jrittenhouse

The glories of fountain pens:

jrittenhouse Oct 10, 2015 00:54

Working on the monthly budget and trying to get it to do what I want. Painful. And it's given me a crick in the neck; going to relax a couple on minutes and then rustle up some dinner for myself.

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Yay, rah, Bunyips! Yip yippee!

jrittenhouse Sep 07, 2015 18:34

Being interested in cryptozoology ever since I first pulled Heuvelmans' ON THE TRACK OF UNKNOWN ANIMALS as a small boy from my mom's library, certain critters such as the Australian Bunyip have particularly caught my attention...and just ran into this interesting aticle on them:

bunyips, australia, cryptozoology

Back!

jrittenhouse Aug 28, 2015 12:46

Back again, this time for good; had lots of work to do since retiring last January and not a ton of free time.

journaling

And the polar vortex creeps down on you and devours your thermometer:

jrittenhouse Jan 05, 2014 11:59

Another fine product of...
Well, first things first…since I’ve been away for a while, I need to bring y’all back up to speed as to what’s going on here (or what *has* been going on here) but I figured I’d mix that in with more current stuff on my pointy head; simpler than trying to do one completely and then the other. I’ll tag the old news ( Read more... )

health_care, cll, hospital, doctors_nurses, weather, fears, pain-ow, personal, illness, sad, chicago, glasses, lisle, too-darn-much-to-do, noteworthy, disease, throwback, drugs, surgery, health

And the world rejoices at the news:

jrittenhouse Dec 21, 2013 11:16

Another fine product of...

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algeria

Breaker Breaker:

jrittenhouse Dec 21, 2013 11:14

Another fine product of...
Journal coming back from the dead. No ghost involved. Will haunt you anyway.

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algeria

Not dead yet:

jrittenhouse Oct 09, 2013 03:47

Though I felt like crap much of the evening, with a temp of just under 100F; not sure if I have a new set of infection in my body, but will have to wait and see tomorrow, etc.

Scaring myself:

jrittenhouse Jun 03, 2013 01:59

Another fine product of...
Over the last ten days or so, I’ve been feeling moderately rocky - and over this weekend, *very* rocky. I’m really not sure what’s going on, but it’s gotten bad enough that I’m going in to see my GP doctor to see if she has a clue.

Early on stuff - a really bad heartburn that I chalked up to having drunk way too many cups ( Read more... )

disease, doctors_nurses, medications, drugs, pain-ow, cll, noteworthy

It’s that time again:

jrittenhouse May 30, 2013 23:48

Another fine product of...
Father’s Day is coming, and the assembled family types want my wish list, so here it is:

I desperately need a new wallet and belt; both have been beat to pudding. Something roughly similar would work; this wallet on Amazon looks decent, and the belt (new) has to be shorter than this one- as I’ve lost weight, I now have ( Read more... )

holidays, home, wishlist, networking, radio, techie-drool, personal, toys

woooofshriekarfarfshriek:

jrittenhouse May 06, 2013 15:13

The village of Lisle is out in front of our house doing some sort of road conditioning, and the dogs are going nuts over the people and noise, with lots of screaming and ranting. I work in the basement in my office, but Jack, my daughter's miniature poodle. has the most piercing and endless screams, yelps and barks, never failing to set my teeth ( Read more... )