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Wave Without A Shore

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Jane’s doing fine…

...got hit in the other eye today by a mini-model plane. Sometimes it's just your week. But we think she's fine, and she says she's showing no ill effects. Thank you all for your expressions of concern. I'm being driven slowly crazy by allergy: even wearing glasses,...

Jane's doing fine…

...got hit in the other eye today by a mini-model plane. Sometimes it's just your week. But we think she's fine, and she says she's showing no ill effects. Thank you all for your expressions of concern. I'm being driven slowly crazy by allergy: even wearing glasses,...

This was an Interesting Evening: Jane in the ER…

...from trimming a plant. It seems everything about euphorbias (spurge) is poisonous. She had trimmed the euphorbia we brought in, and began having eye pain. A fast check of the internet turned up "sap in the eye: blindness," seeds--death. Fumes off the living plant...

Our Mariners team (Seattle) has a new manager…

Wedge, who shepherded the Cleveland Indians in 2007. Jane and I are both...I don't say, baseball fans, because we won't watch just any game...but staunch Mariners fans. We really love going to Mariners games at Safeco. We've had two rotten years. And we've got some...

Will books be phasing out in 5 years…after 4000 years of use?

This chap thinks so. And he has some interesting points. demise of books Mostly his argument hinges on the developing world. So you advance literacy in Africa and Asia. You need books. You need a lot of books. A lot of trees... When phones came to Asia, they didn't...

Got the Subaru back and it runs like new.

Dunno if timing chains get worn or what, but it seems peppier. You might think 'racket', replacing a still functional timing chain, but over the years, I've come to believe Subaru when they say at x0,000 miles you should replace x. The car has always run better...

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