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Seasick

Temporarily homeless, the Jones' boat was the best I could do. Spinney had promised to shift me to something more suitable ASAP. But for now, I was "boat sitting" for the Jones family, and they had allocated the dusty forward berth for the sitter.

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Herbs

In graduate school, my focus was on maritime communities. For anyone who has read more than one or two posts in this blog, that's no surprise.

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Widget

Miss Piggy, our OR supervisor, would tell you in strong terms that it was her job to run an OR, not to cater to a technician's foibles.

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Raffish

My shops tend to get set up wherever there is room; esthetics be damned.

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Dummies

It was reported elsewhere on the internet today that this was National Merry-Go-Round Day. How appropriate.

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Utility

workers spend money on foolish things every year. Why? We see it on the web in a video or the catalog and realize that it is the solution to a problem we do not have. So out flashes the credit card, and next week we are looking for storage space for the new item.

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Cool

"Don't rain on my parade!" The young woman who whispered this to me did so as I pointed out that the exact idiom used in 1965 had been just "cool," not "like cool."

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Whirlwind

The sixties and early seventies were a time of complications for radicals, conservatives, and drones.

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BOX

I bought this as a light box to photograph small items for the e-commerce site I'l planning on starting