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 Happy holidays. Yes, we had a dust storm yesterday but minor as these things go. I have seen far worse. Problem really is, no rain in a very long time. It does not take much to raise the dust. Temps are still quite mild for the time of year. 

The dust storm yesterday did not interfere at all with anything I needed to do. It was all over by evening. And it was a nice evening.

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 Forecast today was for high winds and partly cloudy. Right now, clear skies and not a lot of wind. So maybe a reprieve from a crap storm. Of course, Lubbock wouldn't be Lubbock without crap storms.  But maybe not today.

This morning's abundant sunshine is a definite mood elevator!

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 It's a good thing I took so many of these pics. I don't know whether I will have anything with a holiday ambience or not. Happy holidays works for me. I'm not sure where I could go to get a dose of that holiday stuff. 

I'd certainly like to avoid anyplace where there are lots of people! Of course, I always do that. Where there are lots of people, there are lots of annoyances and irritations, and maybe even craziness. Who needs that?

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 I guess I've decided that lots of things are really not worth caring about. I'm keeping it all close to home. And if not close to home, then so abstract as to be purely escapist, and very remote from ordinary life. Cuts down on the stress.

I sure do like to read! You can't go wrong with a BOOK. Printed words on a page. Ah.

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 I can't quite get through the winter with this, but I think I can get into the early stages before I run out of sunflowers. Sooner or later I'll have some Lubbock funky alleys again. Some piles of trash and interesting junk and other stuff like that. Temps fairly mild today and the next few days but cloudy. No rain, of course. 

I completed a bit of simplification today, finally. The process turned out to me more complicated than I thought it would be, but it's done. Briefly, I cancelled one of my credit cards. This simplifies financial record keeping. I never carry a balance but I didn't like the website on this one. They made it very hard to see all the charges in a billing cycle, and that made it hard to check for unauthorized charges. Plus, they switched my billing preferences without my knowledge or approval. And their customer service was poor. Reason enough to drop it.