Grey
First ice on the car on Saturday morning. Today has been grey and rainy all day. Anyone would think it was autumn or something.
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Personal
A collection of 514 issues
Friday Five
The Friday Five, for once. This one's interesting.
1. Were you raised in a particular religious faith?
Big sister and I were shuttled to and from church until I decided I was old enough to object to church and stay home, and that wasn't met with
Hands off my stuff!
It really ticks me off when someone swipes something from one of my sites and publishes it on their site without even asking, or giving credit. I don't care if you say you're Christians, I don't care where you're from, get MY
Pet therapy
Spent a couple of hours this weekend talking to a friend who is doing a college project about clinical depression and pet therapy. It seems such a beneficial thing that I'm surprised it hasn't been studied more. We have two cats, and they're a
Change of logo
If you're out geocaching in St Louis and spot this stamp in a cache log, you'll know I've been there:
I think it's an improvement on the rose. Now if I could just get it made into a wax seal.
Playing catch up
One of the reasons for keeping a blog is so that our friends in the UK can keep up with us. One of those friends flew back to England yesterday, and the past two weeks have been a great holiday and catch up session. And we do miss her already.
Hi, who are you?
Bizarre. I walked into my kitchen and said to the chap pouring a soda, "Hi, I'd introduce you to my friend, but I have no idea who you are." The men's group is on downstairs, Jess is experimenting with the three nozzle, two tap
Travel plans
Walking out of work for two weeks is a special feeling. Jess arrives tomorrow afternoon from London's Gatwick airport. I have yet to meet an airport I actually like, I think it's something in the design, the sinking feeling that your bag is heading for Bombay,
Random walk
Cats curled up in the same bed and snoozed together, Quantum licked the new kitten, all was happy and fuzzy for a while. Then she jumped on him again and started wrestling. Most undignified. Today was their first full day together. Photographic proof:
Why does FedEx feel the need to
Programmer's virtues
Laziness
The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue