Posted in Miscellaneous on Oct 31st, 2006
I followed a link on Meankitty’s blog to a story about a cat who chased a bear up a tree. John and I had a kitty named Symba with similar notions of her own badassedness. She weighed only seven pounds at her heaviest but would take on dogs ten times her size [...]
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Posted in Miscellaneous on Oct 30th, 2006
I just found out Jacqueline has tagged me. Is this kinda like being pinned? :-)
I'm supposed to come up with four interesting (I'm interpreting this as "bizarre") facts about myself and one complete lie, and blog readers are asked to guess which one's fake. I will accept guesses until 11:59 pm Eastern on Friday. [...]
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Posted in Miscellaneous on Oct 26th, 2006
Unfortunately, I have both chronic and acute arrogance. Whenever I need a firm reminder that I'm not all that, I break out a book of acrostics. Usually, the Penny Press puzzles are enough, but for particularly severe flare-ups, only the Simon & Schuster ones will do the job. (Even my mother-in-law, a master [...]
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Posted in Miscellaneous on Oct 24th, 2006
Okay, so I'm posting this a day later than I said I would. I was just plain BEAT yesterday, so I did most of my computing from the Clié instead of Wilma (my tablet) or my main PC. Y'know, most of the time I don't feel much different from when I was in my twenties. [...]
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Posted in Miscellaneous on Oct 22nd, 2006
In order:
Found the closest Quik Trip
Flushed a REAL toilet (Quite the luxury after three days of Porta-Potties)
Brushed my teeth (Ever tried brushing your teeth in the rain?)
Bought the biggest Diet Coke they sell (I may never drink Gatorade again!)
I'll post a more detailed wrap-up of the event tomorrow. My team members were [...]
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