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Goodbye, Irene! She didn't do as much damage as she could have, but for the people there she did enough! Mother Nature can be really tough!

Watched a Japanese film tonight: The Hidden Blade. It was a bit like a cowboy movie except set in feudal Japan. It was a good story about how Western influences were changing things for the samurai. They were being displaced and their values were being eroded. The film was a bit long but moved along well for the most part.

It is a new moon tonight. Weather is staying warm and muggy. Lots of clouds expected over the next few days, but no rain to speak of.

Picked up a book of "stories" in a genre called "hint fiction." It's a set of stories told in 25 words or fewer. Each story has a title and fits on one page of the book and provides a hint to a much larger tale. A model, purported to have been composed by Hemingway, goes--"For sale: Baby shoes, never worn."

The story of my life is a piece of hint fiction! Dreamery, Creamery!