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Showing posts with label vicissitudes of life. Show all posts

Thinking through the Aftermath . . .

>> Sunday, March 13, 2011

Daughter # 3, the one whose superpowers, she freely concedes, include a propensity to melodrama, called me Friday night, and despite her pretense at initial small talk, I instantly sensed the tears in her voice. Against a background of final-semester stress (thinking ahead to writing board exams), her response to the catastrophic images of the Japanese earthquake's damage was not surprising.

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Stronger through Adversity?

>> Thursday, March 10, 2011

So let's see,Pater had the boat taken in for its annual motor check-up and conditioning and found that the (saltwater) corrosion noted last year had accelerated and it was time to replace. So we've done that, but let me tell you that 50hp. 4-strokes are not cheap. Not. Added for clarification: Ours is a commuter boat, for getting back and forth from our island home to town where we work and shop

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Power Outage on the Island . . .

>> Thursday, February 17, 2011

Our power winked out several times this morning, waiting for several minutes before it announced its return in a flurry of appliance squawks, beeps, and blinking lights. I'm half-poised now for it to switch off again, taking my internet connection away along with the promise of hot liquids. Pater is getting the fire going in our wood stove, so should a longer outage ensue we'll have heat and will

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Not for Want of a Nail -- One More Running Post

>> Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Note that dirty line running from the sole of my runner along the side of my shoe across that central stretch of mesh -- and the puncture mark on the sole below it -- where the nail was removed.So, turns out when you run 21.1 kilometres at a not-too-bad pace while you still have a slightly chesty cough, that cough will get worse and you might feel as if you have a very bad cold. Of course, "you"

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