Kitchen Sink

Ignoring the Problem

“Maybe if you do nothing it will just go away” (said by no one responsible). A few months ago I noticed images in some of these posts were not rendering correctly – but only in some circumstances. If I pulled up pages with individual posts the images appeared correctly. But when I looked at the main page of the blog (multiple posts in descending order, by date) some images did not. Today…
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Bicycling

Ignoble End

I ride my bike nearly every day. I don’t ride nearly as far these days but I’d like to think quantity is its own quality. In terms of health and exercise, I think getting my heart rate up for a good 40 minutes each day is probably doing ok – or at least better than average. I fantasize about riding longer. I see folks on the U-tubes riding across the state or country and I think, “Why…
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Wellbeing

My Fingers Don’t Work Anymore

Although I’ve never been a great typist, my fingers rest as naturally on the home row as my head does a pillow. But lately typing is a never ending string of frustrations… a seeming combination of my fingers not following orders and the orders issued being flawed. I never get from capital letter to punctuation without a string of back-spaces and a correction. My pinkie reaches for…
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Current Events

Graham Hall, et al.

I heard the dorms around Graham Hall were coming down (Graham, Simpson and Trusler). This summer they were ominously fenced off. Last week they started falling. I took some pictures Saturday. I thought about getting up close to the fence and shooting through it. Then I figured the fence added more than it obscured. Everyone loves a stairs to nowhere picture. Graham Hall with…
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Family and Friends

Obiturary - Cheryl's dad

Joseph Paul Bouvier of Gainesville (FL), formerly of Dunedin, Merrimack (NH), and Biddeford (ME), passed away on December 23rd. He was 86 years old. Prior to joining the Army as a young adult – and continuing to this day, family from his youth knew him as Paul Joseph Bouvier… or simply Paul. Friends knew him as Butch. Seeking to escape a nickname and citing a fortuitous mistake on his birth…
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