The Second, Second Best Blog

There are, no doubt, places that get hotter on a regular basis, but I believe today is the hottest day I’ve ever experienced at home. The shot at left was taken at 1:06 PM.
The whole day has been a bit unusual, beginning at 4:34 AM when, unbeknowst to us, my most excellent spouse, Patricia [...]

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Since returning to work, I have gone for a walk during my lunch hour everyday except one. It is mostly an industrial area, on the border between Irvine and Lake Forest. Most of the buildings look similar to the one I work in (at right). Of course some are bigger, but they are almost uniformly [...]

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Nicky Bird is very gradually becoming less reluctant to take peanuts. He seems to be perpetually in a hurry. He doesn’t come as often as Kay, but when he arrives, he skitters to a stop on the glass patio table and cocks his head in every direction looking for the peanuts that I usually hide [...]

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Chances are that nearly everyone who wants to convert from Windows XP to Vista on their home computers has already done so. If that is your case, the rest of this article won’t be news. But if you are thinking of upgrading or have done so recently, you may run into the same problem I [...]

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