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It has been a while.  I'm alright.  How's everybody else?

If you haven'r seen my FB post, then I put my bike on the front rack of a bus and rode from the MOA to down town St. Paul.  There I had a meeting with the producer at the Mounds theater.  Now, you remember I had that little benefit concert to raise money to replace my green card?  Really, all you wonderful friends of mine did a superb job and you ( Read more... )

... I find I haven't posted anything since February.  Goodness me, haven't I been the quiet one?  Not much in the way of earth shattering news.  We have spent the last couple of weekends planting vegetables.  we now have TWO garden plots.  One where we have planted both sweet and hot peppers, for which evil baby bunnies from Hell have acquired a ( Read more... )

Some time ago, I put up a post about pickpockets being nasty. Here’s the skinny on that. I was on my way to work and my wallet was stolen while I was on the bus. As I am required to carry it by law, my Permanent Resident “Green” card was in there. It is going to cost me a fortune to replace. Now, I am holding a benefit concert - with various ( Read more... )

I just finished feeding the dogs.  I was washing some dishes when the dogs finished their sumptuous repast and I took a small break to let them outside.  As I peeled my wet fingers off the metal door handle, I was reminded of a breezy morning coming down the western side of Roger's Pass in the summer of 1977.  I would have been fifteen and on my ( Read more... )

I have been back working at the aquarium for some time now. We were recently issued a little quiz to assess our knowledge of the animals we talk about at the aquarium.  My boss spoke to me briefly after telling me he dad gone over it and told me my "grade".  I felt a bit of a Hermione Granger when he said I had scored an embarrassing 109%.  I hope ( Read more... )

I posted earlier today that my employers have been good enough to keep me working in a capacity other than driving until school starts.  Here's how I repay their good will.  The company was bought out by Koch Bus last spring.  So far, this is turning out to be a very good thing.  They are a family run business and they are as easy going as our ( Read more... )

I don't mind saying the summer has been a little rough and a bit more disappointing than I had hoped.  It has kind of slipped by without doing much of anything fun. Last Spring, I took my bike to the Hub to use their public workshop to give my bike the semi annual overhaul only to find the frame had snapped at the seat stays.  That pretty much ( Read more... )