Welcome to my website. This blog is target at me in another country.  That country is old age.  The concept of old age as another country first presented itself to me in a 1995 book by Page Smith called Old Age Is Another Country: A Traveler’s Guide.  The content may server others well.  One reason to serve others appears in the article called What It Was Like. The article “Blogging like it’s 2006” explains why I am writing this website.

The citation mode is generally that of The Chicago Manual of Style as crafted by Zotero. Content and links may appear in both English and Castellano. This page primarily contains computing notes, gardening notes, social science notes, and other reading material.

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