Recreational test-driving
I'm not a gear head, or a speed freak, but I like cars and I like driving. I like acceleration because I want to know that what I'm driving has enough oomph under the bonnet to get me out of a problem if necessary. I like
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A collection of 514 issues
Trailing the crowd
I finally caved and got a Facebook account. Found a few
people I know, a herd of people from church found me, looking for a few friends from school and university. A lot of the people I knew are only on Friends Reunited, I hadn't been there in
Snapshot - August 2008
It's been a while since I did one of these. September and March in 2007 were the last. Similar to phoeknits weekly thing but a lot less frequent:
Knitting
Eris is back in the lunchtime knitting slot, which is pretty much the only time I knit. I have
A Tale of Two Hats
My beloved husband wears a hat, a baseball cap that has seen better days. He loves that hat, and it gets comments because of the Linux penguin, Tux, on the front. I got it for him from ThinkGeek at least three years ago and I've been bugging him
Lucky 13
August 5th is our 13th wedding anniversary. I love you Hubby!
Seaglass
Glass that has been tumbled and smoothed in the sea washes up on beaches as sea glass, or beach glass. Got these on Etsy, but I replaced the jump ring on the cobalt piece with a silver bail from Rio Grande.
The glass is likely ten or more years old,
Living history
BBC News: Ancient tree 'one of UK's best'
An ancient Perthshire yew has made the top 10 in a list of the most important trees in the UK. The Fortingall Yew, which grows at a churchyard near Aberfeldy, could be up to 5,000 years old
Ladytron
Back in March, Hubby surprised me with tickets to see one of my favourite bands, Ladytron. They were at the Pageant on Monday night with Datarock. We arrived at the Halo Bar early and were rewarded with first access passes, which got us to the front of the line when
Someone stole my blog post
It's been an interesting week. As in the curse May you live in interesting times.
Some weasel in Russia had been scraping my blog feed since the start of May and republishing all my posts on their spam blog with Google AdSense ads. They were stealing content from
Making lightning
BBC News: Tripping the light fantastic.
It is near pitch-black in the viewing room where we are standing; a soft red glow exuding from a warning light above the door barely cuts through the darkness. A klaxon sounds, and, suddenly, a giant flash of lightning bolts through the air, accompanied