Well, today has been an icky, stressful, moody, nervous, jittery Monday, for no real reason that I can deduce.

Tomorrow will be better, thank God(dess)....

It has absolutely no say in the matter.

I feel about like I'm sleepwalking right now... the result of a lovely, awesome weekend down in Austin with my dear boy Brian. What all did we do? Went to the botanical gardens... had some good food from funky local places (not counting only-decent Saturday-am breakfast buffet at the hotel)... met up with revrb not once but twice for photography and ( Read more... )

Making fudge oat chip
just for me, late on work night -
yummy decadence!
This poem comes from the fact that lately, I've been doing most of my cookie baking for others... Brian and Mark, specifically. Sure, I'd test the dough, sop the bowl, and get a cookie or two of the finished product, but the vast majority of my creations were ( Read more... )

...and the (legal) drugs like me ( Read more... )

...and posted in my dear Brian's forum, in response to a poem he posted last night.

Untitled (as of yet)
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Barbecue, macaroni,
buffalo, pepperoni

Shared pizza, shared words,
shared conversations about words ( Read more... )

Happy New Year to one and all ( Read more... )

A voice of pure reason in the debate about airport security...

If this article had been given as a speech, I'd have awarded it with a standing ovation.

"The Airport Security Follies" by Patrick Smith (pilot) from the New York Times

Now the question is, what can we DO about this?

Got back in tonight from a Christmas visit with my folks.

I had a good visit, and a good holiday. I got to see tn_tiger and a bunch of my family on my mom's side. For gifts, I got a set of pretty chili-red quilted placemats, a bathroom rug & some washcloths to match my Texas-flag shower curtain, and a pair of super-comfortable fuzzy red lounge/sleep ( Read more... )

Late this afternoon, right before time to go home, I was walking through the warehouse facing the dock doors, where the honeygold early-evening sunlight was shooting through a crevice between the doorway and the edge of the trailer backed up to it. Our warehouse, being a busy warehouse, is a fairly dusty place. But this proved to be a good thing ( Read more... )