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    Tomatoes

    Every year I plant a few tomato plants in my back yard. For some reason mine usually grow to be huge (27 years of mulch mowing? very heavy watering?), sometimes with monster crops. This year I planted a Big Beef and a Big Boy. The resulting plants were so big they broke my stakes and took down...
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    First Hospitalization

    After my recent Alaska trip I was recovering from a cold when I got hit with what I figured was the flu. I lost my appetite (a first) and all energy while maintaining a fairly impressive cough. I was finally sleeping about 23 hours a day and barely had the energy to stand. I could not tolerate...
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    Alaska Cruise / Ferry Trip

    I have just returned from a 23 day trip up and down coastal Alaska via cruise ship and ferry. I flew into Vancouver BC Saturday (June 13), arriving about midnight. I found a nice lounge to kill 8 hours in - tables, outlets, toilets, water ftn, vending machines and read, watched movies (on...
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    More Retirement benefits cut

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    Cycling the San Juans

    I just got back from 9 days in Washington. After spending a few days in Vancouver with friends, they all went home (someone has to work) and I Amtrak'ed / local bused it over to Anacortes, then ferried over to San Juan Island. The weather was perfect and I got in 3 days of excellent cycling...
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    aborted bike ride

    I decided to try Amtrak's roll-on/off bicycle program this week, where you can just roll your bike onto certain trains with no box, hang it on a bike hook, then roll it back off at your destination. Not only do you not have to coordinate getting a bike box, but you can debark at smaller stations...
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    Alaska Ferry Trip

    I just returned from an 18 day vacation in Southeast Alaska. I have been to Ketchikan a few times before, but wanted to see more, so I decided to use the Alaska Marine Highway ferry system. On one of my previous Ketchikan trips I had taken the 37 hour ferry ride from Bellingham to Ketchikan and...
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    Cities sue gangs in bid to stop violence

    Cities sue gangs in bid to stop violence - Yahoo! News I would like to be there (at a distance) when they try to serve the papers
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    Ouch

    Reaching into my tomato plant to see if one was ripe (5 so far, 14oz - 1lb 3oz), came back with a bee stinging on my wrist. This plus watching a nature video last night on nasty bugs got me wondering - anyone ever run into any bites/ stings worse than a bee ? My worse was a fuzzy black wasp in...
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    Retirees who trusted their broker

    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fi-retire17dec17,1,815465.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage
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    Retired

    Signed out yesterday at work, and bicycled home (after moving the termination interview up to 11am from 1230 because I was bored). I was glas I had the extra time, because . . . I found out that FSA money had to be spent by your termination date, so I spent the next 3 hours getting an eye exam...
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    Finally made it

    I finally gave notice today, effective Oct 20. A lifetime of saving and 13 years of investing left me in a position that when work became untenable, I was able to leave. I have worked as a programmer for 27 years, mostly in aerospace, then moving to financial programming the last 8 years. I...
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    how about 14% SWR

    Experts say retirees can spend about four percent of their assets each year. But more than a-third of respondents thought retirees could spend up to 14 percent a year. http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?feed=AP&Date=20060515&ID=5722022
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    The anti-ERs

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060329/us_nm/life_work_dc
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