Oregano ruins anything it touches.
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A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander
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Hate to say it, but I’m ready for fall.
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Zawojski said he once mistakenly received mail from the Crooks house, but never engaged with the family members directly even as he returned the mail to their porch. “I couldn’t even tell you what they look like,” he said.
Sadly, this is much of America in the age of streaming services and smart phones. I’ve got a neighbor two doors down that I’ve lived next to for 6 years and have only seen him 2 or 3 times to get his DoorDash from the porch.
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Goodbye, ol’ Suby. You were a great car for the 11 years you were mine. I probably took this car to 30 states on road trips. Sold to a friend’s son as his first car, hopefully he gets another 100k out of it.
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I got tired of my polycarbonate lenses always scratching, so last year I sent in my WP frames to Eyeglasses.com and had real glass lenses put in. No scratches. I love them.
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I dragged a friend to the Les Savy Fav show and I don’t think they knew what they were getting into.
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Downgrading your Verizon bill be like.
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Decided I’m abandoning my affiliation with the Democratic Party and will become an independent (small “i”) voter. Between sidelining Bernie in 2016 and now attempting to block 3rd party access to state ballots, this system needs to be systematically demolished and rebuilt.
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Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by green plants and stored in the form of complex carbon molecules. A food chain is a system for passing those calories on to species that lack the plant’s unique ability to synthesize them from sunlight.
Excerpt from The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
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It was only 93° today.
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My sister got lucky
Married the yuppie
Took him for all he was worth
—Tom Petty
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Finished reading: Guts: A Graphic Novel by Raina Telgemeier 📚
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Our back patio is usually chaos. Zoey doesn’t seem to mind. She says she could do without the heat, though.
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Currently reading: The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan 📚
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Summers in Portland have felt more like Redding every year. We now have 3 official seasons: rain, smoke, and scorching hot.
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Started reading: White Bird: A Wonder Story (A Graphic Novel) by R. J. Palacio 📚
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Roughing it, obviously.
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I see you, Cannon Beach.
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Happy to see more EV chargers at state parks & campgrounds across Oregon.
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Glamping supreme. Ask me if I brought the portable AC. 🏕️
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Countdown to camp. For all the money we’re spending on this, we could’ve stayed at a pretty nice hotel with a pool. 🏕️
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It’s going to be around 100° the next four days. We walked around the neighborhood on the early side and stopped to listen to the bullfrogs at the wetlands. The creeping thistle looked neat. The bees looked happy.
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I worked as a cook at P.F. Chang’s in college. Whenever someone finds out about this, about half the time they say “I love their chicken lettuce wraps!”
Then I break the news to them that it’s just ground up and fried chicken fat and skin, the stuff that normally gets thrown away.