Amusing fallout from last week's accident: one of my friends on staff was giving me a hard time -- "Well, considering that small car you drive... now if you were driving a REAL car ( Read more... )

The day got off to a start with a, errr, bang, when my car was slightly rear-ended on my way into work. All's well with me, all's functional on the car, and all it did was put a 12-inch crease in the metal of the outside of the hatchback and crack the paint in two places. You can barely see the damage, no cracked taillights even. But the CRUNCH ( Read more... )

The kitten informs me that I brought home a large bag of the World's Best Cat Toys this week: at the craft store, I spent $5.47 for a large bag (300 of assorted sizes) of bright colored pom poms, ranging from about 1/2 inch to 2 inches in size. They are fuzzy; they are very lightweight, so she can bat them around to her heart's content or carry ( Read more... )

Currently making the rounds is an exercise where you go to Wikipedia, enter your birthdate (month and day) and pick a few interesting bits from the resulting list.

Their coverage for periods I'm actually interested in is a bit spotty, but here's what I was intrigued by ( Read more... )

My standard answer when anyone asks me how the kitten is doing is "She's still bouncing off the walls ( Read more... )

In a happier mode, we had a respite from the smokiness of the air this week, though with a brief relapse yesterday (probably something local, it's gone this morning). Nice to see blue sky again ( Read more... )

I've been back from Boston for about a week now... the trip back was about as unexciting as the trip over. Boring plane trips are good, however, since they mean there was no "excitement" caused by air turbulence and so forth. I do occasionally regret (old fogey mini-rant here) that modern planes fly so high that you really can't see a whole lot of ( Read more... )

Lifted from goldenstag, the idea is to bold the items that pertain to you ...

BTW, I sometimes surprise people with my answers to this. If I've surprised you, and you let me know, I think it adds to the fun ;)

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Rules: Post 3 things you've done that you believe nobody else on your F-list has done.
Indulge in remorse if someone calls you out on a listed item.

1. Been inside the cloistered area in a Poor Clare monastery.

2. Touched the reindeer horns in Abbots Bromley.

3. Banded bats. (The mammal kind, not the wooden kind ;)

I'd forgotten what having a young kitten is like.

Half the time, bouncing-off-the-walls energy -- the other half, little kitty snores and adorable paw-over-nose cuteness. ( Cut for those not into extended kitten-maunderings.... )