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Wed, Jan 31, 2007

RIP Molly Ivins 1944-2007

Posted at 9:18 pm MST to Miscellaneous

Damn. She was a good, witty, writer and a compassionate human being.

She was also only 10 years older than me. These days 63 seems awfully young for someone to die.

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Merry Maids

Posted at 7:53 pm MST to Miscellaneous

It's snowing today (again) but some heroic cleaning ladies slogged through the snow carrying thier vacuum cleaner and supplies. This is the first time they have made it through since early December (the snowblower path made it feasible for them to at least try). They had to dig their car out of a drift when they went to leave.

My cat Dinah (who is very shy) was really funny. At one point she was sitting in the middle of the living room floor with a totally appalled expression on her face, looking back and forth between the two cleaning ladies who were standing in the two exits of the room. When one of the ladies came a little way into the room away from the doorway, Dinah zipped around her and ran to the other end of the house. The last time she saw them was last April, which is a long time for a cat. And I think she doesn't like the sound of vacuum cleaners.

It is so nice to have a clean house. Now if the snow would only melt enough so that the bottled water guy and trash removal trucks could get somewhere near my driveway...

Unfortunately, there isn't likely to be any melting any time soon. The high temperature today was well below freezing, with the same forecast for tomorrow, and more snow in the forecast for tomorrow and Friday.

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