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Reminder for 2035

I just entered a reminder in my calendar for a day in Oct. 2035: research vaccines for shingles, if we haven’t had one, and consider being vaccinated (since as of Sep. 2013 vaccines can only be taken if one is over 60).(we’ll see if that calendar reminder survives 22 years …

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Your husband is cheap

Allison and I were in town running some errands and I went to the drycleaners while she went to the shoe repairman (I had lost a piece of sole/heel running around from flight to flight last weekend). I asked Allison to ask the shoe repairman to fix the shoe.  But …

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13 hours!

Allison slept 13 hours last night!  🙂 (the prior night we took a red-eye coming back from vacationing in Hawaii and when we arrived she pretty much went straight to teaching the first class of the summer session to a group of 20 teachers).  (I wonder when she’ll be convinced …

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Old Town bird base defense

I was running today around Old Town San Diego (it’s cool) when I saw the only other runner I had seen that morning. I thought he may know where he was going, so I followed him. Then I saw him bending over and bringing his hands to his head, and …

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Dragonbreath

Something really weird just happened to me.  I was sitting down working on my computer, focused on work, and my body did sort of like an odd hiccup type thing, but not quite a hiccup but more like a rapid deep breath and exhale, and then SMOKE came out of …

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Double first-time double-take

Today I was brushing my teeth when Allison IM’d me via Google Hangout.  My phone was in front of me, so I video-chatted her back to see her face.  (this trip of hers to Belize was the first time I ever video chatted on Google Hangout from a phone).  So …

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Euphorbia invasion

Shortly after we moved to San Carlos, a plant emerged from the ground. I love the way it looks and I love that we didn’t water it for two years and it survived. Apparently it’s a Euphorbia: A couple of years ago I noticed that in the Spring the plant …

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Venezuelan Style

Today there were Venezuelan presidential elections, which were, of course, Venezuelan style. I got to San Francisco and there were lots of people waiting outside to vote, with no resemblance of a line. I found a volunteer, who explained that there were four tables and four lines, that I was …

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(Mis)calculation overflow

I have been very excited the last couple days because it is now just a few days before Allison returns home from her 3½ week trip to the Amazon.  However, at this precise moment, I’m glad she’s not home to see my latest mess: As to why I mixed water …

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