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"The Outback Diaries recounts the efforts Randy took for his mother Barb in the last year of her life. It started with a road trip from apartment H in Colorado Springs, to a house in the suburbs of San Antonio, and then to room 209 at Los Prados Verdes Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation. Randy and Barb encountered the unimaginable all along the way. There was the free range solar panel farm somewhere on Interstate 25. There was brunch with Thumper at a cantina in Dallas served up by a brown-eyed girl wearing blue contact lenses who smelled like rainbows. There was a rebellion brewing among the residents at the nursing home. There was a hideous dress. There were repeated references to the songs and movies of Randy's youth. Could Randy get Barb to Texas in time to meet her new great grandson? Could they avoid the rebellion before being conscripted right into the middle of it by the likes of the President of the Residents and Mr. OK? How many times would the word ""irregardlessly"" be used before being called out as simply poor grammar? The answers to those questions and more are in The Outback Diaries."

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Besides being the author of either the book you just read, or the one you're about to read, Randy Tharp serves as the self-proclaimed Blogger Laureate & Purveyor or Verbal Brilliance on Tharpster.Org. He posts there on a regular basis about a variety of topics based on whatever happens to be going through his mind at the time. When he's not writing, Randy manages the day to day happenings in a cubicle deep within the financial services industry where he's mastered the art of looking busy while visiting the internet to obtain complicated formulas for the spreadsheets and databases he uses to keep up appearances. At home, Randy and his wife of 30-something years are parents to two grown kids and grandparents to one non-grown kid (as of this writing). In his free time, he reads and hits the gym to pick things up and put them down. He also takes his Silver Labrador (she's a Magnificent Beast) on frequent walks. Neighbors wave frequently.

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