The dog and I are in a fight ( Read more... )

Saw many alligators and several crocodiles without getting attacked by any. More later.

There's a mayfly that seems quite enamored with my computer. (I'm sitting outside the closed visitor's center for the state park where I'm staying ( Read more... )

I'm leaving. Goodbye my home for over a year, and goodbye to the area where my heart lies for 2 1/2 years. And that isn't what I'm nervous about. It's a major road trip: from Massachusetts to Washington State, via Florida.

Griffey is returning to the Mariner's! This actually make me punch the air. In the library. And I never watch baseball. Just, y'know, hometown pride.

And this is all I needed for my birthday. Yes, I watched the inauguration online. I am very grateful to MSNBC, which worked when the WA Post website, already stuttering, stopped during the John Williams theme.

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There was a cute article recently in the NY Times, consisting of some sleected letters from a book of letters kids wrote to ( Read more... )

Washington Post headline for an article regarding security measures for the inaugeration:
"Virginians See Bridge Closings As Dose of Northern Hospitality"

Shouldn't that be hostility?

It started snowing last night. Just a touch on the ground currently, but I'm comfy sitting inside next to roaring fire. At the library. If only there was an electric kettle here for my tea, and then I'd never leave.

Sadness: Seattle's tuba busker died.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/us/14tubaman.html?th&emc=th

A saccharine article about three presidents:
"I said `Bill, I'm getting ready to meet with the new president and I remember how gracious you were to me,'" Bush said. "'I hope I can be as gracious to President-elect Obama as you were to me.'"