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 Of all the choice restaurants and cafes in the area for lunch, the likes of Dairy Queen, Whataburger, and others, we often choose to have lunch at the Quik Cafe.  Now, the Quik Cafe is no ordinary cafe, because here you can  not only have lunch at a real table, but can also buy all sorts of things that you don't need, but best of all, you can get your car fueled up with Exxon gasoline.  When we have guests in town, we take them to the Quik Cafe; well, maybe not for lunch but certainly for a coke or two.   The Quik Cafe's gasoline pumps are always in full use with cars and trucks filling up because the price is competitive with unbranded gasoline and is always 20 cents less than that of the other major brands in this small town. When we have lunch in the cafe section of the store, we always opt for the chicken tenders.  Often times, we can strike up a chat with some one of the more colorful characters who make Wimberley their home.  One time we ev...

 On the subject of errors and quality, lets look at books and the errors that are almost always present in them.  I have just finished a 210 page book on the history of an old road in Michigan and have put it through a pretty tough regimen of proofing, but I know that there are still some errors---but the problem is I don't know where to look.  So why do I know there are errors yet I don't know where to look?  Because one can not find every last error by inspection.  There are classroom exercises that demonstrate that a whole group of students, working independently, that fail to find every error.  Error free writing can only be accomplished by the writers ability to write error free text--in other words, error free writing has to be accomplished by the process of writing and not by the process of inspection. Oh, but you say, how do we do that, meaning, what is the process of writing? Avoiding errors in written material is important simply because any reade...