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What’s going on in my life
I rode my motorcycle to El Paso and back over the weekend; east on Friday, west on Sunday, racking up just over 700 miles. Interstate all the way, smooth, almost boring. If you’ve taken I-10 across southern New Mexico and Arizona, you know it’s all open desert . . . fly-over country, as they say. […]
The paint up under our eaves and patio roof started flaking, so the guy who repainted our house three years ago is redoing the job. All our outdoor stuff is out in the middle of the yard, and there are paint chips everywhere. But that’s not all: our pool has sprung a leak and the […]
Wow, what an extraordinarily beautiful morning to wake up to! We have an east-facing sliding glass door in our bedroom. It has vertical blinds but we never close them at night, because we like to wake up to the dawn. I knew right away this morning was special — the light was different. When I […]
Yesterday morning I mentioned to Donna that our charcoal-lighting chimney had rusted out. That afternoon I got this email: “Amazon.com recommends Weber 87886 Chimney Starter.” At the coffee shop earlier today our friend Darrell mentioned actor Tom Hanks, and I commented that he and I both went to Sacramento State College. A few minutes ago […]
I grew up hearing the years between 1900 and 1909 called “the aughts,” as in “nineteen-aught-four.” Somehow I doubt that’s what people called them at the time. I bet the people who lived those years had many different names for them, just as we do today for the years between 2000 and 2009. Some call […]
Unconnected thoughts and observations which don’t rate separate blog posts, but when aggregated together might just amount to something: Tasers: This seems like good news, and it comes not a moment too soon: “Police need reasons to believe a suspect is dangerous before firing a Taser and can’t use their stun gun simply because the […]
I remember, as a kid, reading a science fiction story about a future in which working adults are forced to buy, use, wear out, and replace enormous amounts of material goods, their lives an exhausting cycle of consumption imposed on them by the government in order to keep the nation’s economic engine going. Older people, […]