After yesterday's links to coronavirus mask-signs and Chicken Coop Creativity blowouts, I found a couple of other fun links at the same site. One detailed a sweet story about a kitten and his stuffed dragon BFF going to the vet, and the other was the succinctly-described What's Wrong With My Cat?. Oh, lord-some of those pictures and gifs ( Read more... )

Another weekend got away from me, with too little done. Our son had friends over both days for various school projects (only one of which we were at all expecting), so there was mayhem. That tends to frazzle me a little.

I'm trying to keep up the mileage for May is Bike Month. Friday was windy, but better than being in the garage? Sunday wasn't ( Read more... )

I didn't mean to disappear for two weeks, and I'm still getting caught up on my f-list. A little over a week behind right now, so getting closer ( Read more... )

My bicycle is in the shop, owing to a minor accident-well, minor for me, less for the bike. It started when my foot slipped out of the pedal while drinking water, and things got kind of brakeless. I tried to stay on the bike path, but veered off the edge and crashed. Not terribly hard, NOT over the side of the hill, and not as fast as it could have ( Read more... )

The final installment of the three-positive-things a day meme ( Read more... )

Day 4 of the positive things meme!

1) The city/county where I do recreational bicycling on workdays has fenced off one of their open wild areas and is employing what I have previously termed... Goatscaping. \o?

2) This photoseries of the happiest animals of all time and (not for the snake-phobic) various sartorially spiffed-up snakes (my ( Read more... )

This is one of the reasons I don't post every day-- some days I've got nothing, let alone the three positive things due today. But let me give it a try:

1) These kids' test answers, which are wrong but hilarious. Some of the teachers' notes are, too. :D

2) This video and this photo series of interspecies animal friendships. Except, needs more ( Read more... )

Ah... I can officially use my Halloween icon, now!

So, things at work have been busy with the new assignment. SO much more fun than writing and rewriting specs on the Project O' Evil (made more evil by other people wanting me to write the docs, but repeatedly changing their minds as to what should be in them).

Wincon is next week, and I haven't ( Read more... )

For those of you who were wondering what happened with the last LJ Idol round, the poll was discarded due to a surge in sockpuppet accounts in the voting (more details at the comm). I'm hugely relieved, regardless of the reason, because I was really, really unhappy about that last "twist" in the game and it was casting a pall over everything ( Read more... )

LJ Idol stuff: my story for the week is here. This week's voting is set up so that only one person from a pair can move onto the next round, meaning either I or my partner will go to the Top Four, but not both of us. Have I said how much I hate this situation? Ugh.

To cheer us all up: 32 Greatest Unscripted Movie Scenes. Includes an iconic moment ( Read more... )