Back in history, foreign correspondents used to send their stories by telegraph.

They had a little thing they used to do. To assure their editors there wasn't any problems on their end, they would end by typing and sending -30-.

When i used to write for The Ubyssey, I used to end what i wrote with -30- .My editors were baffled until I eplained.

So this, barring the unforseen, is my last post on my The Vile Rag blog.  Today is Sept 22, 2018.If something comes up, I'll refile it at the very end again. Yes, I do hope to write a post on The Ubyssey Today, but I have yet to hear from them ,for permission to come and see them, as I write. If that happens--{It hasn’t as of Oct 15] I’ve already created a blog post that I can update and finish later if needs be.

One last thing. I'm doubful that I will ever get a chance to write  a "dead tree" book. So, if that's true, I'll never get to inscribe a book of mine that someone has bought.

Lindsey Lewis is a local novelist, who wrote a book called "From Darkness To Light"

In a used copy of this book, she had incscribed it to a lady like this:

(Lady's name book was inscribed for)

You Are Lovely

May You Live Happily Ever After

Lindsey.

Sweet. Maybe it wouldn't have worled for a hardboiled "newsman” like me, bur something similar would have done the trick.

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