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Blogging for a whole year and then some

My blog anniversary passed unnoticed in January. The site hitting 25,000 page views passed unnoticed, as did the 15,000 visitor mark. So heck with it, I'll do it today because it's an unremarkable Friday in May. I started this on January 10th 2002. I

Random train of thought

The train now standing at platform three is the nine forty three to London, fast service, stopping at Woking, Clapham Junction, and London Waterloo. If your travel plans today did not include London, this would be a good time to get off. There have been storms in St Louis, but

Garden update

The Alyssum plants died, and the cat ate my basil. Happily I have some reserve Alyssum plants, and some purple and white snapdragons, which will form flower bed #2, leaving flower bed #1 with just pink Alyssum and blue Forget-Me-Not seeds. Some of the seeds are coming up, the chives,

Weeds 0, Home 3

I'm taking back my garden. Three massive dandelions just got evicted, and I have an embryonic flower bed with some little plants and two different types of seed in. The rest of the seeds are in pots inside, they are the reserves in case the outside lot don&

Let's Motor

(US Translation: bonnet = hood, boot = trunk, exhaust = tailpipe) We've been idly looking for the Mini dealer for about a year now, ever since we saw the web site. On Saturday we got there and test drove a Mini Cooper S. First, the dull technical stuff: 1.6 litre

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

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

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 walking a

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