I still have the one offer on the house. The house is still being shown, which is good. It’s been two weeks since the last showing… and today I get a notice for two showings this afternoon at 4:00 and at 5:30. Funny how that works.
Some interesting definitions from The Jargon Lexicon: bletcherous: /blech’@�r@s/, adj. Disgusting in design or function; esthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. “This keyboard is bletcherous!†(Perhaps the keys don’t work very well, or are misplaced.) See losing, cretinous, bagbiting, bogus, and random. The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing…
One of my favourite quotes is from Frank Herbert’s Dune: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye…
Shortly before I left work, my neck started hurting and my back felt stiff. I woke up at approximately 2:00 with a very stiff neck. I could not turn my head to the right without catching my breath. It felt rather like someone was poking a three inch, 18 gauge needle into my vertebrae on…
Breezy has had a strange lameness that has manifested as either back left or front right. It looks like her back strides aren’t the same length. She’s had several weeks off and it hasn’t seemed to help. The vet came out yesterday to do a lameness evaluation for Breezy. The vet used a lameness locator…
It is about 2:00 AM. I just heard the first gun shot in my otherwise quiet neighborhood. This is very surreal. The last time I lived in an area where there were gun shots, they were from hunters tracking dear or other game. The time before that was when I lived in Durham. I rented…
A previously unrecorded Roman piece that is the largest known silver Roman coin will be up for auction at the Ira and Larry Goldberg Coins and Collectibles Pre-Long Beach Sale slated for May 24-27. The apparen tly unique coin of Valentinian I (364-375 C.E.) is dated 369 C.E. from the Mint of Antioch. read more…