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It’s always fun to see contractors come in, look around and go, “Huh.” with puzzled expressions at what the previous contractors had done.

“Huh” can be a very expensive sound.
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Pasta! Homemade, hand rolled pasta… That’s what was for dinner on Sunday. Hand-crafted little ravioli marvels, full of crab and cheese, and served in a tasty four-cheese hollandaise sauce with extra bits of seafood for flavor. And that’s what’s behind the big gap in posting this week.
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I’m filming a set of interviews with cancer patients, and there are a couple of common themes that are developing. One of the biggest ones has to be the alteration in interpersonal power dynamics that occurs when one person is dressed in ordinary clothes and the other is wearing a paper gown that almost, but not quite, ties in the back.
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There’s been this odd, dark, musty smell that I’ve started noticing at work. At first I thought it was my desk area, but then I noticed it at the conference table, and over by the scanner.

Then I realized that I haven’t worn these shoes all summer. And I remembered why I stopped wearing them last spring.
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If you’ve seen Shanghai Noon, there’s a scene where Jackie Chan beats the living tar out of a group of angry cowboys using only a horseshoe on a rope. The rope-dart is an actual martial arts weapon, available from actual martial arts weapons supply places. And it looks incredibly cool.
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