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Monthly Archives: September 2018
SITY: Birthday Spider
If you see a spider on your birthday, then it’s a Birthday Spider. This is my Birthday Spider. He was green (my favorite color), and he made this beautiful web.
SITY: Birthday Frog
If you see a frog on your birthday, then it’s a Birthday Frog. My Birthday Frog was hiding in the grass, shyly. I had thought that one needed luck in order to find a Birthday Frog, but I have it … Continue reading
Vision
I went to the eye doctor a few weeks ago. I really needed new glasses. I was hoping to get progressive bifocal lenses. The price they quoted me was over $100 more than I was prepared to pay, though. Ouch! … Continue reading
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Another Today
Today… I printed my latest work project so that I can give it a final check before sending it to Typesetting. It wasn’t quite done, but the finished parts were in good shape. Considering all the time off I’ve taken … Continue reading
Guess Who’s Calling
We get so many scam phone calls these days that we don’t answer the phone unless we recognize the number on the caller ID. Each scam call shows up on the caller ID as a phone number and associated town. … Continue reading
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True Story
Today I was working on a puzzle with a baby theme, and in it was the phrase “tiny hands,” and I had to remove the phrase so that no one would think I was talking about the president.
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The Weather
It was hot, and it was hot, and it was hot, and it was really hot, and then all of a sudden it was chilly, and I was like “Wha?”
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Just Say No to Pron
I get enough spam comments now that I don’t usually read them before deleting them, but one caught my eye the other day. It was an advertisement for a “pron” site. I know that spam is typically full of misspellings … Continue reading
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Two Books, Two People
I finished two books recently that belong together, so I must review them together. The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell, Grade: A- Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets by Jessica A. Fox, Grade: B+ I became … Continue reading
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Cozy in Scotland
The Cracked Spine: A Scottish Bookshop Mystery by Paige Shelton Grade: B I’ve been bingeing on books about bookshops. You wouldn’t think there would be that many, but there are. This particular one is a cozy mystery about a woman … Continue reading
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