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The past few days I\u2019ve had a bad cold, and this morning our internet service wasn\u2019t working at home, and that made for a quiet day today, blogging-wise. Thinking about that brought the song \u201cTransmission Ends\u201d to my mind, which I haven\u2019t heard since many years ago when I owned the Chris de Burgh album Man on the Line<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 <\/em>on vinyl! $\"\"$ <\/em> <\/p>\n

If you listen to the very end, you\u2019ll probably get why the song came to mind.<\/p>\n

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