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weather: cool and hazy cloudy, but rainless
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The renter in the apt adjacent to mine owns a small dog.
The renter in the apt above mine may own a cat, but does
own some kind of pet recently acquired.  I have heard it
scampering around, and for several days I thought that
maybe a squirrel had gotten beneath his floor and above
my ceiling, but then I heard him roll a ball and the pet
chasing it.
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Aside from my being allergic to dogs and cats, I have had
one dog and (while I was married) three cats, with each 
of those four experiences ending disastrously.  I could not,
and would not, have a pet of any kind ever again.
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PM 3:47 - Was out doing some groceries-mostly shopping.
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I no longer own a TV, nor do I want to.  I do own 3 radios
I rarely turn on.  Am not as interested as I once was in what
those mediums have to offer.  I never was much of a movie-
goer.  Don't even remember what movie I saw last.  It may
have been 2001.  Stumbling around inside my head interests
me more.  Some would say I'm an online junkie.
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Have spider problems every now and then in this apartment.
Most recent invaders are quite small and are reddish-brown.
Found a spider photos site on which is a picture of more than
a dozen spiders which look exactly what I have encountered.
The picture was taken by a person residing in SW Missouri.
The site owner said they might be Hobo spiders (er, actually,
Hobo spiderlings).  They're members of the Tegenaria family
of spiders.  This member, unfortunately, is venomous.  See
www . spiderz rule . com / photos . htm - read site intro info.
Anyway, even though I'd rather not, I should contact a pest
control company.   [ PM 7:11 - the heat came on ]   Will be
buying some sticky strips, looks like.
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Below are links to two luminous essays:
  Reginald Shepherd's "Why I Write revised"
and
  Tony Hoagland's "Fragments, Juxtaposition, And Completeness:
                                     Some Notes And Preferences"


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Reginald Shepherd's Blog
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Cortland Review  issue 33


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Brian A. J. Salchert