Archive: July 2004

Moan

It should be against the law to have MS and migraines.

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New toys

I installed Apache and PHP on my computer this week. Now I can convert rmvr.com to PHP on my trip to Albuquerque next week (doesn’t everybody need something interesting to do in their hotel room?).

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Complicated favours

I was on my way out of Borders this evening, just waiting for an elderly couple to come in when they stopped dead in the second double doorway, staring at me, apparently in shock or fright. The woman recovered, but did not budge from the door as she asked, “Are you going out?”
I briefly considered [...]

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Motorized wheelchair ties up highway traffic

ABC7Chicago.com: Motorized wheelchair ties up highway traffic
This story seems to have hit every news outlet in the universe, but none of them have identified the point – paratransit services across the United States are consistently unreliable.

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Charmed life

I’m living a charmed life.
One of the things my Beloved likes to point out about me is that I sometimes make mistakes. With important things, like plane tickets.
When I booked tickets for my trip with Eldest Son to Baltimore in August, I checked them very, very carefully. Imagine my surprise this evening when Frontier Airlines [...]

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Finding time to exercise

My Beloved and I went to the Rec Center over the weekend to play with the weight machines. I could barely do a leg curl, even without weight, but I could row at the highest resistance for ten minutes.
My Beloved believes (or tries to believe) that whatever ails a body can be cured with exercise. [...]

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