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But if you’re lucky, someone else might pick up the tab for dinner now and then.
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Well, actually there’s quite a few places like home. There’s even more of them that could be called “home” and that’s where there was a bit of confusion last night.
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I’m just not a terribly good capitalist.
We just had a client in who was on the verge of dropping off a job that would have made us about $300. Fairly simple slide imaging stuff, but in sufficient quantity to make it useful to break out the bulk load camera. Then she mentioned that she was an art student and it was stuff for her portfolio.
Uh oh.
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Well mostly.
It took about an hour and a half to mow the three yard sections (front, near back, far back) but it was worth it. If I keep up with things, I should be able to maintain it with the push mower, which is a much quieter way of dealing with things.
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Fun phone call last night from a friend of mine who was tuned into local news. It seems there was some sort of “Chemical accident” at a metal plating plant about a mile or two away from my house.
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It’s been pouring rain on and off for the past few days. I’d hoped that it would clear up enough for me to take care of my lawn. Right now it looks pretty wild out there. It’s ankle deep in places. My house is looking like the ragged, unkempt kid on the block. No more hail though, not like Friday.
Which reminds me, I was going to tell the hail story…
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I’m not sure which to call this one. Probably late Friday. I’m one of those people who doesn’t count a new day as starting until after I’ve gone to sleep and gotten back up.
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Another picture of a flowering plant that I can’t accurately identify. At least not with any degree of horticultural precision. I mean, I can point at it and say “Hey, that’s the same kind of tree that grows around the circle drive outside the hospital!” but I can’t tell you what kind of tree it is.
All I know is that if Barbara Walters asked me what kind of tree I’d like to be, this wouldn’t be it.
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These trees have such beautiful flowers… It’s such a pity that they produce inedible fruit.
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