I’m sitting and waiting for the chimney guys. Again. The chimney odyssey has been going on since July 2001. I’m quite serious. And today, finally! the whole danged thing (okay, except the stone inside, I guess) is supposed to be…
Back to boring brown
Okay, so I’m not a redhead anymore. I colored my hair today and used a different color that seemed closer to the color of my roots—a really dark brown. Sam is home and hasn’t mentioned it at all, so I…
Okay, Okay…
take free Enneagram test But the result for 5 was 18, and the result for 1 was 17, so they’re awfully close. “Ones are idealistic and strive for perfection. Morals and ethics drive them. They live with an overbearing internal…
I’m a Spoiled Gamer
I had fun today. We had the second session of a really small D&D game—just me, sambear and B. B was in our main D&D game but dropped out because 1) she has this life thing going on, 2) her…
Conversational Snippet of the Day…
“Just leave it, it’s going to be too hot to pick up.” “What?” “There’s a wok in the yard.” Current Music: Alana Davis
VERY Spoiled Cat
If anyone had any doubts that we are owned by one of the world’s most spoiled cats, Shelley has taken to leading sambear to the bathroom to turn on the water in the tub so that she can drink it…
Memorial Day Memories
I’m tired. Not so much physically tired, because I’ve had a nice long nap snuggled up with sambear since the 31 folks cleared out of the house (okay, 30, we kept a spare kid for the night). sambear described most…
Hardware Woes
More geeking today. One of our PCs just died yesterday. And, of course, it’s one of the newer, nicer ones (only 4 years old). It was fine Monday night, but when Sam got up the next morning and turned it…
A Physicist Considers the Cosmos, Through the Prism of 9/11
Anybody else read this? http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/21/science/physical/21ESSA.html?tntemail1 I found it interesting.
Who tells YOU what to read?
I just read (okay, glanced at then went off in a huff) a newspaper article offering to help the poor, benighted souls who just don’t know what to read without Oprah’s book club. Now tell me, honestly—have you ever needed…