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Thursday, August 10, 2006

Still Away...

I'm at Stagecoach Coffee, in hyper-well-tended Cooperstown, New York. Ms. and Mr. UD pride themselves on the fact that they've been here dozens of times and never entered the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Still, they like to look at everyone on the street duded up in their team's uniform. It's an intriguing contrast with the other town they always visit upstate: Woodstock.

We've gotten a string of spectacular August days and nights at our house in the hills.

I'm keeping track of comments to various UD posts whenever I get a few moments alone with a hotspot, as here at Stagecoach. But I don't have time to think and respond, or to write much of a post either -- that'll have to wait until our return to DC on Monday.