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Sonya and I had a belated housewarming party last night. Things went pretty well; we grilled entirely too many hot dogs and too much corn, but we have leftovers to eat today, which means it will be easier to feed myself. And a good time was had by those who were there.

The last time I had a housewarming party was during my undergraduate study...
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Yes, I am aware that Walter Cronkite died. No, I'm not going to emmorialize him; he retired before I was born. I recognize his importance to the American cultural landscape of the Cold War era, but that's about it.

I do think, though, that he's more fit for memorialization than Michael Jackson. Let it go, folks. Let it go.

Yes, I seem to be a...
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Another week has passed, and things are much the same as ever. I've gotten back to reading for myself, which I hadn't been doing for a while, and I feel mucht he better for it. I've also been working to keep myself better hydrated than before; it seems to have been a problem over the past couple of months. Drinking more seems to help.

I...
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I do hope that everybody had a fine July 4th. Sonya and I certainly did; we did nothing, really, and it was quite nice to have a weekend that didn't run us all over, forcing us up early and to bed late. No, we had a nice, quiet time at home.

And I am damned pleased to have a home at which to have a...
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Okay, I get it, we're sad as a world that Michael Jackson died. Never mind that his cultural relevance waned some fifteen years ago...but I suppose that he did do enough early on that he is worth remembering. But I think that the massive outpouring of grief is a bit much.

He wasn't really that imporant.

I did just read, though, that Billy Mays is...
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I already called Dad this morning, and I had sent a card a while back, so I'm covered on this one. I probably ought to give Uncle Puck a call, though; he'll miss it if I don't.

Sonya's family is out of town, now, so things can get back to normal. Of course, "normal" tends to mean a hell of a lot of work, but...
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Sonya's family is in New York City, and so the usualy running around has been amplified considerably. For myself, it is not such a good thing; I am not given to traipsing about town, really, as those who know me know. I would much rather stay more or less in, enjoying quiet idleness, than try to "see the sights."

Maybe I am simply too much...
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So, the place where I have been composing the original blog entries for the past while, Yahoo! 360, is pulling the plug on itself. This annoys me, because I had had that setup figured out, and now I have to shift my thinking around.

Honestly, it's not the first time. It'll likely not be the last. And it reminds me that I probably had ought...
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So it's been a damned long time since I posted. So what? I've been busy; time with my lady love, and more time running away from storms. So, yeah, that's why.

But now I'm back. Again. And I hope that people appreciate that.

Alright, then, things are going as I fully expected them to; I am once again looking at a mad dash through parts of the South before settling in to get back to work at school. Sometimes I wonder why I do this to myself. Then I remember that I am getting paid to read. It's a nice job--inside work with no heavy lifting--and I generally...
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So, the Olympics are going on, complete with the over-commercialized hypocrisy attendant on athletic events and international gatherings. I did enjoy seeing the results of the womens' saber event, and I am paying attention to the other martial arts events going on. It is a disappointment, though, that the major news media do not show them, especially given the general public taste for such endeavors--at...
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Though it is not exactly a triumphant return, I ma back. I'm not sure that there's anything else to be said about it at the moment. Surely, I'll think of something else at some point.