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We'll start with a little bit of information about me. I live in the Central Time Zone in the USA (GMT minus 6), in the state of North Dakota, home of the geographic center of the North American continent. I live in a small town, under 10,000 population. I'm old enough to have grown children and grandchildren¹. I'm disabled (with lung problems and congestive heart failure) so I don't have a full-time job. I do, however, spend most of my time sitting for two of my grandsons and volunteering at a nearby school. Hobbies and activities include hunting and various of the shooting sports (T/C Contender for those in the know), various crafts, and reading. I'm a compulsive reader. Favorite authors include DNA (naturally), Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, O. Henry, and a lengthy list of Sci-Fi authors. I still enjoy Dr. Seuss with the grandchildren. Favorite edibles include black coffee², green tea (Imperial Gunpowder), Golden Delicious apples, and popcorn. Oh, yes. Another thing we can't forget is music. Classical music!

I have been asked how old I am. I'll tell you, but only as a mystery. You'll still have to figure it out. I was born on the same day of the year as St. Augustine, Whoopi Goldberg, and the author Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island). I was born in the same year as the authors Tom Clancy (Hunt for the Red October), and Salman Rushdie (Satanic Verses). The year I was born also gave us such inventions as the microwave oven and "Tupperware". Here are two more clues³ if you need them, but these are a giveaway. As far as the time of day goes, I just tell people that I was born four minutes after high noon and have been "out to lunch" ever since⁴.

I am on the staff⁵ of Sassy, a cat with an attitude. She's a DSH⁶, about half Siamese. The only way you can tell she has any Siamese in her is by her color. I think you would call her color a light seal point. She does not have the narrow features of the Siamese nor does she sound like a Siamese. She does, however, have the Siamese attitude. She is a very heavy⁷ cat. It seems she likes to jump up on the waterbed just at a time when I'm relaxing and usually manages to disturb me. Or she'll lay right in the middle of the hallway and then complain when I stumble over her. She is just ornery enough that I signed her up for her own place in the Cantankerous Cats' Corner in P.U.D.D.I.N.G.

Thought of the Week

42isms:

         (2*0*5)+(9*4)+6 = 42
      ((2*0)!+5)*(9+4-6) = 42
       -(2*0)!+(5*9)+4-6 = 42
     (2+0)*((5*9)-(4*6)) = 42

       If: 6 * 9 = 42
     Then: ((2*0)!+5) = 6  and  (-9+4!-6) = 9
Therefore: ((2*0)!+5) * (-9+4!-6) = 42

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Before you leave my space, I would like to leave you with a little story from Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast". It goes like this:

While looking around to see what everyone was doing for Personal Spaces, I came to feel a certain kinship with the skipper of that little sloop. How eloquently that single word, "only", expresses humility. After seeing the elegance, the artistic imagination, the style of other spaces, I can only hope my endeavors are adequate to the task.