It's not easy posting photos since I have to use my phone to upload them, but I prefer typing up my entry with the keyboard I have for my tablet. And the photos from my camera - well, I have to put its memory card into my phone (which means turning off my phone & removing the current card) yada yada. So not sure when I'll post photos again, but I ( Read more... )

Decided to upload a few photos from the trip so far. Today we actually got onto the tour proper, going on our first coach ride to Stonehenge then Bath, and finally Exeter. But some of the photos are from our first two days.


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Today was a practically perfect day, starting with the fact that I actually fell asleep last night! It felt so good wandering around London without being exhausted. Here's hoping I can keep up the good sleep tonight ( Read more... )

My mother, sister, and I have arrived in London safely for the first leg of our Great Britain Excursion. We're doing a Trafalgar tour through AAA cuz we wanted Easy but Fun. Yesterday, dad dropped us off at the airport and we flew to Charlotte and then on to Heathrow. The flight from Charlotte was delayed about an hour, so we wound up getting into ( Read more... )

So years ago my dad was asked by a neighbor lady how old he was and he said that he was "four with the fumb down." (Or at least, the neighbor lady told him that he said this as he doesn't remember it himself.) So we've had the expression in our family vernacular for many years. And today, I turned forty four, with both fumbs down ( Read more... )

Although I haven't been posting, I have been having a great end of the year. Amy arrived on Christmas and we had lunch at Waffle House* on our way back from the airport. That night was festivities with dad's side of the family, and next day was a party at our house with mom's side of the family. And that night I Skyped with judiang and elsaf which was fun. But ( Read more... )

I've mentioned before that I enjoy biking when the weather is amenable. We're very fortunate in Miami County to have a great set of bike paths for people to walk and ride upon. However, till this (late) summer, there was no contiguous path from Troy to Piqua (our two biggest cities). There was a planned bridge to go over the Miami River, but it ( Read more... )

This has been an interesting winter, to say the least. We wound up having two days off the week before last and even had a snow day last Wednesday. That now puts us at 9 days missed. Sounds like Ohio might be nice and give us 4 days beyond our normal 5 calamity days, so we shouldn't have many to make up (hopefully ( Read more... )

In 2013, I purchased 1840 individual MP3 files (17.3GB) which is over 161 hours of material. Of that, the majority (1437 files, 14.5GB, 134 hours) is what I classify as "Spoken Word" (AKA Big Finish and other audio adventures). What with Doctor Who turning 50 in 2013, I wound up purchasing quite a few Big Finish (and BBC Audio) stories. And enjoyed ( Read more... )

We were very fortunate to have a long Winter Break - two full weeks. And then Mother Nature decided that wasn't enough. Heh. Today was our third calamity day for 2014 and the fifth for this school year. And I ain't complaining! I love unexpected days off (and today was a particularly unexpected one).

( Boring details of the rest of my time off. )