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ha!! put the boilerplate in italics instead of blockquote. This is to celebrate the pope's visit!
That's the oldest continuous boilerplate on any daily DK blog! HA! You're looking at record there people
So--- been all over the map again---California again. 5 days, 1400 miles.
this was about family---driving my son and his family to Chico, then driving to San Rafael CA to visit my 94 y/o dad. I'm a native Bay Arean but nowadays I just can't get out of there fast enough. $5 to cross the Richmond San Rafael Bridge? and the bad news was it took me 45 minutes of sitting in traffic before I could even inch up to the toll booth. 5 lanes going into 2.
The only traffic I ever sit in is when I go to California. Of course the poor dears are used to it by now but visiting firemen! Poor California: so far from Heaven, so close to Mexico.
(shakes head sadly)
So anyway, lets set the Music Box to ---oh what the heck---lets hear some Zydeco.
Queen Ida? waddaya got for us? Rosa Majeur? Eh la ba
(I have talked and Danced with this lady)
Tonight I'm going to see my Chere Mio
In Grand Mamou