Gah. It’s been a bad two years, pandemic aside. Here is a summary of what happened. I have wanted to write up blog posts to cover all of these things, but honestly it’s been too much. I’d start to write and just get overwhelmed by everything. It...
This is going to be short, because I just can’t write. Within one week, my sister lost two of her three children. My nephew died on Monday. My niece died on Wednesday. Mom and I flew out to be with my sister on Wednesday. Not going into...
Where the intrepid explorer manages to get rides to and from work with friends and eventually discovers what happened to her car. The car was at the shop for three days, mostly because they didn’t have time in the schedule to work on the car. I finally...
Well not so much. More like a scary outting in which my car dies on the Interstate and then miraculously works long enough to get off of an exit (road where I live) and park the car in a pharmacy parking lot. The car has been running...
Before you give thanks on Thanksgiving, you first shop for food and clean. The cleaning part is what always gets me. I’m not messy, but I tend to leave things incompletely unpacked for as long as possible. You get to where things you need are out but...
Best thing about WordPress is that site layout can be changed easily. Worst thing about WordPress is that site layout can be changed easily. You can lose hours getting sucked into looking at themes, tweaking newly installed themes, and then making new graphics for header images. I...
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Airships! Are we in Rose's alternate universe? RT @TelegraphNews Airships: a second age http://bit.ly/9yX1Fm # Off to Bull Spec launch party! # Reading manuscripts with Editor hat on. Strange to do that with fiction instead of tech writing. # RT @rww Library of Congress Gets a Mobile...
Rode Isis for the first time in 3 weeks. Bareback. She spooked and teleported. I fell off. Got back on. Laughed a lot. # RT @dancinghorse: CONTEST http://www.bookviewcafe.com Friday 7/30 Answer question in today's chapter of Fools Paradise-free copy to 30th responder! # RT @archaeologynews: (Egyptology) Distance...
Stella, the 21 year old cat, is playing Guild Wars with me. She plays with the characters on screen as they move around. # Heat index is 111F (~44C). Not going out. # Very hot today with a heat index of 108F (~42C). Spa day for the...
I gave away my size 14s. Finally going to go buy "real" clothes in a size 6. Yay! (happy dance) # Oh look. More rain. # Pretty. Precious. Want. // Dell M11xR2 Review: The World's Smallest Gaming Laptop Goes i7 http://bit.ly/aOepRP # Funny how when you take...
How to Run Mac OS X in VirtualBox on Windows.. http://digg.com/d31WPz3 # Off to the barn to play with the horses. Joy! And then — more cleaning! Joy. (bleh) # The best thing about cleaning is when you've finished. Otherwise, it sucks. # Miffed kitty coming home...
Leaving work and going to the barn. Yay barn! # Check this out to WIN A FREE APPLE iPAD / CARBON FREE http://foodforthought.greenearthappeal.org/winanappleipad/ @greenearthapp # Excavations at the Mamertine Prison Find Evidence of Pre-Chr.. http://digg.com/d31VcEK # Conjure One has a new single out! #conjureone # Lovely. Bomb...
I originally started this blog to write about the issues I’ve been having with my various medically challenged animals. Initially it was Basette with diabetes and Isis with insulin resistance. Over the years, I’ve written about every animal I’ve had because they have all had some kind...
Compared my #N900 to the iPhone 4G some of the fanbois here have. I like my N900 better. 🙂 # #FF @amethystdragon @spicycauldron @dancinghorse @vsmirk @djuggler # oOoO Sequel to The Dark Crystal! http://powerofthedarkcrystal.blogspot.com/ # One of the guys just got his iPhone and returned to work...
The cut on my finger has completely healed over on the large entrance wound and the smaller exit wound. My finger is still a little swollen and I don’t quite have full range of motion back. However, the finger flexes enough to hold reins, so that’s all...
off to ride! Barn trail ride today. Should be fun. I'll either ride Isis bareback or Kasane on her first outting. 🙂 # Looking for a phone that can do everything and smoke the iPhone? Check out the Nokia #N900 http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n900-2917.php # Bring on 7.2M – 21Mb...
