After almost a month straight of hacking and coughing it appears my immune system has finally gained the upper hand on this nasty bug. I got 'better' for a few days about a week or so ago, but then it came back nasty and bad. Ran a fever and everything, and felt like my face was going to explode with all the sinus pressure ( Read more... )

After almost three months, my computer has been fixed and is set up again. I say 'fixed' in a fairly loose sense of the word, as fully TWO of its EIGHT USB ports actually work. Luckily, the electronics graveyard in our storage room yielded a serial port keyboard and so, with no internet service and the local server still packed up, Canti is ( Read more... )

The night before last, we got called in on a rescue mission. At least a dozen chickens and a few guinea fowl had been abandoned at a farm. We went in after dark to catch the chickens while they were roosting ( Read more... )

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Two Wiccans and a Discordian were doing a ritual ( Read more... )

What follows is a superb example of British humour in A LETTER THAT WAS ( Read more... )

About five minutes ago I was, ahem, indesposed in the master bath when I noticed an odd sound, one of those vague "woom woom woom" noises that sound effects guys like to use for anything that hovers. Just as I was starting to wonder whether Mo had gone downstairs and turned on the bathroom fan the noise stopped, and the little girl in question came ( Read more... )

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"I'll also say that the perception that Discordians are a big joke is not correct at all.
It's complex...and I will tell you that most of them would be insulted by the insinuation that the religion is one huge joke."

Eris: 1 NOOB: 0

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