Date-iversary
Today is the tenth anniversary of my first date with Hubby. He sent me ten red roses. I love him!
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Miscellany
Got sick, got better, got sick again, am still sick. Snow on ground, freezing cold office, ice in the air, no sunlight for days on end, temperature below freezing most of the week. Right now 110F/43C heat and wet-blanket humidity of summer sound wonderful.
Pictures of London as it
Blogger idol week one: "The 80s"
The big event in the 1980s for me was moving from the new house to That House.
The 1980s was when we moved from Stowemarket, a small village in Suffolk, England, to Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk. We bought That House in 1981. It seemed like a decent house
Circle Journey
Circle Journey is an interesting idea: you send a small notebook back and forth between two people like an ongoing letter. I mailed one to my sister today, should arrive in about a week.
Blogdom Kerfuffle
The "Blogdom of God" kerfuffle has been mentioned on several blogs of late (Bene Diction, Irene Q, Can You Hear Me Now and others). I mention it partly as an excuse to use the word "kerfuffle" in a semi-serious context. The Blogdom is an aggregator for
Happy New Year!
Not a lot else to say really. It's raining, I want to overhaul my Desk Drawer section, especially since the demise of MP3.com. Any suggestions?
Free Association
Unconscious Mutterings game of free association.
1. Exchange:: currency, UK pounds to US dollars, £1 equals about $1.65.
2. Parental Advisory:: Guns N Roses as the voicemail "on hold" music.
3. Blowout:: tyre, Firestone, Ford Exploder.
4. Spider:: brown
recluse spider, rumours of houses infested with them.
Free Association
Unconscious Mutterings game of free association.
1. Warning:: bottle of sleeping pills, label says "Warning, may cause drowsiness."
1. Aspirations:: to go, New Zealand. To do, try to draw, finish Hubby's sweater.
2. Starvation:: Ethiopia.
3. Lid:: baseball cap.
4. Sketch:: Art class, compulsory fifteen pencil
Free association
Unconscious Mutterings game of free association.
1. Blizzard:: "It's the wrong kind of snow, Gromit!" trains out of service for a 4 inch "blizzard"in England.
2. J:: Java, JDK 1.4.2, IntelliJ IDEA, Chronicle, Extreme Programming, coffee cup.
3. Control:: panel, options
Blogrolls and rankings, mountains and molehills
Bene Diction posted about blog ranking systems yesterday, and the post got me thinking.
The blogroll on this page is for me to use. When I get home and check on blogs, I want to go to one page, and Ctrl-click on all the blogs at once (tabbed browsing plug,