sucked, by the way. Too many things to do, most of which didn't work the way they needed to.

Good things:

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  I have new tires. The car now drives much like the car we sold, which says much about the state it was in prior to all the work done on it this weekend.
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  There were about 16 orders that got shipped out yesterday; last night I packed 13 more. We are ( Read more... )

It could have been more productive: I could have made more runes, of which I've still got about 15 sets to do ( Read more... )

Corpse Stuffed Animals -  "...Twitch the Raccoon which comes with its own body bag, reports U.K newspaper Metro. Twitch also has an identity tag revealing it was "run over over by a milk [delivery truck] last Thursday." [...] A zipper on each side of the toy allows the owner to remove Twitch's internal organs and stuff them back in again. A truck- ( Read more... )

from a local posting on craigslist:

Male spiritual companion...for the soul of the man...here to listen to you... notice your spiritual longing...touch your deepest inner desire...and move you to where your passion is leading? Male spiritual bonding groups forming in 
2008.

I'm all for men's groups and men's spiritual spaces.

But this sounds more ( Read more... )

There are some things on my mind that I need to say ( Read more... )

I've now been at work since before 7, found out that the garage lied to me about being ready "first thing" this morning, set up a meeting for 8:30, and had a discussion with a coworker about his son getting engaged.

*sigh*

 http://www.worldprayers.org/index.html  - a large selection of various prayers and readings from various traditions.  Includes several options for random prayers - I've enjoyed it greatly this morning, and plan to bookmark it for future use.

An interesting side effect to Kevin moving out:

For the first time in....several years....there is only one garbage can at the street tonight, and it's not even all the way full.

using water based dye to color massage oil does not work.

Today we went to Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford museum. We've lived here 7 years, and had not yet been.

It was a good day, with lots of walking. And even though I slept really late, I'm getting sleepy already. Which is probably just as well, since
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