The loaner dog (dare I say Our) is over for a bit. No stress. I can almost imagine the thought balloons.
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As a tourist, I have a great deal of interest in “the old highway”. Denotes something that was replaced with newer and better. We have #2 which goes from tip to tip, sort of. The road where you would send a friend with a bicycle.
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Data is wonderful. After all, it isn’t who you know but what you know.
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The more I study, the more I realize that the world is a bad place. For anyone trying to earn an honest living by making stuff, at least. I watched a video about fake parts, and I came away with the conviction that if you can buy it, someone else is already copying your idea for profit. Some of the details in the video made me want to hide away in my basement (airplane parts that can cause said airplane to fall out of the sky). In one case, a $300 bolt had been replaced with a $30 and things went wrong. Scratch one airplane.
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The time has come to find a friend with deep pockets. Not M.M.Visa, nor the people that emailed me (twice) today to let me know that I’m in for a large bank transaction once I click on a carefully crafted attachment. Once fooled, twice shy.
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In my day, we didn’t demonstrate knowledge to our peers. No moments of public exposition to the class. Actually, we did stand and read aloud from the appropriate page in our readers, but that was more to shame the illiterate. Hard times. Also, we never talked about what happened at home. What happens at home stays at home, giving way to “what happens in Vegas”.
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Nearly, like within jogging distance, there is a home that is larger than most in this area. I’ve been in the driveway, for no particular reason. What made the property unique is its identifier. The local people refer to it as the “Millionaire’s House”.
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An incident from yesterday will require that I file a report. I must need to decide if it goes under “effects of climate change” or the more general heading of “collateral damage. Since I haven’t been out to inspect the site, personally, I am basing this on secondary accounts.
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Let’s me frank about something, and no, that’s not my name. Not everything requires precision. If you asked about how many years I dedicated to my education, I will go with a very round estimate.
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Society loves magicians. I can confirm this, after a lifetime of doing magic tricks for others. What I really want to say is that being a technician gives you a special insight into that quote from A.C.Clarke. The one that goes something like this: “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.
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