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Gettin’ close. . .

. . relatively speaking. I’m in Bellingham, Washington, ready to turn south and head for home. With a couple of stops along the way.
Actually, “relatively speaking” is a bit of a pun

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Having figured out that I can either do stuff or write about doing stuff, this will be the short version.
Iris and I spent 3 muggy/wet/hot/rainy days in/around DC (Smithsonian, monuments, some food), then headed for Amish country (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) for a day, then

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Quick update

Well, all systems are now go. I have official clearance from all doctors to do as I will. The cardiologist is sticking by his story that he’d be happy to have my arteries. (Turns out that one of the false positives may have been the result of, ahem, excessive frontal female tissue. [...]

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Woohoo!

I don’t know about the rest of y’all out there, but I’m saving my voting stubs.

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First rain

We had our first rain of the season last night. Around here, that’s like the first day of spring. This year, it hasn’t rained since some time last March, I think it was. It was short–a burst that lasted less than a minute, then a light rain for another few minutes, and [...]

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I’m outta here today (yay!), but only for a couple of weeks this time. I’m headed north until I hit Bellingham, WA; I’ll decide where to go from there when I get there.
Made some refinements to my car camping setup. First, I decided last fall that I need a privacy screen or anteroom [...]

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Of two kinds.
Does anyone but me see a face here?

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A-a-a-r-r-gh!!! Blogging.

This is harder than I thought it would be. I’ve started several posts that I thought would be quickies–they seemed like such simple, straightforward ideas in my head–but which have turned into MONSTERS. Migawd, who knew?
Anyway, I’m still working on them–I haven’t abandoned the blog. It’s just going to take [...]

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Epistemology 2

When I was in graduate school, I measured my progress by whether I had learned a new polysyllabic word that year or not. Epistemology is my favorite–it makes such a satisfying, but entirely proper and safe, exclamation when one is annoyed by something, especially when accompanied by a stomp of the foot on the [...]

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