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I caught the squirrels fighting over the chips spilled on the patio during the party last night. I let my dog resolve the conflict.
| Finished my Philadelphia '09 Educause prop--feel good. I'll let it sit for a few hours then send it off into the back of beyond. |
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| Chanced on the Phillies big ninth inning win at Shea just now. Woot! |
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| Just back from Cherry Hill where the peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums, and cherries are piled high. Summer fruit--what joy! |
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| Damn hot and sticky. Thunderstorms on their way, we hope! |
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| When did "plate" become a verb? "A sacrifice fly by Texas Rangers' Michael Young plates the game winning run in the 15th inning." -WPost. |
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| "I will know when the cherries are ready by their absence." -V Klinkenborg NYT 7/11/08 |
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| Had one of those totally interrupted days. Got nothing done. Well, one thing: notes for a proposal for our writing center OWL. |
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| Following WITFNews and LancasterNews. Feel more connected to the local. |
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| Kevin O'Connor, host of _This Old House_, mourned the passing of a friend/contractor--filmed BW in the man's last job, a tiled bath. Moving. |
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| Using http://posterous.com/ where you email to your blog. Quick, no nonsense blogging. Sweet. |
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| The garden was a fine sight this morning except for that one Japanese Beetle. Soon the hoards? |
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| Giving Italo Calvino a shot after reading Gore Vidal's interview in the Sunday NYTimes. Picked up _Invisible Cities_ at BN. |
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| Ate first home grown cucumber with baby romaine. Heaven. And only the beginning. |
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| Started training writing tutors for the 5wk summer session. My folks will help these students become better writers. Neat work. |
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| Trying to copy and then delete files off an old Win98 machine so I can use it as a login terminal for Tutortrac. Slooow! |
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| "Outside of that, you're fine." The doc wipes the ball on his pants, hands it to him. |
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| The doctor after performing a colonoscopy on his friend said he had bad news: "I found this (pulls out a golf ball) in your colon." |
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| has many more tomatoes than he can use. They're free to good homes. |
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| Started digging out the area we plan to brick in front of our shed/garage. The heat kicked our a**. At it again tomorrow but earlier. |
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