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Saturday's Box
More stuff in my Amazon.com Gold Box Offers, some of it kind of interesting.
.: Zojirushi EJ-PC50 Gourmet Food Steamer: I think this is one of the few kitchen tools that I've been offered that might actually be useful to us.
.: Fiestaware Cobalt 831 4-Piece Place Setting: more cool Fiestaware, but I like the Cinnabar color better.
.: Leatherman 70202003 Juice S2: another tool that I'm going to pass on.
.: That Wine Is Mine "Vineyard" Wine Glass Charms, Set of 6: neither Steven or I drink wine. Pass.
.: Black & Decker FT1000 FlexTube Blower/Sweeper: another tool I don't need.
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I stumbled across your site a while ago and decided this morning that it was time to check back in to see what new scruples were being tested and if there were any more “group things”.
For some reason, I had trouble getting through and got a Check Your Connection message from my browser.
I was worried.
I was considering sending an email to see if the page was moved or abandoned. Then for whatever reason the page came up normally after one more try. I was relieved and clicked on Amazon.com Gold Box Offers just to see what I would see and there was this novel:
"The Lovely Bones
On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey."
"Salmon Like the fish", I thought as I returned to the bowl and my own neuroses kicked in. I thought about how I was worried when the page didn't load. For a moment, I was sort of annoyed with myself for letting my imagination run away with me as if “Mr. Harvey” might have had something to do with my crappy browser but then I realized it was really an amazing phenomenon.
I’m really glad that I was worried about you when your page didn’t load. I hope nothing bad ever happens to you.
I wasn’t worried about the fictional Salmon girl in the book but in some weird way, this Internet technology, your weblog, Amazon’s Gold Box and two sets of memories of childhood Ukrainian nesting dolls enable some crazy international, transcontinental sympathy.
It’s just nice to realize that it is possible to care about people half a world away whom I have never met. A thought like that this early in the morning sort of renews my sense of hope for humanity.
Thank you for giving me that thought.
Have a nice day and take care.
Lan
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