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And I also recommend my gentle employer to you as well. The Barnes & Noble Affiliate Network, which seemed to have stopped working, is back in operation, so the links and banners are working again.
Now, go buy some books.
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In Spite of Years of Silence
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Real Live Preacher
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Alas, A Blog
A Fistful of Euros
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The Poor Man
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Fox Den: Creative (i.e. Fiction)Writing
A Pilgrim's Progress
Business/Economics/Future Studies and other Social Sciences
Ian's Knowledge Modelling Weblog
Future Scan: Future Studies Department University of Houston at Clear Lake
PLSJ (aka Anne, the Anthropologist)
link
International
Lost in Transit
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New Jersey New York Pennsylvania and Delaware
Coffee Grounds
Traveling in Style
Slacktivist Recommended with a bullet!
Hoofin To You: Bridgewater, NJ politics
Inadmissible Evidence
Personal/General
Big Black Van
Overflow
In Spite of Years of Silence
Metamorphosism (Mig's new blog)
Real Live Preacher
Blogs with Attitude
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Alas, A Blog
A Fistful of Euros
BuzzMachine
Eschaton
Pedantry
The Poor Man
Barefoot and Naked
Boing Boing
Craigblog
Fafglob
The Road to Surfdom
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E-Mail Me
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What's the Matter with Kansas?
Friday, June 27, 2003
Last week it was wet and cold. For the record, this has been one of the wettest and coolest Junes in New Jersey in many, many years. (I heard the actual stats on the tube the other day, but failed to transfer them to my long term memory...either that or my mind is going to pot faster than I thought it was...) It really bugs me when some of my more conservative friends use this as an arguement against Global Warming. I keep telling them that Global Warming means that more energy is in the system and that it doesn't mean that local temps necessarily have to increase. Of course, if the warming continues, the tropics will be hotter and, eventually, Cape Cod will be sporting palm trees--at least those portions which are not drowned by the rising sea level caused by the melting of the polar ice caps. But those or things my great-great grandchildren will have to deal with, I think.
As I was saying, last week was cold and wet. This week has been really, really hot. Monday we turned on the A/C. Nada! Zip! So we called the nice A/C people who promised to send somebody out the next morning. Tuesday arrived and so did the A/C guy. The downstairs problem was an easy fix. (Somehow the emergency switch had been thrown on the cellar furnace which caused the thermostat not to work. I didn't think of anything so basic.) The upstairs unit was another story. When the A/C guy got here, the compressor was running, albeit very inefficiently, but running none-the-less. At one point, we turned the unit off. It would not turn on again. Seems that the motor's coils had picked just this instant to overheat and short out. It was given A/C last rites and the circuit breaker was ceremoniously thrown to prevent us accidentally starting a fire or something. The soonest a sales rep can show up at our front door (at least from this company) will be July 8th. If I hit the lottery tonight, we'll have somebody installing a new unit tomorrow morning. Otherwise, the 8th might suffice. My fear is that between now and the time the installers show up, it will be unbearably hot, and then, thereafter, it will be one cold front, with attendent storms, after another with the end result being that both the A/C and the pool get used a total of 5 days. It would be just my luck!
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