After school a Friday or two ago, Angus announced he wanted to go see some sea lions - I'd mentioned I'd seen they were taking over the Fish Harbor dock in front of the Army Corp of Engineers trailers. I figured it would be a way to work in a few more waymarks as well.


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I just found out that someone who works in my office has been in Iraq for the last couple of months. I was aware she had joined the Air Force Reserves as a medic awhile ago, and had been called up when the war first started; however, she went to Texas and never left the country. This time, apparently, her mother and grandmother don't even know ( Read more... )

Another office sympathy card this morning, for a co-worker in another office - previous thoughts on those...IT has been saying for a couple of months now that they are testing a new spam blocker; I hope they get it in place soon, because I'm getting a little weary of deleting 20 ads for "Re: VzlAGRA" and worse every morning (and whatever "middle ( Read more... )

Sad news today when VT got back from the docks. She had noticed the lady who moves the chute from the weigh basket to fill the bins up with fish, had been replaced by someone else ( Read more... )

As I was finishing the last entry, I suddenly started hearing jet engines. My office is right next to the Los Alamitos National Guard Air Base; a month or two ago we saw Shrub's plane parked over there all afternoon (if you remember I posted a picture about it). This sounded like multiple planes taking off and the noise just kept on going. I ( Read more... )