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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Press 87 to accidentally disconnect yourself

Every thirty seconds I get another "All agents are still busy. Please remain on the line. Your call is very important to us." I timed it. It's not like there's a lot else I could do with the phone glued to my ear, trying

Inbox plaque

Someone forwarded me an email today, one of those "If you send this to 10 more people, other than the 5 that you already have to send to, something major that you've been wanting will happen. However, if you don't send this to 5 people

Cat alarm

Thank you for purchasing a Feline alarm unit, the natural way to wake up. You will enjoy years of service from your unit. Please note that feline alarms are designed to be used in the home, they are not recommended for use on trains, buses or airplanes. Contents: One (1)

Caffeine dreams

I realise that having a domain name caffeinatedbliss.com is incompatible with saying I've given up caffeine, but there you go, I have. For Lent initially, but surprise, surprise, I'm suddenly sleeping a whole lot better, so the caffeine won't be coming back. (Caffeine

Speech in full

The text of the Lieutenant- Colonel Tim Collins speech is also at the Times Online site. Seems like a great number of people are searching for it and landing here. So here it is, as much as I can piece it together from the Times and the Telegraph. Lieutenant Colonel

War thoughts

A friend in church was wearing a pin with US and UK flags on. It felt very reassuring; we're on the same side, in Jane's words, "sticking together." Dying together too. I'm finding it really hard to pull together any cohesive thought

Geocaching

Got a Magellan Meridian GPS on and found our first geocache since October, when Jess visited with her GPS. We found a the first part of a three part multi-cache in Creve Coeur Park, a small plastic container that held co-ordinates for the second part. We ended up

Beginnings

I heard Bush's speech last night in the car with Larry and Sarah, on the way to the emergency animal clinic with their new cat, Bentley (who will be fine after the antibiotics). We rode in silence as he spoke: My fellow citizens, at this hour American and

Moving

There used to be a white house on Olive not far west of I-270. It's not there anymore. Now it's in Kirkwood, several miles south and west of where it was built. The entire house was picked up off the foundations and put on wheeled

MP3.com

I've been plundering MP3.com again for coding music. If you like electronica or trance, these are the best I've found: * The Cynic Project * Bassic * Kryptonic * 7.1 * Kooz * Digital Cardboard * Skuz Plunder, plunder... That's a good word, plunder.

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