Recovering from a virus

I’m writing this note from work during my lunch hour. I suffered a massive computer virus attack earlier this week. 

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Our Stinky Girl, Redux

Last Christmas I wrote about our Edie girl’s run-in with a skunk. Lately she’s found something else with which to perfume herself.

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Elkhorn Slough and diving birds, too

I drove down to Monterey Bay this Saturday to check out  The Elkhorn Slough “Safari.” 

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Commuting, Working, and Not Wielding a Baseball Bat

Growing up in a small city of fifty to sixty thousand, I wasn’t really prepared for urban commuting. I’m guessing my folks drove for about ten, fifteen minutes to get to their jobs. My junior high was close by, so I commuted with them. My high school was so close, I could walk.

Dealing with the dysfunction of dozens of different transit districts grappling with each other like sumo wrestlers it wasn’t.

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Getting it right, eventually

 A year ago I posted on it, but struggled to say it, and didn’t nail it. I admit it. I tried here, in Better shared than in private about how sometimes I enjoyed hearing a song on the radio but I wouldn’t necessarily go play the same song on my own stereo. Why did it seem to sound better on the radio?

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