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- Lea’s had a particularly nasty respiratory bug this week—nasty enough that I was thinking that if she didn’t feel a little better this morning she needed to go back to the doctor. (Fortunately, she’s improved some.) If something starts going on in your chest, take your temperature and pay attention.
- I am who wants a Microsoft Surface tablet. If I like the keyboard, I’ll get one.
- Speaking of Windows in portable electronics, I don’t mind typing on the on-screen keyboard on my Windows Phone nearly as much as I have a lot of other ones, mainly because it anticipates so well. Good logic there, folks. Thank you.
- Had to have a torsion spring on the garage door replaced yesterday, which wasn’t easy with the Technical Writing Express in the garage. I thought there was about a 75% chance the guy would scratch the car, and he did. I can’t even say it really upset me, though; it was just what happened next. It’s liberating to have a car you really do think of almost completely as an appliance.
- When I was 18 or 19, a big group of us often went bowling and then to the Dairy Queen on Max Luther. More than once, I can remember eating two foot-long chili and slaw dogs and a banana split, then being in bed an hour to an hour and a half later. That would make me miserable for 12 hours if I tried it now.
- Yeah, the garden hose water you drank probably a hundred times as a kid is going to kill you. Remember that taste it would have after sitting in the sun all day? I’m guessing that’s what the stuff that’s gonna getcha tastes like.
- Do you know who David Rufkahr is? No? How about Frank Bartles? Still having trouble? Click here. Sadly, he died in 1996 at the age of 61. RIP, and thank you for your support.
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Based upon what they’ve found concerning the garden hoses, thanks to our childhood I think you and I are going to die at some point 🙂
I will never forget the taste of that water…
Dave, you remember most of the hoses at my house had the connector cut off the end, because Dad would leave it in the driveway and Mom would run over it? 🙂
Yeah, that taste is seared in my gustatory memory too. ‘Course, I’ve since done several things that are certainly ahead of it in my permanent record for cancer risk. 🙁
I had forgotten that about the hoses at your place, but I definitely recall it now.
As far as cancer risk is concerned, I bet that breathing the air here in Birmingham is placing me at more risk than any of the water that we drank!