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This Blog started in 2001 as a Trip Log to record a summer in Alaska. Since then, it has morphed into my online diary.

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A visit to the local grave yard…

The late Senator Byrd of West Virginia

Senator Byrd – the long time senator from West Virginia – is one of the more famous residents of “Columbia Gardens”. Says something about West Virginia – neither of the Byrds wanted to be caught dead in West Virginia.

At the Stone Shop.

I wandered over to the stone shop – wanted to make sure that there were no chunks of rock with my name on it.

The Airness was a year old yesterday. I love the form factor. I would really like a larger solid state disk. I only have 128Gig. And, I little more power. But, I don’t see myself replacing it. In fact, I am not sure that the MacBook Air isn’t an evolutionary dead end.

Sad day today – this is the last day of the pool. The pool is heated. It could stay open for another week. Summer is still here.

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I know, I know

Maury School Play Ground

Don’t mess with the theme. But, I can not help myself.

This theme is most likely not a keeper unless I can tweet some sort of conformity into it. I don’t think it will “play well with others”. Sort of like the teapotheads.

New theme is gone for now. Sorry you missed it. I was good while it lasted – but it did work well with the old posts – which means that the new posts will not play nice with other themes. Too fussy for me.

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Evil Eye From Georgetown Cat

Georgetown Fat Cat

Went hiking in the wilds of Georgetown today. Nothing ever changes in Georgetown. Everyone is always rich. Tourist buses always drive by the house where JFK lived. And I always like walking around Georgetown.

I am getting less and less amused by the political scene. But whats not to love about Jon Stewart and Stephan Colbert having “political” rallies in DC right before the election. (Also right before Halloween.) Should that not be a wake up call to any American with a brain? And what about you, Bill Maher? What are you going to do?

Carlton is watching  wrestling on TV. Is that a sign of Alzheimer’s? Or is that a political statement? Since Linda McMahon, who made her money in the WWE is trying to self-finance her way into the US Senate.

But, as a country we have gone down some bad roads before … we always corrected course before any last damage was done. Maybe we be lucky again.

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Some days the light loves you

Ornamental Grass
Monarch Butterfly

So, let us just enjoy the light and leave politics aside for today.

Investments. I always wanted to own a salt mine. So, I bought some stock in a salt mine the other day. That is pretty low tech.

Tech. Decided to spring for Apple Care for the Airness. $250 for two more years. Health Insurance for the computer.

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Well…

Well, yesterday it seemed like a good idea to root for Christine O’Donnell. Now it appears that she will win.

Since I live in the US of A, for now… no matter how amusing Sen. O’Donnell would be – now it is time to get with the program and send the teapotheads back to where ever it is that they came from.

These guys (of both sexes) make Tom Colburn seem totally rational.

May you live in interesting times. I fear that I might be too old to see the end of “interesting times”. It will not be boring – the twilight of my time.

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Leftovers… from the last sunrise.

Saturday Sunrise - Looking East
Looking West
Saturday Sunrise - Enjoying the Sun

All you good folk in Delaware – Get out tomorrow and vote early and often for Christine O’Donnell. I think it is a closed primary. Pity.

Yesterday, I mentioned that I destroy earbuds. Well, I just checked my Amazon “Order History”. Turns out the pair that I have about demolished is 25 months old and the cost per day amounts to 9 cents per day. So, I am not as bad as I thought. New earbuds on order.

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Sunrise Free Sunday

Still loving my computer "room"
And, the backup computer "room", too - yes - those are rabbit ears!

The Apple Store has the new iPods and iPhones. The new Nano is the cutest thing. But, I don’t understand it. It has the same memory and same price as the previous Nano – but fewer features. But, it is cute. $149 of cute, I don’t need. Especially since I have 3 working iPods. A Classic from before it was “Classic”, a Classic, and a Gen2 Touch. I’ll pass on iPods this time out. I destroy earbuds… I’ll treat myself to a new pair of earbuds.

The Airness is almost a year old. So, it is time to decide if I am going to get AppleCare for it. $250 dollars for 2 more years of coverage. Nothing has gone wrong in the first year. And I have used it a bunch. Will think about it for a few days.

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A black and white day

Friday Sunrise - the sun rises in B/W too.
Signs of things to come.

In our neighborhood, everyone has a flag for 9/11.

Big Flags

Or…

Little Flags

Carlton hurt his hip playing tennis this morning. He can not play tennis. He can not ride his bike. He can not walk upstairs. But he can lay in bed. He can sit in a chair. He can drive the car. So, things are not too bad.

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I guess any day the sunrises is a good day…

Thursday Sunrise - about 15 seconds early

The sun was behind the Washington Monument. It looked a bunch better in real life.

Thursday Sunrise - coming up behind the Washington Monument

In real life – it looked like the “base” of the monument was on fire. Here it sort of looks like a beaver has been gnawing on the monument. Not a real good effect.

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Wednesday Sunrise

Wednesday at sunrise ... with birds

At 0644 this morning, the sun was in hiding. But, the crows were out in force.

But, the sun was just hiding.

Twelve minutes later, the sun peeks out.

I managed to not make a mammogram appointment today. Tomorrow is another day. Just Do It!