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Thursday, April 6, 2017

Old Farts Have More Fun...

TED TALKS If you haven’t seen one on PBS or heard one on NPR, or listened to one at your local senior center, then you may not know that TED stands for Technology Entertainment Design. Or maybe it’s Technology Education Design. The presentations are limited to 18 or 20 minutes, generally by an... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

TWITTERPATED

It might have been the Disney movie “Bambi” where the word twitterpated was first used to describe that lovelorn unfocused mind-boggle that pops up in nesting season. It’s why the birds fly in circles and rush madly collecting straw and bits of fluff to make their nests. We’ve had a pair of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

It's in the book:

Blackwater, by Jeremy Scahill. In the news today we have all the thrills of a spy novel: mercenaries, U.S. based military contractors acting as ops-for-hire to set up a a covert meet-and-greet between certain Americans and Russian agents in a neutral Middle-Eastern city for a so-called “business”... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 3, 2017

Baseball

The boys of summer got their season off to a great start yesterday; the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs 4-3 on a perfect spring day. The Cards-Cubs matchup is always the first game of the season, the rivalry between the two teams long-standing. In Beautiful Downtown Mundane – a southern... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 2, 2017

Did I Tell You About Dora?

Some time back I remember griping in this forum about loud Dora. I’m thinking she’s a bit deaf, and that she yawps at high-decibel levels because she can’t hear – or else she just wanted to make everybody listen to her. Bugged me. So a couple weeks ago now there was a terrible tragedy. A couple in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, April 1, 2017

Comfort and Relief

Last October when my Sis Rose lost her husband of nearly sixty years, she adapted to the loss with her usual stoicism and was the rock their children needed. He’d been dealing with a Parkinson’s-like deterioration, so she’d been more and more a caregiver – he was 87 and scheduled in for spinal... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 31, 2017

WORD OF THE DAY: THICK

As in, Thick as a Brick. Uncomprehending. Unable to grasp meaning.. I told her it was a novel based on a real murder. I told her the killer turned himself in to authorities, that he was haunted by his wife's ghost. In my recapitulation of the sorry situation it was abundantly clear except, of course... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 23, 2017

APRIL FOOLS - conclusion

Fred came back the next week and the week after that, and much of our time together was spent driving around the countryside. Most of the time we took Rose and Jim along. One Saturday night, after we’d turned in I remembered I hadn’t brushed my teeth, so I got up in my pajamas and went to the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

APRIL FOOLS part 2

When we got up into the higher elevations near park’s lodge, the snow alongside the road and parking lots was piled at least eight feet high, but the air was warm – we left our jackets in the car and ran around in shirt sleeves. After a brief look-see, we went into the lodge, wandered through the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

APRIL FOOLS

Fred Crow proposed to me on April Fool’s Day, 1950. He’d driven down to Salkum from Olympia on Friday after he got off work at the State of Washington’s printing office in Olympia. He was twenty and I was fifteen – a sophomore at Mossyrock High at the time. I wasn’t really into dating at that time,... Sign in to see full entry.

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