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Happy Memorial Day Week-end, folks!

- Thankyou to all veterans of the USA, past n present. May all you've worked for remain perpetually for future generations. I truelly respect your vocation n sacrifice.



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For most folks, sadly, this week-end is nothing but a party excuse.
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Where I grew up Metro-West of Boston, we used to trek down to the main road for a ferociously loud n long parade before our BBQ every year.
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What a hellacious work week-end I just endured! My arms hurt just typing. Not only have we been getting the sporadic seasonal heat, but it manages to only be bright n sunny on my work-days lately. I spent my available cloudy daylight time today trying to tie-up some loose ends out on the deck. I puttered with plants n finally cleaned fans. Tomorrow may be 80 degrees F as we had for a few days last week. If so, it'd be preferable to have the option of an indoor breeze I did without yesterday.
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I can't just turn on last years fans uncleaned in here, like normal people. Sending the winter dust all over the house is a big no-no with dust-mite allergies.
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One of my co-workers came in with badly swollen eyes this week, n I work to avoid that painful symptom at all cost. Keeping contaminants out of the eye is priority, constant washing with bottled tears a close second. I lent the poor girl some drops, n hope she decides to go get her own. Avoidance as preventive maintainance is most of the allergen battle. (Hmmm, I should look that one up in Portuguese).
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The major pollen head-aches are currently Oak n grasses. It's forming a visable scuz-layer over the cove's glassy surface today. Tomorrow's day off expecting rain showers again, hopefully washing the air out a bit.
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I haven't managed more than three continious sleep-hours in a row since the neighbors came in Thursday (It's Sunday). N they all wonder why I'm grumpy...
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Before I can get even some goodies cooked to eat up tonight, I still need to re-assemble all the fan parts I left to dry all over the kitchen table when the daylight dwindled. For some one trying not to do stuff, I seem to have no shortage of things piled up to fill my time.
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Now lets see if I can handle holding my arms up to use that screw-driver again...
Hopefully I can find some rested free time before this summer's over, if the party-people will let me...
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Without the freedom, there would be No Party, folks!
... Remember the sacrifices -