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2010-10-19–tues–
How about if I leave out the dates and date-jumps??
THE RETURN OF THE WHEELCHAIR DETECTIVE WITH THE TRI-COLOR FOOT (turned scientist turned wheelchair detective, back and forth a couple times).
ALBUQUERQUE –
There were no clues to be found anywhere in THE BIG A, so wcd01 flew to Seattle where Transcontinental Paper and String’s HQ occupied the tallest building just south of town near the airport.
SEATTLE –
Ha!!! Lots of clues at TCPS HQ. Lots of motives and intents AND opportunities. Lots of suspects. Too many. So the wcd01 drove south to Portland, OR. where TCPS had it’s research center and did not test on porcupines, elephants or ants or whales (I think ... I can’t find where I say – oh, there it is, where I talk about shaving too.) There the wcd01 with the swollen and tri-color foot found just one motive and intent and opportunity. All on one guy.
“This should be easy to handle.” thot wcd01.
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We now have some new paths thru’ the garden – cement ones. The weather forecast changed, and the guys showed up about 7 AM and the cement truck at 9:40 and now we just have to wait for a few days or a week. A squirrel tested it early on and the cement guy and his wife came back a couple of times to check on it.
Connie checked with the main guy (the main guy and his son were here yesterday with a bobcat-backhoe digging out the paths) about a patio out back.
Speaking of films of Phiip K. Dick’s scifi stories, there’s only two I’ve liked – BLADERUNNER and THROUGH THE SCANNER DARKLY. Others – The Minority Report, Next, ... I think are pretty crappy.
I just got MEDICARE AND YOU - 2011 (fat booklet) in the mail (yesterday). It’s full of smiling 65 yr-and-older smiling people. Aside... The medical equipment catalogues are full of smiling people too. Large folk being hoisted happily. I bet when surgeons start using catalogues we’ll see someone smilingly getting open-heart surgery. Then when mortuaries start using catalogues – smiling cadavers...
Anyway, what is this BS??? I’ve never caught me smiling while using a disabled person’s device!! And MEDICARE has yet to coax a grin from me (that’s socialized medicine for ya !!!) (or for me, anyway.)
Well, I suppose I’ll be 65 yr-and-older some day soon.
We also got a catalogue about the neat toy store in Oly, WIND UP HERE. All the models in it are younger than 65 yrs, but they’re smiling too. Future engineers, fashion designers, magicians(illusionists), super heroes, scientists, ... in general, just good, smart (also, happy) little people. Now I see what ‘wage slave’ really means. And where it starts. And where it ends. And how it works. I’ve always wanted to be one; I just didn’t know it.
Boy! is it raining today. Well, only 7 more months of it to go.