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And so, about a week ago, I ordered a tool for the shop called a compact circular saw. It's an electric saw for making straight cuts in wood and I'll use it in place of the commercial-duty model that I bought about 35-40 years ago when I was working part-time framing houses.

That one is a great saw, still in almost-new condition, with a metal case, edge guide, etc. But it's just too big and heavy for me to easily use anymore and it's simply much more than what I need in my basement workshop these days. I used to joke that, when I started it, it would brown-out half the city, that's how powerful it is.

But anyway, I started looking at these newer compact saws, which can still be used commercially in certain applications, and I thought, I don't need that, not really. Well, I could probably use it occasionally. But gee it's really kinda cool-looking, and I might use it sometimes, it's so nice and light and, actually, I think I've gotta have it because life is just too short anyway and I just don't think that I can live without it.

So, you see, there was a fairly lengthy but totally rational thought process involved in this decision. And, with that said, I think you can see why I might have some trouble explaining, I hesitate to say... justifying, ouch, that hurt, this very necessary, perhaps even crucial, purchase to my daughter.

But you won't tell her, will you. I know. That's why I love this weird sort of, I'm-right-here-but-you-can't-see-me, anonymity of the internet...

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We had a different sort of evening at home than we normally have. That is, we had an evening at home. My wife and our youngest daughter, who lives with her boyfriend's parents, had walked up the street for a baby shower at the home of a childhood best friend and afterward walked back to our place where our daughter had parked her car.

Her Nurseliness had made sure that this was one of her days off, so that they could attend; she's actually been taking some days off in the interest of possibly surviving until retirement. Work has gotten even more difficult recently because the new Nurse Manager, who took over the scheduling, doesn't have a clue and they end up working short on a unit where the accuities were always high to begin with.

Our youngest is the mother of identical twin girls who are now about 18 months old and between having the girls to take care of and working full time, we don't see her as often as we'd like. But because the little girls were in the care of their other grandmother for the evening, Sarah was able to stay for dinner and a movie.

It wasn't a big deal--I picked up pizza and wings at the neighborhood pizzeria, the one that says, "We treat you like family"--and we watched a movie that my grandson and I really like, Julie Taymore's Across the Universe. It features some 40 Beatles songs, the characters take the names of the people in them, like Maxwell Silverhammer, Sadie, and Jude, and the story plays out against the backdrop of events in the 1960s.

It's sort of a cult piece, a love story that's at once quirky and heartwarming and maybe sort of cool, if you happened to have lived through it in real life. My wife commented that it's sort of like a history lesson but more real and a lot more fun. And our grandson actually loves the Beatles, weird little kid that he is. Cut him some slack, I guess, considering the household where he's grown up, LOL.

Anyway, we had the pizza and wings and the movie and a rare evening together. My son and his GF didn't attend, maybe because he was scheduled to drive out of town at 2 AM or because they're still under the illusion that they can have kids and still have their own lives. But it was, for the rest of us, a nice evening...

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