The earthquake retrofit is pretty much done. Here’s the footprint of my house, with the green representing already reinforced parts, and the red the newly done stuff. The back part of the basement, then and now: Up until a few days ago, my keyboard was acting up so that every keystroke lagged behind by almost a second, driving me insane. I test-typed a sentence to evaluate the situation so I could report details to Molly […]
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Battling age
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Man, are these scary times in this old U.S. of A. Every day the outrages dreamed up by the right keep compounding and getting ever more shocking and dangerous. All my life I’ve been naïve in my delusion that this couldn’t happen here. I’m stunned. I remain grateful to Ellen D. for introducing me to the historical perspective and insight of Heather Cox Richardson. On the radiantly bright side, Ember and Jesse finally got their […]
Read moreThe Belly of the Beast
Editor’s note: The beginning of this story was originally woven cleverly and gracefully into my previous post. But after days and days, its denouement was still not apparent, so I decided to pluck it out and save it for later. Why? Because of Small, for whom its unanswered questions would be worrisome. The creative sacrifices I make for her! Then last night I decided not to post it at all because a friend said it’s […]
Read moreIt’s All About Me, Part 926: Five Portraits
Hard to believe it’s the 32nd anniversary of the Loma Prieta Earthquake. As a result of Molly’s help, I received a disc with the CT scan that Kaiser did of my bean. I downloaded the recommended software but after 1.5 hours I still couldn’t get the damned things to load properly. I did, however, manage to capture a handful of screen grabs when an image suddenly materialized before the program froze again. Here are four: […]
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