(Nothing like badly-written prose, first thing in the morning.)
Dear Lenneth,
You are my friend, and
You are now 300 miles away.
This is but one-tenth of the distance
That I moved away three years ago,
But is quite substantially farther
Than walking to meet you
At the corner of Palmer and Hogan.

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In my grandfather’s day, Big Blue was IBM, where he was a troubleshooter on the first mainframe computer systems. In my younger days, Big Blue (preceded by “Go”) referred to Mount Shasta High School, as one of our school colors. Now, Blue is a piece of plastic which I have just succeeded in applying for, [...]

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See Danielle. See Danielle not cleaning up the house. See Danielle not working.
See Danielle read her dailies and eat half a can of Blue Diamond Smokehouse Almonds instead.

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Just thought I’d share two Da Vinci Code vignettes:
While standing in line at the grocery store tonight, seen on the May 30 issue of Woman’s World:
Lose a pound a day on The Da Vinci Code Diet!
While checking out at Barnes & Noble tonight:
Johan: “Look, neepoo!” [holds up yet ANOTHER magazine article about Mary Magdalene and [...]

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From inside the wrapper of a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups package:
Candy is a treat. Please consume in moderation.
Gee, thanks, Mr. Hershey, for telling me what to do. >>;;

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Thanks to emergency TAFL hiring, emergency changes that the client didn’t tell me were emergencies, and an emergency of “OMG something’s broken on Big Local Client’s site, and has been for a while, but nobody’s said anything” …well, my focus is lost. Cutting my losses and heading out for a grocery trip to Redding. Bah [...]

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Jon took the morning off so we could go up to the house, get the bedrooms measured for carpet, and rewire our main phone jack. We then went up to Yreka to pick out a new carpet for our master bedroom, put in our order (OMG, $_$; ) and set up installation dates. We decided [...]

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