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1. about 9 hours ago on Wizard of Id

   Fellow sticklers of the world, unite!

2. about 9 hours ago on Wizard of Id

   I don’t know how you feel about it, but I am ambivalent. I have dreams, but I also feel the yearly drag on my aging body. I suspect it will mean a bit of a crisis when I resolve the dreams. C’est la vie!

3. about 11 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   WWII, not I. Mea culpa… I should at least look at what I have written!

4. about 11 hours ago on For Better or For Worse

   Our 17 year old grandson completed his GED a couple months ago and got a job at Safeway a couple weeks ago.

5. about 11 hours ago on For Better or For Worse

   Three tens, please….

6. about 11 hours ago on Wizard of Id

   I’m not forever – at age 72 I don’t have many decades left – so forever plastics are not something I worry about.

7. about 19 hours ago on Wizard of Id

   Giardia survives running water just fine. Giardia is endemic in wildlife worldwide.

   Penn State University notes, “Removing Giardia cysts before they reach the tap usually involves disinfection to inactivate the cysts and filtration through a fine media to physically remove the cysts from the water. Because Giardia cysts are resistant to normal disinfection, filtration is usually required.”

8. about 19 hours ago on Wizard of Id

   Giardia does not care how far it has to travel; the organisms remain in cysts until they reach our digestive tract.

9. about 19 hours ago on Wizard of Id

   Giardiasis is transmitted through animal excrement… which in turn is greatly increases by the disease.

10. about 20 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

    snoring like a departing 747 or a WW1 V1 “buzz-bomb”! Leave it to the Brits to call them “doodlebugs!”