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Posted in life on Feb 3rd, 2008
While Sibylle and I were in Manhattan yesterday, so that she could teach, the Lexus was backed into. Again. Regular readers of zanshin will know that in August, while moving into our townhouse, someone visiting the neighbor backed his mini-van in to the right, rear passenger side of the car, doing roughly $1968 damage. On [...]
Posted in random on Nov 20th, 2005
If you live in a large city sooner or later you will see a construction dump truck, or cement mixer, rolling down the road or highway in front of you. They all have the same legend painted on the back:
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGE - STAY BACK 500 FEET
The idea is, by painting this warning (usually [...]
Posted in life on Dec 12th, 2002
Yesterday I ordered some roses for my wife’s birthday. Her favorite rose is called “Sterling”, which is the original lavender colored rose. They are rare and hard to come by these days, as there are other lavender color roses now.
The first shop made a huge deal out of the trouble it would be to get [...]
