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: The end of my right middle finger got smashed by a window pane tonight. It hurt LF, and I swore a lot. That said, if I'd'n't pull my hand back when I did, then it'd've certainly broken my index, middle, and ring fingers in the middle.

No fun.

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: I got most of my non-series unread fiction tomes into a bookcase today. The rest of the S-Z books of the set are in another room on a shelf.

Note: About 1/8 of these are read, but I keep them in circulation because I reread them periodically, such as "The Silence of the Lambs" and all Agatha Christie mysteries.

: “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

: "If you seek to be outraged, then you will find it, even if you have to struggle to do so. It's quite fashionable and core to many a sense of self and community."

graffiti on the remnants of a Roman wall on Malta, from circa the first century AD/CE

: "It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."

: "If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you end your story."

: Plumbing has been modernized here at the house. I am $7,200 lighter, but it's well worth it.

: The French title makes the film seem like it's maybe about a sauna or perhaps about some kind of sauce.

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