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Two years since my last post?
Time flies when you are wasting it on Facebook. -
just watched the Kentucky Derby ...
... and Scott started giggling over winning jockey Calvin Borel. Borel has won 3 Derbies in the past four years and is an excellent rider, despite having southern accent so thick that he needs subtitles. And, well ... he looks like Gollum.
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freaky Colorado weather
Rain has been in the forecast all week. Yesterday morning I found my aging Saturn covered in ... MUD. Snow or ice would have made sense. But the entire car streaked with mud, as if she had been splashing in puddles all night ( Read more... ) -
I see the connection now!
I've been a lousy blogger for some time now. After years of posting, I just stopped writing and couldn't figure out what had caused my loss of motivation. Was it because I was unemployed/partially employed? Too much time on Gaia, Facebook and FetLife ( Read more... ) -
venting to Comcast
from Comcast: "It’s time to switch from McAfee to the top-rated Norton ™ Security Suite - it’s included with your Comcast High-Speed Internet subscription at no additional charge! (Norton Security Suite is a $160 value). This means you'll enjoy an even better combination of speed, performance, industry-leading protection, and ease of use with ( Read more... ) -
the amazing talking Yoda
Five or six years ago, I got Scott a talking Yoda toy for Christmas. He's a very cute rubber replica, about 8 inches tall, who gives cryptic answers to "yes or no" questions when you squeeze his left hand. Most of the time he utters things like, "The answer I sense is 'no'." After a session of hand-squeezing, he'll wait about 5 minutes and then ( Read more... ) -
Nat Geo's "Crittercam"
"Crittercam" is a National Geographic program that puts video cameras on wild animals to study their behavior. As camera size decreases and digital resolution increases, researchers are getting wonderful videos of and by wild animal species. They make me a bit motion-sick, but are still very cool ( Read more... ) -
continuing ed for teachers
In the interest of keeping up-to-date on current trends in education, I signed up for a bunch of Cherry Creek district courses on student literacy. I figured that I would have the time to put into them, since I'm only partially employed. (Subs don't work every day, and we don't have homework.) Unfortunately, the courses are geared for "working ( Read more... ) -
Does Torchwood's Rift really exist?!
According to Dr. Who/Torchwood, the city of Cardiff, Wales sits on a rift in time and space, through which various aliens reach the Earth and get stranded. Recently eyeless, white, flesh-eating slugs have been discovered in gardens in Cardiff. Speculation is that they somehow got from caves in Turkey to urban Wales. Hm ... maybe they fell ( Read more... )
