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I recently ordered a couple of [these](<http://bugasalt.com/). Shoots a pinch of table salt 3-5 feet to snuff household pests.

Note Added Later: My list of “direct books” is revised in a later post on this topic. Look here for that update.

To their credit, notice the trigger fingers of these two officers. They’re doing it right. Bravo!

Today’s Plan
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July 27, 2012

Help me this day to become aware of the opportunities you put before me. Give me the strength to act upon them, the patience to see them through, and help me find the humility to accept your plan over mine.

The 12V light bulbs on the underside of our kitchen cabinets drop (go dark) like a nest of wasps hit with Raid Wasp and Hornet spray – bunches of them drop all at once.

Family First
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July 23, 2012

If I had been sitting in that theater in Aurora, my first priority would’ve been to get my wife and family out of there.

While there are several ASCII to Morse code translators out there, I haven’t seen the encoding used herein. It is slightly denser than most and should work nicely in machines with a tight memory constraint.

On this day in 2012 with the horror of the shooting in a Denver suburb movie theater blanketing the news, I am newly reminded of the incredible and sometimes terrifying range of what it is that we call, human.

History

EDSkinner.net began in 2023. Fiction and non-fiction publications are included as well as (blog) posts and supplemental materials from flat5.net (2004-present).

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