Day Trip to Santa Barbara for our 40th Wedding Anniversary

We took a day trip to Santa Barbara on Saturday to celebrate our 40th anniversary together. We noshed on great food, checked out the beach and the Botanic Garden (with our senior discount ?!?!?!?), and lunched and picked up a bottle of bourbon at a local distillery. A grand day out!

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Mass intoxication first requires small, private capitulations. The force of the group substitutes for the weakness of the individual.
-- Alexander Karn (@xankarn)

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Anyone who slaps a "this page is best viewed with Browser X" label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.
-- Tim Berners-Lee (Technology Review (July 1996))

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A problem is a difference between things as desired and things as perceived.
-- Donald Gause & Gerald Weinberg (Are Your Lights On?)

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PPE gloves. These have multiple use cases for me.

Because I read manuals, I came to the conclusion that they're also very suitable for protecting me on my cycling machines

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