{"id":18934,"date":"2016-07-02T11:10:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T18:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=18934"},"modified":"2016-07-02T11:10:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T18:10:31","slug":"saturday-bag-o-dryness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=18934","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Bag o’ Dryness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"M028\"Up early this morning. Took a shower, toweled\u00a0off, put on clean dry clothes, went outside to clean up dog poop and replenish bird feeders. Note to birds: no disrespect intended. Note to self: next time, shower after<\/em>\u00a0outside chores are done.<\/p>\n

You guessed it: a muggy morning in Tucson. You\u00a0all know the delightful feeling of breaking into a sweat the moment you\u00a0walk outdoors. It’s why, after nine straight years of living in the tropics (Florida, Okinawa, Hawaii), we moved to the desert (Las Vegas and now Tucson). Even here, though, there’s a monsoon season. Enough of that. I’m back indoors, the AC is working well,\u00a0and my T-shirt’s\u00a0dry again.<\/p>\n

My latest book review column<\/a> just popped up\u00a0on the Daily Kos<\/a> website. I started cross-posting selected\u00a0Paul’s Thing entries to DKos in 2012, ones DKos readers might find interesting: political* commentary, posts about airplanes and aviation, posts about books. On DKos, posts are called diaries, a name dating back to the early days\u00a0of web logs (which were often\u00a0described as online diaries).<\/p>\n

My book review and banned book diaries appear in a DKos sub-group called Readers & Book Lovers, where\u00a0I have a regular publication slot: Saturdays at 9:00 AM Mountain. Not that I post book diaries every Saturday at 9 AM\u2014I’m nowhere near that prolific a reader or writer\u2014but that when I do submit a new book diary\u00a0it goes into a queue and doesn’t publish until the next Saturday morning rolls around. If I submit two at once, I can designate one to publish next Saturday morning, the other to publish a week or two later. My political and aviation diaries publish as soon as I click the submit button, just as they do on this blog.<\/p>\n

*Yes, I said the P-word. Daily Kos is a lefty site and makes no bones about it. My politics are generally left, but I’m socially conservative and pro-military, and some of my gung-ho go-to-war aviation diaries upset sensitive DKos readers (I take some joy in that). Otherwise, left is my side of the political spectrum, and like DKos, I’ve never made any bones about that.<\/p>\n

Lefty that I am, though, I have a question: am I the only one who thinks the “T” in “LGBT” doesn’t quite belong? As the cut & paste\u00a0crowd on\u00a0Facebook is\u00a0always saying, let’s see who reads this.<\/p>\n

Donna loves her new car. I parked\u00a0it in the garage yesterday and resigned myself to leaving\u00a0the\u00a0two-year-old\u00a0truck in the driveway. I wonder if the homeowners’ association will let us build an awning alongside the garage. Hate to see a good paint job start to peel, and boy do you see a lot of that in the Southwest!<\/p>\n

My dermatologist found another basal cell carcinoma. It’s in the corner formed by\u00a0my right eyebrow,\u00a0the upper side of my\u00a0nose, and the inner edge\u00a0of my right eyelid. Donna hates\u00a0the scars I bear from previous\u00a0skin cancer surgeries, and since this one is so close to my eye I asked for a referral to a dermatologist who specializes in something called the Mohs technique. I’m to have it\u00a0removed later this month, and with any luck the scar will be tiny\u00a0and my eyelid won’t be affected. I hope my regular dermatologist\u00a0won’t hold this betrayal\u00a0against me. Sure, he’s a professional … but he’s also human.<\/p>\n

Our dog Schatzi is curled up on the pillow on the\u00a0desktop, right by the\u00a0keyboard. I’ve been in blogging heaven the past hour. Every blogger should have a desktop companion.<\/p>\n

There’s another bicycle hare & hounds ride on the horizon, and it’s time for me to track down the\u00a0designated hare and remind him of his obligations. Other than that, there’s not a lot on my plate today … I should be able to catch up with some reading.<\/p>\n

Stay cool and dry, wherever you are, and may your air conditioner never falter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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