Carrie is giving the dogs a haircut, I have my coffee, we are obsessed with Allison Krauss and Robert Plant, and it is 74 degrees.  We have decided to forever take the first week that everyone we know goes back to school and go on vacation.  There is sweet justice in the misery/pleasure ratio listening to my teacher-filled family lament the end of ( Read more... )

A great writer on my Flist talked about the evolution of internet connection from LJ to The Face and Twitter.  True enough, in the last six years, things have definitely calmed down and shorted out in the LJ world a bit as other people leave for the "How many birthday parties has your kid had lately?" neverland of knowing what everyone is doing ( Read more... )

It's our annual trip to the lake for a week in the dog days of summer so our dogs can squirrel hunt and swim in the pool while getting fed oodles of human food since we're "on vacation."  It's fabulous.  I've never actually looked forward to it more than this year, which is just silly because I work from home and shouldn't concern myself with ( Read more... )