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A collection of 515 issues

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,

Free Association

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Scrooge:: Charles Dickens, improbable coincidences. 2. Ribbon:: cat toy, Quantum the grey tabby rolling around on her back batting at the ribbon, mouth open and tail stump twitching. 3. Physical:: education, playing hockey in the snow on a frozen field in gym skirts.

Road Trip Thanksgiving

We went to Hampton Virginia for Thanksgiving, and it was a great road trip. Wonderful hospitality, lovely people, excellent food. Lessons learned: * Beef jerky is an acceptable food substance. * It is 890 miles from home to Hampton VA. * Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia combined have less police out on

Free Association

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Concert:: Mannheim Steamroller, with Dennis and Amy. 2. Sydney:: Opera House, Finding Nemo. 3. Shower:: Bathroom. 4. Patterns:: Knitting, green Aran wool, 42 row pattern and 13 row patterns both together, "It'll be ready for our anniversary!" and eight

Free Association

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Plan B:: Three Mile Island, nuclear meltdown. 2. Seattle:: Microsoft, home of the General Protection Fault and the Fatal Exception. 1. The lady wore:: red. 2. Upsetting:: flat cats on the road to work. 3. Tampon:: mouse. 4. Celebrity:: deathmatch. 5. Baja:: Suburu

Miscellany

Great post on Ian's Messy Desk, a list of You know you're living in 2003 when... One of my best friends sent me a York Peppermint Patty through company internal mail yesterday, hand delivered by the mail guy. I'd never had one before and

Where I'm from

Found an interesting writing assignment on Fragments from Floyd, based on the poem "Where I'm From" by George Ella Lyons. Where I'm from I am from tea cups, from Twinings and tannin. I am from the haunted bathroom, (cold and primrose yellow, feeling dead

Three things

Meme from bardling, swiped from Plaid Dragon's blog. "Look around you right now and name 3 things you can see in the room you're in that make you smile/happy, even if it is just the tiniest little bit!" 1. Two pictures of my

Free association

Playing Unconscious Mutterings game of free association again. 1. Leapfrog:: playtime in Broke Hall Primary, stinging nettles. 2. Co-workers:: lawn mower, cookies, food days, friends. 3. Mustang:: Michelle from Alpha, watching Nicky Gumbel in the Engleman's living room. 4. Wafer:: communion at Evanston Vineyard IL, eighth wedding anniversary.

Free Association

Found Unconscious Mutterings game of free association on Hubby's blog. Free association is described as a "psychoanalytic procedure in which a person is encouraged to give free rein to his or her thoughts and feelings, verbalizing whatever comes into the mind without monitoring its content." Over

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