Actual content of my text message to a few of my friends this afternoon. It was my day to volunteer at Hawk Mountain, so after Kevin and I finished our appointment this morning to apply for our passports, I zipped off to the sanctuary ( Read more... )

Today I took castleraid to climb rocks at my beloved mountain. It was a very pleasant outing, and we had a great time, but the thing I feel the need to share with all of you is this ( Read more... )

I think I have FINALLY located and edited all of the pictures from British Invasion III. I think. Not sure.

To refresh your memory, picspam part one is here. This is picspam part two. It's much bigger. These are all from the point where siddyq and amarctis_q2 had joined the festivities, so those two took a lot of these -- probably more than I did myself, in ( Read more... )

This is a test; I've installed Semagic on the home computer, because it wasn't working at the office -- the office comp was missing some required component and I was hesitant to download it, but it was already on Squishy here so I'm going to see if I can do the simultaneous posting thing. Because if I can that will rock ( Read more... )

I've reached the conclusion that I don't actually read books so much as I devour them. If a nibble convinces me that they're tasty, my brain opens up and swallows them whole, and they become a part of me forever. This is why I'm sometimes hard to disturb when I'm reading (witness the marathons of Harry Potter ( Read more... )

So I got home from work yesterday and promptly dragged Kevin off to Hawk Mountain for a few hours of hiking. It was rather exhilirating. We braved the Escarpment Trail, which involves quite a lot of actual hand-and-foot scrambling over rock formations. Done incorrectly, you probably could fall to a very messy death. But I'm surprisingly ( Read more... )