I'm still alive! Isn't that neat ( Read more... )

Sunday was another meeting (date?) with the girl I've gotten to know the past few weeks. I took her to the Albright-Knox Art Museum in Buffalo, followed by a performance of "The Tempest" at Shakespeare in Delaware Park. We both had a good time, but while we get along, there was no handholding; nothing above small talk. Like a barrier ( Read more... )

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Waiting at work for the press people to get the paper going, so I can check the first issues to get off the press and go home (and then come back again by noon tomorrow -- yay!). I noticed something tonight, however ( Read more... )

I haven't updated this in quite a while, and I think I'm remembering why. This thing takes a little bit of time to load on dial-up. Regardless, though, I've gotten this far, so I better make use of it ( Read more... )

Bea Arthur has passed away:
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jWJzbpz6W3uiITeCx7dd5OlB33DAD97PMLA01

This news will assuredly have a negative impact on a number of people. If you happen to know a friend or family member rendered inconsolable by this tragic passing, here are some steps to help him or her through the grieving process:

1. Speak to ( Read more... )

I checked one of the items off my list today: viewing the Kimono Exhibit in Canton, OH before it left. I was even lucky enough to meet up with Ohio friends to do it ( Read more... )

I came in to work yesterday, scheduled to finish up the newspaper, only to find only one page of it had been done during the day, and that page needed cleaning up. It became a pretty long night after that, but it all turned out all right. Went to bed around 2 a.m ( Read more... )

Red pandas like artificial sweeteners.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/mcsc-rpr041509.php

Carry on.

Last night, while working pages in the office, I received a call from a local man. He told me how his dog had recently passed away and he had buried it on his property, setting up a cross and a solar-powered light to shine on it ( Read more... )