As part of my summer travels, I moved from my sister's place in Washington State to my folks' place in Ohio this week. As the last time I traveled to The States, the flight schedule involved some unpleasant experiences, but unlike last time where the memorable highlight was an anonymous hero, this time the memorable highlight is a check-in agent with a black heart.

(This is one of those "too long for anyone to read" story that I'm writing mostly for my own memory, and as a bit of a cathartic measure, because it was a quite frustrating experience, to [...]
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I don't know anything about wine other than "I like" and "I don't like", and I found out today that I really like this 14 Hands Cabernet Sauvignon. My sister-in-law normally has an educated idea about what wines she buys, but today was in a rush and just grabbed this Washington State wine on display at the front of the store.

Apparently it's a fairly cheap (low price) commodity wine available all over America.

My sister-in-law thought it was just okay, but I really liked it.

We're visiting my sister in Bellingham Washington, where all Anthony's American cousins will get together for the first time in four years (this time with one more than last time).

We happen to arrive just in time for cousin Josh (7½) getting to be a bat boy for the first time, at a Bellingham Bells collegiate summer league game. He's attended many games and sat near the dugout, so he knew the players and was super excited at this opportunity (especially since one must normally be at least 11 years old, but they interviewed him and decided he knew enough [...]

Sigh, I spoke too quickly with my previous post.... the nasty Lr5 Publish bug is not fixed in the Lr5.2 beta.

UPDATE (Oct 25): Possible workaround discovered: see here.

I tested for this bug during the runup to 5.2 and though it was fixed, so either it became broken again in the final 5.2 beta build that Adobe released to the public, or, more likely, I just didn't test well enough. 🙁

In either case, the bug remains at least to some extent, so as per my initial post, those working in Publish with Lightroom 5 are advised [...]
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I'm currently on a trip to The States, visiting my sister's family in Washington State, and later my folks in Ohio. I took the opportunity of being here to give shoe retailer Zappos.com a try. My feet are water-ski narrow (US size 13½ width AA), a size that shoes simply aren't made for, but some makers do offer a "N" (narrow) or even "B" (super narrow) sizes, which is at least a step in the right direction to the "AA" (ultra-crazy narrow) width I really need.

So, prior to my trip, I searched Zappo's huge inventory for size 13½ or [...]