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1. Best bad weather driving advice noted before speeding through tornado alley the other day: “If you see a tornado, drive in the other direction.” Drive…in…the…other: noted.
\n2. Never slept on a Sleep Number bed, and I don’t know my sleep number. Crashed hard last night on a perfectly new air mattress here in Detroit City. Since there aren’t any coils in the mattress, I’m not sure the Sleep Number is calculable. Only when I rolled to my side did I sometimes bottom out, which meant my Sleep Number was scalable (where’s my calculator?), and which meant D., over on the other side, was perfectly elevated on a firm bed of pressure (variously taut). It’s not Erdos, but, well, may be the grounds for an interesting (if only to me) social analysis. Oh, and I slept fine, which is good because we’re off to NY later today.
\n3. Glad to have Clancy’s link<\/a> to Berube’s questionnaire<\/a>. A certain family member started to riff on Kerry this morning (more talk on presidential politics, candidacies and damage control voting). No need to bruise close relationships with political hypotheticals. I didn’t even bring up the torture question. Children in earshot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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