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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Off The Grid - my "hat" assignment

Times like these I begin to yearn for isolation and invisibility. The web, the all-seeing eye is everywhere. "They" know what you buy, where you go, who you see, when you sleep and wake up. Maybe they know what you think. Unless you're two-faced and say the opposite, in which case your actions may... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Hats Off!

We No Borders writers assigned ourself to write something on hats. The deadline is coming up. My first idea was the old horse opera idea that the good guys wear white hats. Or maybe something about being eligible (long-since) for membership in the Red Hat Society. Yesterday on Facebook I asked for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 6, 2013

Carbon Copies

At the library yesterday I was talking to Corrine, a 14-year-old who's been growing up under my eyes. She's got one of those three-point dads who brings his kids to the library every weekend, attends their games and recitals, makes a point of being an admirable role model. She and her brother are... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Going Away Party

Nicki rented the mother-in-law apartment over my son's garage for the past school year, doing her teaching internships and finishing up her masters in education. She's the daughter of one of Guy's high school buddies, kind of like a niece to him, and he's kind of taken her under his wing, helped her... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 4, 2013

Get your kicks on Route 66

Wiley's comment that he'd driven the iconic Route 66 of TV fame - in Arizona and California - made me think further about the road. Couple weeks ago our little burg actually planted a roadside memorial complete with photos of local wayside attractions that once 'lived' in and on the fringes of this... Sign in to see full entry.

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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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