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First, a ran­dom thought:
“For money you can have every­thing it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; med­i­cine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowl­edge but not intel­li­gence; glit­ter, but not com­fort; fun, but not plea­sure; ( Read more... )

Why do we have a reverse-911 system, if the county won’t use it to tell us things like, “Hey, we had a water main break and you need to boil your water before using it.”

We’ve had so many water main breaks in the last year that I’m glad we don’t drink tap water, anyway (even with boiling, it tastes nasty to me). We do cook with it, though.

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Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. Please leave any comments there.

Why do we have a reverse-911 system, if the county won’t use it to tell us things like, “Hey, we had a water main break and you need to boil your water before using it.”

We’ve had so many water main breaks in the last year that I’m glad we don’t drink tap water, anyway (even ( Read more... )

I consider Sunday the first day of the week rather than the last.

It was a week full of appointments for the girl and getting paperwork shuffled to various bureaucracies. Sam and I had lovely dates Wednesday and tonight, although we were so exhausted Wednesday that we turned in much earlier than usual.

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Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. Please leave any comments there.

I consider Sunday the first day of the week, rather than the last.

It was a week full of appointments for the girl, and getting paperwork shuffled to various bureaucracies. Sam and I had lovely dates Wednesday and tonight, although both of us were so exhausted Wednesday that ( Read more... )

I just found out that DeVry didn’t “package” my financial aid for this semester. Huh? I registered the day registration opened, or nearly so, as I recall. I wasn’t scheduled to graduate. I did everything I’m supposed to do, in fact. Somebody there just dropped the ball.

Why isn’t that sort of thing automated so that doesn’t happen? It isn’t as if ( Read more... )

Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. Please leave any comments there.

I just found out that DeVry didn’t “package” my financial aid for this semester. Huh? I registered the day registration opened, or nearly so, as I recall. I wasn’t scheduled to graduate. I did everything I’m supposed to do, in fact. Somebody there just dropped the ball.

Why ( Read more... )

What is it that drives some people to constantly seek arguments? It doesn’t matter what you say, they have to pick at it. I truly think, on one mailing list, that I could just post, “Oh, I totally agree with you” and a few people there would still find a reason to bitch.

I have to wonder what they’re like in real life. Scratch that, I know what ( Read more... )

What is it that drives some people to constantly seek arguments? It doesn’t matter what you say, they have to pick at it. I truly think, on one mailing list, that I could just post, “Oh, I totally agree with you” and a few people there would still find a reason to bitch.

I have to wonder what they’re like in real life. Scratch that, I know what ( Read more... )

(I’m hearing Gary Oldman in The Fifth Element when I read the subject there. Yes, I probably could have found a sound clip and included it, but I’m counting on your imaginations and memories here.)

Well, I finally got around to reading the rest of Fledgling, the Liaden Universe novel published by serially by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller in 2007 ( Read more... )