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i'm waiting for an e-mail, so whilst i have a few minutes ...

i was scanning the news on my nexus yesterday morning.  some headline "10 things you need to know about today" or something.  miami herald.  i open.  like 7 of the 10 were stories from the day before.  the remaining 3 imparted no knowledge about the day ahead.  i can cross that off my list.  that's a good thing.

i just looked at drudge for the first time today.  nothing.  either old news or recurring issues with "new" news.  remarkable how stale politics can be.  same old garbage with a different timestamp.

i write here as kinda sorta getting exercise.  i have a story i rammed through, got a feel for the characters, the environment, some events.  now i want to go back to the first word.  not rewrite or macro edit - but to start over.  when i started, i had a line in my head, maybe a setting.  now i have a broader picture.  i want to place myself in that chair in the library and start over.  but when i get home, i just don't have the focus.  too much going on.  so i write here just to keep the fingers nimble.

well this is new news:  According to a detailed report, Kim Jong Un fed his Uncle Jang Song Thaek to a pack of hungry dogs, a deviation from the traditional method of execution by firing squad. "Jang was stripped naked and thrown into a cage, along with his five closest aides. Then 120 hounds, starved for three days, were allowed to prey on them until they were completely eaten up. This is called "quan jue", or execution by dogs." The report, appearing in a Chinese controlled newspaper, stated that the "execution" lasted for one hour and was supervised by Kim Jong Un and "300 senior officials."  ouch.  got that from brietbart.

this is, um, confusing: Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey say that the melting of the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf in Antarctica has suddenly slowed right down in the last few years, confirming earlier research which suggested that the shelf´s melt does not result from human-driven global warming. The Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica and its associated sea ice shelf is closely watched: this is because unlike most of the sea ice around the austral continent, its melt rate has seemed to be accelerating quickly since scientists first began seriously studying it in the 1990s. go figure.  to melt or not to melt, that is the question. whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a ...

gotta run ...