Uni and thieves

[Doug Amlin]

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I usually only think about uni once or twice a year.  This morning I was at
Wittenburg University visiting the campus with my daughter.  In the biology lab
we were looking at sea urchins and talking about just what uni really is.  I
suspect I line up with Jeff Bone on its edibility.

Kragen Sitaker wrote:

> Went out to dinner at a sushi place last night with Jamie and her old
> boyfriend Robert.  I ordered uni, expecting it to be utterly inedible
> from Jeff Bone's posts about it, but it turned out to be fairly
> innocent stuff.
>
> There was a street musician with a flute outside the restaurant.  We
> stood and listened to him for a while.  Jamie said his music was
> haunting; I thought it was merely pretty.  I left him some money.
>
> We went to Twice Sold Tales, Jamie's bookstore.  I was standing and
> chatting with Jamie's friend Art about TRS-80 schematics when the theft
> alarm went off.  Jamie, I, and her employee Nathan chased the book
> thief for a couple of blocks; I gave up the chase when he ducked into a
> dark parking lot.  He'd dropped a book; I hope he'd only taken one.
>
> It's fortunate I didn't catch him; I've never come quite as close to
> smashing someone's skull as I did last night.
>
> A bit more excitement than I expected to get out of a bookstore visit.
>
> "I don't think he'll come back," opined Jamie upon our return.
>
> Chatted with Marilyn on the phone for about 45 minutes this morning.
> Sounds like things are going well for her.  Sounds like our
> relationship was really good for her, all told.  (It was good for me
> too.)
>
> --
> <kragen@pobox.com>       Kragen Sitaker     <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/>
> Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves
> possess.
>                 -- Gandalf the Grey [J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings"]

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