August 9, 2024, Household and Medical Updates…

Hi, [Update: 7-28-2024 — We must sound like walking disasters lately. Our garbage disposal gave up the ghost. Water just pours right out the bottom. One of our plumbers is coming to check it out tomorrow. We’ll have to replace it, of course. The garbage disposal came with the house when we bought it new …

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Coffee Addendum

Picture of Michael at a NaNoWriMo event

On June 25th I posted “Coffee and the Writer,” a few observations about my penchant for having a warm beverage nearby while I write. A few days ago I ran across a note I emailed to myself from Baltimore in November 2002. It was about a coffee incident I encountered at SC2002 (the Supercomputing Conference …

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