A dog which has been rescued at sea off the coast of Kesennuma, Japan, was reunited with the owner on Monday more than three weeks after being washed away by the killer tsunami triggered by the March 11 earthquake. Japanese broadcaster NTV aired images of the reunion with the woman hugging Ban and the dog warmly wagging her tail. The dog was rescued on Friday after being found drifting on a roof.
Texteen and I went out this afternoon to get some errands done and to spend some of our gift cards from Chanukah. One of my tutoring families had given me a card for Half-Price-Books and that was our first stop.
The difference between the types of books we each chose has me wondering if I’ve done a great job with him or if I’ve just become shallow myself.
Three notes:
He spent less than I did, even on a per-book basis. (I bought four.)
He doesn’t need this book for school, but he is in philosophy club and thought it would be a cool read.
This isn’t even the most shallow of the books I bough.
What are the rest of the scissorheads reading in 2011?
The recycling contractor our apartment complex uses will accept newspaper, but not cardboard or phone books. So, I could drive all over town dropping our paper-wasting phone books in city recycling bins at the ends of people’s driveways …. or ….
Maybe I can find a local phone book artist who creates amazing sculpture like these:
Why didn’t I think of this first? You’d think with all the complaining and moaning I do about pundits I would have been all over this years ago. I’m so ashamed.
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