Cyn is a professional geek, avid reader, fledgling coder, enthusiastic gamer (TTRPGs), occasional singer, and devoted needleworker. She's also Rick's wife, Katie's Mom, and Esther & Oliver's Mémé.
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TotD: Suggested Rules for Democratic Discourse

Sidney Hook, suggested rules for democratic discourse, from “The Ethics of Controversy,” Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy and Freedom: The Essential Essays: Nothing and no one is immune from criticism. Everyone involved in a controversy has an intellectual responsibility to…

Sleepy!

I didn’t sleep very well last night, although I managed to stay up all day yesterday (unusual lately). Unfortunately, I ended up sleeping most of the day, today, and I’m still sleepy! So I hope I can sleep well again,…

ThinkExist.com?

Has anyone ever registered successfully at ThinkExist? I’ve tried many times, with different addresses, and never received even one confirmation message. I’ve also tried using their contact form many times, with no response. I finally tried contacting them via their…

Glad I Stopped Reading!

Love Bites gives a synopsis of the first three all four Twilight books. Edit: Katie informed me that the above actually mentions events in book four, which caused me to accidentally give her a spoiler. Whoops! It’s a really, really…

Drama Circuits Still Overloaded

My real-life drama tolerance circuits were totally burned out with marriage v.3. I’m cool with that. I was able to handle much more of it in fiction, though I’m not big on whiney characters. I guess the Stephanie Meyer backlash…

Awwww! Puppy Lullaby

Edit: Embedding is now disabled for the video. Foo. But you can watch it on You Tube! That’s one of the sweetest things I’ve ever seen.

An Engineer’s Guide to Cats

An Engineer’s Guide to Cats Thanks to d2leddy for the link 🙂

SBQ: What do you do with oorts?

The current Stitching Blogger’s Question is: What do you do to your thread clippings? Do you just scrap them or do you use them in something else? I throw them away, as I don’t know what else I would do…

Shouldn’t Be This Tired

The girl had an appointment at the doctor’s office today, then we had to go to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to have an EKG and lab work done–just part of the normal monitoring for some of her meds. And that’s…

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