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Pro Android is a detailed look at application development on Google's Mobile OS published by APress. The book is written by Sayed Hashimi and Satya Komatineni. I am later of those two. This book covers the Android API all the way to its current public release which is 1.5.

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You can use this document to find out how to recycle old or used books and also clothes. Especially through goodwill. They take both clothes and books and perhaps more.

They are open from mon-sat until 6pm. They are closed on sunday. They don't seem to have drop off boxes outside anymore.

Did you converse, sir, with this gentlewoman?
What is the course and drift of your compact?

From Comedy of Errors

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concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions

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A simple recipe that worked quite well for cooking canned royal red salmon. It is full of fish oils and tastes pretty good too.

Smoked Turkey
Croissant (Sandwich)
Sliced Tomatoes
Caramalized Onions
Honey Mustard
Spinach leaves
Brie Cheese

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Spaghetti Ingredients

Mullers 16 ounce spahetti or angel hair pasta
A pot that can hold about a gallon of water
A bit of salt for taste
2 or 3 table spoons of olive oil
Collander: Some thing to drain the pasta

How to make the spaghetti

1. Boil the water with a bit of salt

2. Pour the spahgetti or angel hair pasta

3. For spahgetting about 12 minutes and for angel hair 5 to 6 minutes

4. Turn off the heat

5. Pour the boiling pasta and water into the collander that is in the sink

6. Pour a couple of table spoons of olive oil in the empty pot

7. Pour the drained pasta into the pot that is covered with olive oil

8. Mix the past until it is properly coated with the olive oil

Ingredients for meat sauce

A quarter to half a pound of ground meat
Any medium Prego or similar vegetable or meat tomato sauce
Garlic powder
Adobo seasoning
Black pepper
Red pepper
Very very little salt if needed

How to make the meat sauce

1. Take a pot and throw the ground meat in it. No need for oil.

2. Add garlic powder, adobo seasoning, black pepper, and red pepper.

3. Heat for about 20 minutes until the meat turns brown or the water evaporates

4. Throw in the prego sauce (all of it)

5. Heat on low for 20 to 30 minutes while mixing it a few times

Serving instructions

Good for packing lunches for kids if they have a microwave available. Saves well in the fridge for the week.

No, No, No. No, I don't describe me that way. I am as straight an arrow as there is one in its shape and in its path. Brilliance needs a scheme, and legerdemain that I am not just born with.

But I do admit that I am an easy target as a tested parent. Very suscepting to whining especially when paired with tears that don't seem to stop.

I pick up Narayan and Kavitha between 5 and 6 in the evenings and occasionally there is an errand or two to attend to. That hour of the evening seem to be set aside for unexpected events. Over years I have seen it all. Soiled underwares, pants and even shirts. At times my son seem to be a walking frgrance. When all else seemed normal he would just throw up in the car just in case If I am not paying attention as a parent but wondering how pretty the evening was. And he would be fine as soon as we get home. So I thought the answer is keep a towel in the car. So by that logic half my house is in the car. There is the pillow. there is the blanket. There is a hair brush. A combination of edibles both new and discarded. A fridz in the trunk ....All I need is a self generating nuclear reactor so that I am prepared for all emergencies that seem so routine

JCA is like a guarded and elongated fortress that is built for people with a chip on their forehead so that they can be checked as they move every feet. After going through this maze and emerging with my two kids I must have counted 30 times because Narayan had this incredible urge to pass water. And 5 minutes prior to that while we were in the presence of such a facility he was absolutely certain he was dry as a desert. I surrendered to this argument everytime albeit with clenched teeth.

And we would be visiting publix and in the middle of the aisle he HAD to use the restroom, this time as he describes it with twisting legs that the need is a longer one but he could make it a shorter one. So there isn't a bathroom that we haven't visited in the course of a few years.

Yesterday, we were in Micahels. It is a store no man should enter. We were there for display boards for a project for Kavitha. This is one bathroom that we had never vistited. After many inquiries we found it cornered. No getting away from Narayan. We walk in and there is the sink. Everything in order and clean. We pull the door to the toilet. It is locked. I told him he would need to wait his turn. Well he was not about to. He bent down and saw there was no one in there. We pulled the door again and it was locked. There is no key hole to lock it. As I was wondering to the mystery how on earth it got locked from inside, the 6 year old was already half way through the opening half of him inside and half outside saying he could open it.

I was thinking "ok he had to go, so he is going to head for the toilet". Instead he opens the door from inside and says "oh that is simple to open this door!!". It all happened in a split second.

I was scratching my head "who is brilliant!" who locked the door from inside and gone or Narayan that this seemed routine to walk under and open the door. It just didn't occur to me that was a solution. Well this kid should teach a course on out-of-the-box (or toilet) thinking.

But again if I weren't gullible or not overly impressive father with his son, I suspect the sneaky guy had done this before.

song: My Stolen Identity

Full many a glorious morning have I seen 
Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, 
Kissing with golden face the meadows green, 
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; 
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride 
With ugly rack on his celestial face, 
And from the forlorn world his visage hide, 
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace: 
Even so my sun one early morn did shine 
With all triumphant splendor on my brow; 
But out, alack! he was but one hour mine; 
The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now. 
Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth; 
Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth.

Wes Davis

book: Seven Pleasures by Willard Spiegelman

Is there a time for keeping your distance
A time to turn your eyes away
Is there a time for keeping your head down
For getting on with your day
.....
Is there a time to run for cover
A time for kiss and tell
Is there a time for different colours
Different names you find it hard to spell

( it's said that a river
Finds the way to the sea
And like the river
You shall come to me
Beyond the borders
And the thirsty lands
....
)
....
Is there a time for tying ribbons
A time for christmas trees
Is there a time for laying tables
And the night is set to freeze

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"You need to make up your mind. Where do you want to go?" taking a 6 year old to lunch is not always unannoying.

"No fancy place! Please, Dad! No fancy place"

"Why not?"

"You have to wait for a long time."

Urgency of food seem to trump the clearly trivial matters. That's how one day we were sitting under this hairy ape at Larry's subs. I see his eyes measuring the place and his fingers and hands and then his teeth twisted to make himself look like a giant ape. Finally here is the kindred mind that gets the decor.

"Wow! Dad, I know"

"What is it that you know"

"This place is expired by King Kong!!"

belay

As much as I enjoy ice climbing it's one of those activities that I often wish were over while I'm actually doing it

Poignyant but a strange collection of words to see in an English Journal. Another word: Vajrabhirava from the same article

Arctic Sea and the Polar Ice Cap

ineluctable

Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks
...
I greatly fear my money is not safe

The full text of the paragraph from the Comedy of Errors

Upon my life, by some device or other
The villain is o'er-raught of all my money.
They say this town is full of cozenage,
As, nimble jugglers that deceive the eye,
Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind,
Soul-killing witches that deform the body,
Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks,
And many such-like liberties of sin:
If it prove so, I will be gone the sooner.
I'll to the Centaur, to go seek this slave:
I greatly fear my money is not safe.

Cozenage - trickery and artifice

Legends and Lyrics

How small a thing is art, A little pain;
disappointment, and any man feels a depth - a boundlessness of emotion,
inarticulate thoughts no poet has ever succeeded in imag[in]g.
Death does not conquer me, I conquer death
I am the master