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Hello new readers.  I'm glad to have you around. Please feel free to comment and let's get to know one another. What a week this has been! An earthquake rattled Japan (yes, I realize that technically that happened last week, but it was within the past seven days) and a tsunami came in and took away so much; nuclear reactors are damaged and malfunctioning; Sunday we got to turn the clocks ahead one hour :  Yippee more daylight in the evening!!; Monday was Pi day (this must be something important only to math majors, as I've never heard of it until Muffie wrote about it); and Tuesday was the fateful Ides of March that was so worrisome to Hamlet. Can you hear it? "Beware the ides of March..." Doom is looming. Even so, I feel pretty much the same as I always do, for better or worse, and my only concern is that I get to chair the meeting tomorrow, as our president has a lot on her plate this week. My brother, who lives in Tokyo, has written that he and my nephew ar...

Oh dear. I went to my Facebook account tonight, and imagine my surprise when I see on my home page, or whatever it's called, the icon for this blog (the blue chair) linked to my account (which is in my real name as it is mostly used for family news). I really did not appreciate that, and hope it wasn't noticed by anyone who I wouldn't want to read this. Not that I say much of anything here that is truly secret, but it is nice to write with the illusion of anonymity, you know? It is, after all, why I use a  pseudonym. So, for the several of you readers who have actually met me, and know my name - that is why I have deleted my Facebook account tonight. Sheez Louise. I hate how Google has meshed everything together.   (for Google) Facebook isn't really my thing. I use it mainly to check in on my much younger relatives, two of whom use it daily. My sorority is starting to use it as well - but, uh uh, it's not for me; SO - another time waster out of my life; In a wa...