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Monday
August 12, 2019

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monday morning, cloudy, low 60s,
high of 77 predicted, 80%
humidity. going to west
seattle to dismantle jan's
deck
, rearrange layout,
replace delaminating
composite boards,
guaranteed for 30 years,
barely lasted 10. that's how it is,
technology keeps improving but
the standards are slipping.
the only way to move the
economy forward is
planned obsolescence--
break it, replace it. when
i was a kid people rented
their phones from Ma
Bell
and those black
rotary doorstops
lasted
50 years or more. now
it's expected (almost
required) to upgrade
every 3 years to the
latest surveillance
device
and pay for
the privilege of it spying on you. that's progress, i guess. and so concludes
today's forecast...       (but! to their credit, my makita tools last and last.)
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