Chip Shots 8
That WARNING may mean something to somebody. But the wild roses don't care.
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In the seventies, I wrote a nonfiction book. I spent virtually every waking hour in a library doing research, taking long hand notes. I typed the text on copy sets, which were two 8 1/2 x 11 sheets with a piece of carbon paper in the middle that you tossed when the page was done. Today I needed to know how much a fully loaded logging truck weighs and the lyrics to Barney Google. It took about eight minutes to do the research and another two to insert these intriguing items into my document (which I carry around everywhere on a thumbdrive that I could hide in a lipstick tube, if in fact I had a lipstick tube). As a writer of some truly brilliant works in my time, I’d like to say: Wow.
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Quote of the Day from Excellent Women by Barbara Pym:
They’ve moved me to a new office and I don’t like it at all. Different pigeons come to the windows.
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Baseballs autographed by Ryne Sandberg and Mark Grace. A complete set of Beatles cassettes. A piece of an old Allen Fieldhouse floor engraved with a Jayhawk. A couple pairs of new slacks, a KU T-shirt, a Leatherman tool. A flawless set of Danbury Mint model cars, two silver Balboa coins and a 20 franc Swiss gold coin. Sets of Colombo and House DVDs. The Mister’s life on eBay.