Seems like I'm reading about a lot of people on LJ who are agreeing to a challenge to lose X amount of weight by some particular date ( Read more... )

It struck me the other day how much of life is really trying to understand the "extremes" of many different things, and trying to decide where "in the middle" you want to be ( Read more... )

I find the whole "perception vs. reality" a fascinating subject. I'm reading several books right now that have different aspects of this.

Flatterland is a "sequel" to Flatland (one of the worlds greatest books). Basically, the author wanted to add new ideas that hadn't been around when Flatland was written. As with the original, much of the book ( Read more... )

There was a major storm around these parts last night -- high winds, rain, etc.

We lost power just before 5AM and didn't get it back until about 5 hours later.

Here's a bit of the scorecard for what happened:

Emergency flashlights: We have several that plug into the wall so that they are always charged. Unfortunately, we left them in the "auto" ( Read more... )

You have to love Despair.com. I can't decide which of these shirts I should get:


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With all the goodies around (many of them baked by me), I've decided to go back on my should-be-patented "toothpaste diet".

Here's how the "toothpaste diet" works: basically you eat whatever you really want, but you have to go brush your teeth after each eating episode.

This accomplishes several things:

• Brushing your teeth helps kill the taste of ( Read more... )

Today was not a good day for an introvert. I had been feeling like I needed to stay away from people, but tonight was a weekly pot luck/movie night and the movie looked pretty interesting. We went last week and I found the people & movie interesting (but, it still took energy just to be there). I decided that I would go, and made something I ( Read more... )

I have a wonderful life, and every day I feel thankful for that.

Today I make an extra effort to think of all the things that I have to be thankful for. Looks like I'll be busy most of the day just doing that.

I hope that you all have many things to be thankful for.

As I was walking the dog this morning, I saw a few houses with additions under construction. That got me thinking about how house size seems to go up and down. Houses in the US used to be pretty small. Then back in the early 1900's some people built really big houses By the 60's, many of them were split up into apartments because they were too big ( Read more... )

I'm considering getting a Macbook Plus (for digital photography processing).

Any thoughts, comments, gotcha's?

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