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Bill here and four (4) (short) MONTHS til Christmas but that’s not a major point here, now, today. Just FYI. Lots of news, most of it worthy but all good AND Fun. YO Ming called. His 'fright' was 'derayed' but he has been killing time at airport lounges, boarding areas and even on the ramps and he has not been idle. He claims to have has some ‘excerrent’ material in the can.

This remains to be seen.

Emma checked in. She is back in Oz having returned safely from US OF A but insists she is NOT out of the woods yet so she is remaining on the Prayer List.

I was in the bank today, rather more correctly the CREDIT UNION, and came up with a new & novel keystroke-saving best practice (AKA ‘time saver’) in the longer run I will share momentarily.

All good.

As you can see, the machine is fixed, repaired OR tuned up. Whatever you prefer to refer to it as.

Roaring nicely the exception being the broken hinge on the drivers side. So the machine can still park in the ‘HANDICAP’ spaces when available.

I myself have a couple entries in the can but I am playing serious ketchup and that may alleviate itself here soon so more on that in a moment as well.

HEY, ROADKILL BAIT, HOW MANY OF THE MOMENT CARDS ARE YOU GOING TO USE ?

May you be washed away or at least cleansed in the next storm of Biblical proportions, por favor.

The first item of new biness struck me while filling out the paper form at the CU. I SWEAR banking used to be so much easier, faster & quicker when tellers were smarter and the computers were fewer and farther between.

The new abbreviations for the months will be two (2) letters as the state abbreviations have become standardized on two for some time.

WHAT ABOUT WHEN TWO MONTHS HAVE THE SAME FIRST TWO LETTERS ?

You flipping NIMROD. You mean like June & July ?

I am going to send you a full membership subscription refund you flaming idiot if you think I, ME would release such a program listing withOUT thinking about something so, so … OBVIOUS ?

You’re an idiot and please, PLEASE DO NOT even attempt to re-up under an assumed name, por favor.

June will be … No wait a minute. Here’s the entire listing. Print it out & magnet it to your refrig.

January = Ja July = Jy

February = Fe August = Au

March = Mr September = Se

April = Ap October = Oc

May = My November = No

June = Jn December = De

How hard is that ? I am planning on receiving the Nobel Prize for Peace with this one Fans.

There is some positive activity & cause for hope on the job hunting front. Can’t say too much for fear of jinxing myself but this is hot, HOT, so keep up the level of Prayer for your writer por favor.

Hoping to make some sort of announcement in the next 3-6 weeks so ratchet up the prayers. I know I am.

Big HH100 weekend this MAY BE washed away. Hurricane Harvey, now a tropical storm but threatening land as anywhere from a category 2 or 3 or downgrade to a TS. The course or predicted path is wild. All over and anyone's guess.

It’s almost like the weather people with all their instruments & tools CANNOT AGREE on the path the storm will take.

FB & the Wicked Strong contingent from Paradise South have all but backed out. FB is on the A Team of first responders for such emergencies and get this. Her rate of compensation will be $100/hour for a 24-hour shift. Same rate when she is on the sleeping shift at the hospital. How SWEEET is that ? I told her I could use one (1) of those sleeping hours of comp but she is awful tight with the earnings. Makes me proud …

As of this moment, all anticipatiory housecleaning in advance of their visit HAS BEEN SUSPENDED.

My own probability of motoring to WF for the ride is 70-30 % and again I AM watching the weather. I figure I have until about noonish tomorrow to decide. We have the room & the house in WF and have been in comms with the owner & he is good.

So stay tuned.

OK. Post this one & work on a couple more entries backfilling. Do some correspondence and toss together some sort of dinner.

I did go out for some storm essentials just in case. A large (3 #) bag of peanuts, eggs and a large Tillamook strawberry ice cream. Hey, it was a good price & HUGELY marked down aka on sale.

Must move along Fans.

Not feeling an image at the moment so touch & go there with that one.