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I thought I’d reached a pretty high level of detachment in relation to the <a href =”http://lay-c.com/hi/archives/001133.html”>car.
Until I opened a credit card bill this evening.
It included charges for $700 – for work we had done following the fire incident. Ouch! It seems there should be some clause for not having to pay for something that you no longer have.
Actually, maybe I should look into that, since it was AmEx – if I had bought a camera and it was stolen, they would reimburse me.

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If you eat a chocolate calcium chew and then apply minty lip balm, it’s quite the taste treat.

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We live at the foot of Punchbowl – the crater that is home to the National Cemetery of the Pacific. One of the strange things about our proximity to such a place, especially in this time of conflict in the world, is that, every once in a while, we are startled by the guns saluting a soldier or veteran as he or she is laid to rest.

Update: Turns out Sunday’s gunshots were part of a memorial service related to World War II.

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Some months ago, I wrote about ER taping at the place I work out and take pottery. So, again, even though I mostly stopped watching the show a few years ago, I had to see the season premiere – just in case I caught a glimpse of the YWCA. Once again, I was disappointed.

BUT, I’m <u>sure</u> from the story-line, and the preview for next week’s episode, that next Thursday will be <u>the</u> night.

I was happy to see Parminder Nagra, of Bend it Like Beckham fame, on the show.

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Thanks for all the sympathy regarding Nelly. We’ve decided to look at the bright side – she was getting on in years, and maybe we would have had to put more money into her for repairs. And we didn’t have much of value in the car – I’d recently removed the movie passes (hah! that’s an extra $15 they <u>don’t</u> get) we normally keep in the glove compartment, as well as my phone charger. We did realize yesterday that Sam’s favorite mug was in the car. But it could have been much worse.

We suspect that she has now been reduced to her parts and sits, an empty shell, somewhere on the island. To me, it’s crazy how popular theft, especially car theft, is on an island – especially one small enough to drive around in a few hours. People also bother to break out of prison, which seems like an exercise in futility – since I’ve lived here, there’ve been several prison breaks, all of which ended in capture.

Our insurance covers a rental – a very good thing, since the bus strike is still going on. I guess in the next week or so, we’ll start scoping out a new car.

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If you happen to see a white 1990 Honda Accord, Hawaii license plate #JYS051, let me know.

Our car was stolen! Sam just called with the news that some dirty rat bastard took the car from the parking lot at work. Okay, those are my words, not his. Sam was quite calm about the whole thing. I am quite peeved. Observe the difference in our personalities.

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I thought I’d share my new-found knowledge.
I just learned a word that you think I would already know, since it’s a synonym for fever: pyrexia.
The related adjectives are pyrexial and pyrexic.
Pyretic is an adjective for what’s causing the fever.
As in, My Strep infection was pyretic.

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In our family, we’ve always had great loyalty to Channel 4 News. No matter how long I’m away from New Orleans, I’m happy to see my old friends behind the news desk and in front of the weather map, when I return. My brothers once had a chant for Hoda Kotb, a 10:00 anchor, whenever she appeared on the screen, and the whole family cried with her when she announced her departure for Dateline NBC.

Another anchor with a special place in our hearts was Bill Elder, a 5:00 anchor. His special line, at the end of his newscast, was “Now, we take you live and direct to the CBS Evening News.” He was part of my life growing up – on the TV in the kitchen, as dinner was being prepared. In 1998, he announced, via a taped message, that he had brain cancer and was going to have surgery. We saddened at the prospect of him being gone – not just from our evening television, but from this world. When he returned to the news, I remember the smile he had on his face as he said, “we take you live and direct to the CBS Evening News.” It was an, “I’m back!” smile. I had a similar one on my face, along with tears of happiness that he’d recovered.

He eventually had to leave the air again. My father just told that he passed away yesterday. I’ll miss you, Bill Elder, a part of our family though we never met.

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I hope this morning’s shower was not indicative of how the whole day will go.

Granted, I was a little extra-sleepy (I got up at 5 am for my conference call, and stayed up later than I wanted, waiting to see if the little press conference I did yesterday hit the news – it didn’t.), but still….

I shampooed my hair. That went well. But then, instead of applying conditioner, I applied an apricot facial scrub to my hair. And I didn’t realize it until after I’d worked it in a bit. I think I was able to rinse the majority of it out (pretty clingy stuff). I’m hoping that when I go to the restroom, now with dry hair, I won’t discover that I look like a Head and Shoulders commercial “before” shot.

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Yesterday, Sam and I signed up for surfing lessons. They don’t start until November, but I am way stoked. It really hit me the other day that I’ve been here a year, and I have yet to try surfing. I decided that needed to change, especially since I quit my other “Hawaiian” class – hula. So, we drove up to the North Shore, and signed up for free classes, offered by the City & County.
(This whole island is the county of Honolulu, and I don’t understand the intricacies but as far as public services go, the city and county are seen as one entity – hence, the City & County of Honolulu.)

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