My brother said I had to try 9-Minute Oil & Lube in Palo Alto since
it has a 5-star rating on Yelp with 199 reviews. This morning I went to
get my hair cut with the kids, and I went to 9-Minute Oil & Lube
since my hair stylist is conveniently only about 100 feet way. I was
very [...]
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I rode to work Monday through through Thursday. On Wednesday night, I heard a loud scraping sound coming from my front brakes, and I thought a pebble had become embedded in the grooves of my brakes. It turned out my front left brake was worn through to its left metal mount. The spare brakes I [...]
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All I want to watch with the kids on the morning news is cars driving through flooded streets and houses falling into the ocean due to this wonderful California weather, but then the newscast is ruined by the hunt for Tiger in Hattiesburg, Misssissippi and John Edward’s real life Grisham novel shenanigans.
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I remember reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair in high school and reveling in the gory tales of human body parts and other contaminants entering the assembly line of the meatpacking plants of Chicago. In college, I would read Diet for a New America and have the image of hundreds of chickens soaking in shit [...]
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First time E rode his 20″ and A rode her 24″ on the Stevens Creek Trail to the MV Boat House and back. E got pretty muddy on his offroad excursions. We made very good time with lack of wind and bigger bikes.
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There’s a 97-year old lady who works (well, more volunteers than works since she said she retired at 82) at my daughter’s ballet school. Yesterday, while my daughter was getting fitted for her costume for the Nutcracker, I spent a half hour talking to her. She said she first danced on the stage at the [...]
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USPS projects it will handle fewer than 187 billion pieces of mail this year, down from 213 billion pieces three years ago. http://tinyurl.com/r4yscr
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About 6 inches of light, fluffy snow should fall here in Georgetown, Massachusetts for the last day of the year. We all did a bit of shoveling today, and Ally and Evan made snow angels. Marion, Jen, and Ally went to pick up the new Toyota Corolla, but the traffic was so bad, they decided [...]
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An Enduring Measure of Fitness: The Simple Push-Up - New York Times
Based on national averages, a 40-year-old woman should be able to do 16 push-ups and a man the same age should be able to do 27. By the age of 60, those numbers drop to 17 for men and 6 for women. Those [...]
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