cmkl: Stiff arm

I spent most of today at my dad’s place, wielding heavy duty gardening gadgetry. My dad runs a gardening business and lately his place is proof of the saying about the cobbler’s kids not having shoes. Of course I’m not exactly used to the vibration and…

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cmkl: One down six to go

Today we launched one of the seven websites I need to relaunch this summer. There are still some rough patches, but it’s mostly there. I hope this will start a deluge of site launching. It’s not good timing for projects that need a lot of people’s coop…

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cmkl: And now I brace myself

If last night is any indication, we’re about 40 minutes off from the start of screaming. Mallory went down like a ton of bricks, half an hour ago, dosed withe Benadryl as she was. Irene put her to bed tonight and happily kept the Ibuprophen in reserve.

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cmkl: Two hard drive failures

It’s a sign of something. Within days of each other the drive on Irene’s Macbook Air and one of the mechanisms in my desktop computer fail. One more spectacularly than the other. The Macbook Air drive I can at least see it when I boot from an external …

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cmkl: Rights versus the economy

In uniondom we talk a lot about the ‘right to free collective bargaining’. I expect most of us realize the meaning of that phrase is lost on most people in the country and even on most amongst union members. If anyone asks me my professional opinion, I…

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