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\nThis must be the 4th or 5th odd wreck photo I used this year. There isn’t much special about this one, except I thought it funny that the business, a consignment furniture place, calls itself Once & Again<\/span>. How many times do the police see these sorts of things? Do you suppose the 911 dispatcher and the police make jokes?<\/p>\n
Item #2: Confused<\/span> Item #3: Busy <\/span> <\/p>\n I have been reading this week, but not searching for news. And that, for this week, is the not so nasty news. My bit is short this week. See Item #3. Item #1: Again? This must be the 4th or 5th odd wreck photo I used this year. There isn’t much special about this one, except I thought it funny that the business, a consignment furniture place, calls itself Once & Again. How many times do the … Continue reading “Not so Nasty News Nov 22nd”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-2zh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9877,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9875\/revisions\/9877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe image at the right is an advertisement that appeared on my monitor this week. I usually ignore such things, but I looked at this one and wondered why I was getting it pushed at me.
\nI was confused by the text and the lady of the image.
\nThe words “for the little ones<\/em>” and the person did not seem to relate.
\nWhat are they selling, other than the dress?
\nShe is likely a very nice lady \u2013 no disrespect intended \u2013 but she is not one of the little ones.
\nI did not click on the ad to find out more. <\/p>\n
\nOne of our geography colleagues is working on a book about a 2nd colleague that has had an amazing life that went in odd directions. Prior to Nancy’s illness [that was 10 years ago] he wrecked on a bike, tore up the left side of his head, and rearranged some stuff in his brain that the best doctors in Seattle don’t understand. Then his 2nd wife, of 20 years, gave a 12 hour notice that she found someone else \u2013 and moved out. He has managed to get through the last 10 years with some help from a son from the first marriage.
\nSo the book is his story as he tells it, in a “voice” or manner of a person with an odd early life and a scrambled period following a stint as a university professor. He is several years younger than me, and now has good physical health. So the story is not over.
\nThe book is transcribed from interviews and Nancy and I are reading a draft.
\nSo maybe next week I can find some more “Not So Nasty News.”<\/p>\n
\nJohn <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"