"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Family, Party, Photo entries on Jun 8th, 2009
and miraculously not deeper in debt. Well, yesterday was my birthday, so I guess I’m now officially 32, though I’ve been telling people I was 32 for about the past 3 months. I have a longstanding habit of rounding up whenever my birthday is nearish. I think it may track back to the childish habit [...]
Posted in Adventures, biking, dumb things I have done, Family, Party, Redline Monocog 29er, Utter Silliness on May 26th, 2009
I rode the Redline to work today to make sure that all is in good order for the Dirty Kanza, which is only days away at this point. All, indeed, is. That bike is such a pleasure and a joy to ride in any of its many guises. For the upcoming weekend, it’s done up [...]
Posted in Cats, Distractions, Family, Utter Silliness on May 7th, 2009
This entry is mainly for my sister’s amusement, though I am sure other folks will enjoy the adventures of Maru, a Scottish Fold cat from Japan. You can watch videos of Maru in bouncey, pouncey action, too. Maru is a round-faced, round-eyed, stocky mostly-grey-tabby cat who reminds me of Boda, my sister’s glorious oaf of [...]
Posted in Family, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Apr 15th, 2009
Well, I’ve finally got a new job! I can’t even begin to express how very relieved and happy I am to be back amongst the employed again. Even if the work becomes stressful, it won’t be a patch on the stresses of knowing that you are steadily and inexorably going broke. Of course before I [...]
I’ve been reading other people’s blogs in DC and Japan, especially, talking about cherry blossom viewing. It is that time of the year! Here in KC, we have a lot of trees blooming…mostly crabapple, redbud, and Bradford pear. I don’t know that there are any cherry trees to speak of, but there are plenty of [...]
Posted in Family on Jun 19th, 2008
“Eena-mina mink-munk Clink-clunk Oooza-wooza becka-dish Eye-ah why-ah weck!” This is a nonsense choosing-rhyme my Grandma taught my sister and I when we were little kids; it was her version of “Eeenie meenie miney-mo.” I’m not sure if it was entirely made up by Grandma and her brother when they were kids, or if this was [...]
Posted in Family on May 9th, 2008
I was walking across the room to investigate the ice-cream situation when I heard my dad utter the above phrase. I knew he’d hit his stride. It was the weekend before last, at James & Dahlia’s get-together for their daughter’s first birthday. We’d dropped by to say hello and hand over a big bowl of [...]
Posted in Family on Apr 30th, 2008
My folks were down for a visit this past weekend which was AWESOME. It’s been quite a while since they were able to get away and since the weather co-operated with them. They’d been planning to come a couple of weeks ago and got snowed in the day they meant to leave. April blizzards are [...]
Posted in Family on Apr 1st, 2008
My folks live way out in the outer boondocks of northwestern Nebraska and have been Neighbors of Note since about 1973, when they first bought the “new” Dunlap store. Back when my folks were newbies to the neighborhood, they were “those California hippies who bought Dunlap.” I think a lot of people were expecting [...]
Posted in Adventures, Family, Photo entries on Jan 15th, 2008
Yeah, the winter blah’s have set in on me, which is why it has now taken me nearly three days to post a weekend wrapup consisting of a couple of paragraphs, a couple of photographic links, and not much else. I can’t shake this hibernatin’ feeling. So, on with the entry I started writing on [...]
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