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The other day I was wandering through the halls and corridors at Spacelocker, and I decided to duck into the Widget Gallery. You can get there yourself when you click on Your Profile on the top shelf of Your Locker and go to My Locker Page.
From there, you get to the Widget Gallery by scrolling down to My Locker Wall and clicking on Get Widgets.
Well what did I find there but the cool Kitty Clock? This widget is so cool that even Chilli Palmer can't take his eyes off it. I had no choice. I had to have it. I clicked on the Kitty Clock icon, and then I clicked on Get Widget. Kitty Clock was mine!
Kitty Clock has a history that goes way, way back with me.
When we were young, our parents used to take my brother Bill and me to our cottage for summer vacation. I was barely a teenager, and Bill was almost a teen. On the radio, The Who sang, "Me and my brother were talking to each other about what makes a man a man," and life was better than we knew.
We drove north. "Hey Dad, are we there yet?" every ten minutes or so. Sometimes, our parents got so fed up that they'd head out alone, and leave us with Tina Egnatoff, an exceptionalhousekeeper from Blaine Lake, who could be trusted. Trusted to bake the best pies my brother and I had ever tasted. Nothing fancy like meringues or anything, but apple, cherry, rhubarb, blueberry-the best.
One weekend when our parents knuckled under and agreed to take us along to the cottage, we gained insight. We stopped along the way at a fork-in-the-road truck stop caf at Blaine Lake, which was about half way to the cottage. Yogi Berra, bon vivant and iconic New York Yankees catcher once said, "When you get to a fork in the road, take it" so we did. But not before a cup of coffee and a slice of pie.
As we walked into the caf, my eyes were drawn to the clock on the wall-the ever-popular black bakelite Kitty Clock. I've always remembered that clock, and now I have one of my own, wagging lasciviously on my Locker Page. My life is good. I had blueberry pie. You too can have the Kitty Clock.
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