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Saturday, snow. Sunday, more snow overnight. We went cross-country skiing Saturday and encountered a kind of weird snowmobiler who, muffled all up in his helmet like Kenny, seemed to be offering to set track for us.
We skiied along the treeline for a while, and when we ran out of trees, ran right into [...]

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BBC NEWS | Health | Alzheimer brain damage ‘reversed’
That’s all very well for people named Mickey and Minnie, but at least it’s progress.
The US team used an antibody to remove the build up of potentially damaging deposits from the area of the brain responsible for memory and cognition.
The treatment reversed the nerve cell damage [...]

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No, it’s not a particularly tall drink, it’s a way o of putting web content in 3 columns in a way that might load better no matter what web browser you use. A conversation with my mom-in-law makes me think I might have to come up with a better, more fluid layout for the (cough) [...]

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I just took this picture of my husband David drinking a companionable glass of wine a short time after I finally arrived home. There was lots of snow, and thus a lot of slow, careful traffic. It was one of “those” days at work, also. So the wine was very welcome.
And hey presto! I’m in [...]

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David and I had a discussion very much like this just the other day.

This surprises me — not at all, reading the requirements. They want a combination half-time researcher, half-time developer, half-time sysadmin, half-time web designer, half-time project manager, half-time librarian, and half-time information architect. That’s just a few too many halves; of course [...]

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