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Archive for September 2002

what I want

Posted on 9/23/2002

- EZ-3 trike. long-time readers may know that I’ve never learned how to ride a bike. a tragic combination of bad balance & coordination, family tragedy, and not enough interest to put in the resources.
but Saturday we dropped by Bike Tech (no web site, apparently) and Chad tried out the recumbents while I tried out […]

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sometimes it hurts being an adult

Posted on 9/21/2002

there was a stray cat who came ’round our house over last weekend, and he looked thin, and was friendly, and so we gave him food. he was also a very vocal cat, so we started calling him Mr. Noisy. then we sat down, each in turn, outside, and let him crawl onto our […]

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okay, so that was longer than after going to the store

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a bunch of other stuff happened, like going to Mt. Rainier…we resupplied a few friends who are hiking the wonderland trail. we got to camp overnight at Mowich Lake, which was absolutely gorgeous (pictures later, hopefully), and not only brought the supplies they asked for, but made dinner and breakfast.
we really need a sleeping […]

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“personal transparency”

Posted on 9/16/2002

first off, Dorothea writes beautifully about blogging & the family.
I too have wondered about what might happen should random people (family, friends, other sorts of acquaintences) run into this little page…so far, all of those random moments have been quite pleasant - mostly on the level of “yeah, I saw something about X on your […]

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yeah, I’m cleaning

Posted on 9/15/2002

I finally took the time to go through my latest backlog of weird random links (see below); I’d attribute, but now I’ve no idea what I found where.

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disparate things

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- A smaller circle of friends - “But when the shock wore off and the frenzy of activity diminished, I began to dwell on Cal and Doug themselves, how they had died, all that they would miss as their kids grew up.”
politics…
- a letter to Ashcroft
America may want to rethink a system that creates so […]

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Hi! This is Elaine Nelson's site, which used to be at epersonae.com, and which is sometimes known as emergency weblog.