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Life sometimes seems like an endless chain of reboots. Or, if you want to join me in some alliteration: repairs, rebirths, renewals, replenishments, rejuvenations. But I’ll go with reboot because it’s so 21st century.

Such as last week when I went to my mother’s house to reboot her dishwasher. On a couple of occasions she has pressed the start button and it beeps and the lights flash but it doesn’t run. After one repairman said he could fix it and then declined to even try, a phone call to another repairman resulted in a simple fix: reboot the washer’s computer by cutting off the power at the breaker box and turning it back on. Voila!, that did the trick. Meanwhile, over at LeAnn’s mother’s house, her desktop computer started acting up and the solution was the same: reboot it by pulling the plug and restoring power.

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For Wilshire Baptist Church

What did you do with your leap day? I’m talking, of course, about February 29, which comes around once every four years and stretches our normal 365-day year to 366 days. The practice started in 45 BC to keep the Roman calendar synced with the seasons. Pretty smart, don’t you think? I do.

And yet it is incomplete. While the calendar said February 29, it also still said Thursday. I wonder why nobody ever thought to give that extra day a completely different name — something that would stand out and set it apart? Still have the other seven days of the week but have that extra day with a special name in there as well. Where is Hallmark when you need them?

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Are you ready for the solar eclipse on April 8? Do you know where you are going to watch? Do you have your protective glasses? Have you got your guest list and your party menu planned and . . . ?

Those are questions that came into view in late January when we took a quick trip to the Texas Hill Country. It turns out there are communities all along the “path of totality” that are marketing the heck out of the eclipse. They’re planning watch parties and events and letting it be known they are the place to be for the best eclipse-watching experience, and the best place to be before and after with their hotels, restaurants and shops. After hearing all the hype, I was almost convinced we needed to be in Waco or Kerrville or back on top of Enchanted Rock to see the total eclipse as it’s meant to be seen. As it turns out, however, all of Dallas-Fort Worth is within the path of totality. All we need to do is step outside our own house from 1:40 to 1:44 p.m. on April 8 and we can experience the entire event.

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