January 2012

Codeine Cough Medicine…where’s our common sense gone?

January 30, 2012

By Friday afternoon, I was so sick! And coughing so hard I couldn’t breathe. The voice was gone—for three or four days it was all I could do to whisper, not because of laryngitis (as in a cold settling into your throat) but because the unstoppable violent cough was tearing up the windpipe. I called [...]

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Tax Time Sneaking Up: Are You Organized?

January 30, 2012

The accountant is getting antsy for 1099s. Where are the 1099s? Don’t I know it’s TIME TO DO THE TAXES? Well….yes. Where are the 1099s, there in the disorganized organization that passes for my file drawers? Thought I’d saved the PDFs to disk. But if I did, I can’t find them. As the desktop iMac [...]

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Swimming Pool Delittering Joy

January 28, 2012

Last night the wind blew briskly enough to pick up several sections of the newspaper that I’d left on the table under the patio cover. It pulled each section apart and scattered newspaper pages all over the yard. One double-truck spread even landed in the pool. Took all of about ten seconds to walk around [...]

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Charley and the Ferocious Corgi

January 28, 2012

Cassie, late the beaten-down 25-pound victim of the gallumphing Charley the Golden Retriever Puppy, has come into her own. All of a sudden one day it dawned on her that even though he weighs three times more than she does, she’s bigger than him. The astonishing thing is, he thinks so, too. She actually chases [...]

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Is the AAA Worth Its Cost?

January 27, 2012

Yesterday morning M’hijito’s battery died. So I had to drive up to his place and chauffeur him to work, and then pick him up after work and lend him the Dog Chariot so he could chase down a battery. My friend La Maya asked why we don’t have a AAA (American Automobile Association) membership, since [...]

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Google Privacy Follow-up

January 26, 2012

The Washington Post has a nice article by one Hayley Tsukayama on how to get some modicum of control over what you’re sharing, perforce or by accident, with the megalith that is Google. If your privacy matters to you, check it out.

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