I’ll soon be drunk on words. Thank you all for your book recommendations. Sis and I are hitting the waves again in three weeks (yes, reserved before I lost a client, and no, I can’t get the money back), and ship libraries are often wretched. Plus every book is covered with Norwalk virus, I am sure. So I bought six used paperbacks by Thomas Perry, T. Jefferson Parker, Margolin, Joy Fielding, John Lescroart, Martini. Sis is happily speed reading through Bujold books; good thing there’s a lot of them. These are just the first of your recommendations, and I have many more to go. I am rich.

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If you didn’t do what you do for a living, you could be a vet and trim birdie toenails, while avoiding a beak like this.

This process costs $10 for the vet and an assistant. For me it is actually $9, what with being a senior and all. I consider this the best value left in America.

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For quite a while, some evil empire has been threatening the Port Angeles pool. Homeowners across town have “save our pool” signs in their yards or front windows. One enterprising soul painted three signs, one word per, then mounted them on his property ala Burma Shave. Over time, the first sign crumbled and then the second. The third has been vandalized. So now, his property merely says, POO.”