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I did it!

Today is my 59th birthday, and I really did a blog post every day since my 58th birthday a year ago. You can read them all at the fifty ninth year tag. I count 3 days that I really cheated. 2 of them I was sick in bed. I posted "I'm sick in bed so [...]
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Snow Dog at the Dog Park

Snow Dog We had a good snow sculpture snow last week, and someone made this dog at the dog park. I've been researching cell phones with better cameras, and cameras that fit better in a pocket, and haven't found anything for less than $80, which seems frivolous. But I might get annoyed enough at the [...]
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Beer for the dying

At the beginning of Victoria's memorial service, George, her husband, gave a welcome speech. The first memory he told us about was of the last few weeks or months of her life, when every morning she would wake up and they would share a beer. Even on her last day, he wet her lips with [...]
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Polish Pastries

I've been struggling with Windows all morning, so instead of telling you about yesterday's concert, I'll just show you the pictures I took of the pastry. I mostly got the homemade ones; there were also some good ones ordered from the internet. Mazurki The way my family makes them, mazurki are a cookie base with [...]
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Victoria Bolles, RIP

Victoria from her obituary at the local paper. I mentioned a few days ago that I had two Memorial Services I wanted to go to yesterday afternoon. The one I actually went to was for Victoria Bolles, a friend from the West Gallery Quire. Victoria from her Facebook Page I didn't know Victoria that well [...]
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Sunny eats Pine Needles

My recorder teacher likes decorating his house for Christmas, and has been out of town for a large fraction of the time since then, so the pine garland he wound around his bannister is still there, or was until last night. While I was putting on my coat to go home, Sunny suddenly started eating [...]
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Reading PDF files on a portable device

This is a holy grail for people who want to carry their libraries in their pockets and read without glasses or special lighting. The problem is that a lot of the people who distribute ebooks seem to think that using a page-description language like PDF is a suitable distribution method. But actually reading something formatted [...]
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Marty Sasaki, RIP

Marty from post to his high school facebook page Marty's death apparently happened about six months ago. He stopped posting to his blog on August 13. His recorder teacher, who told me about it, had seen him at her student recital (which may have been the one on September 12) two days before he died. [...]
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Another Chopin Concert

Judith Conrad, Fortepiano with the Delight Consort Sunday, March 7, 2010, 3:00 The Loring Greenough House Celebrating Fryderyk Chopin’s 200th Birthday with parlor music by himself and his forbears Frederic Chopin, whose 200th birthday is March 1st, 2010, played a square piano in his youth in Poland, and continued to perform on them in salons [...]
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The Spare Room

This book is about aspects of taking care of a dying person that I mostly didn't do with Bonnie. The main character (Helen) lives near Melbourne, and has a close friend (Nicola) with cancer who lives in Sidney but has found a "clinic" in Melbourne that she believes will cure her cancer. So she moves [...]
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