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Sweeter'n Sugar, Pg 7

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      For this part of the storyline, I'm recalling the several cross-country rail trips my family took in the late 1970s and early 1980s, traveling on the Super Chief across the southwest from southern California to the whistle-stop of Streator, Illinois to visit my mother's family.

Terebinth, Page 1,855: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt

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The Terebinth Story Archive      Not quite demonstrating the emotion I think Esther was expecting, there, Trudy...

Sweeter'n Sugar, Pg 6

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      All aboard for adventure!

Sweeter'n Sugar, Pg 5

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Well, so far, things seem to be working with the little fix I found. Let's see if it stays that way!

Sweeter'n Sugar, Pg 4

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      The first "personal computers" began coming out back in the early-1980s when I was in high school. My friends were all more into them than I was, and Dan Goodsell gave me some advice when Mr. Noser was teaching us to program in Basic on TRS-80 machines with cassette-tape storage drives. To make a computer work correctly, Dan said, you have to think like an idiot.      That little phrase has served me well the past 25 years doing the HTML to get these webcomics showing up on your computational device. I mean, you forget one little quotation mark in HTML, and the whole page'll slip over completely skeways. But now? Now, I'm apparently unable to think like enough of an idiot all of a sudden.      The past five years, I've been typing the text part of these pages into Microsoft Word. I then copy and paste it into the ancient graphics program I use, a thing called ...

Terebinth, Page 1,854: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt

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The Terebinth Story Archive      Sometimes, apparently, you just need a squirrel to bite your tail. You probably don't want it, but you definitely need it...

Sweeter'n Sugar, Pg 3

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Sounds like we might be running across the first stirrings of a plot here...