaces strung together, big peace symbols,... Sign in to see full entry.

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