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July 4th
The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, “My country, right or wrong.” In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
Senator CARL SCHURZ, remarks in the Senate, February 29, 1872 -
Swashbucklers of the Seven Skies
For the Seattle area folks.
The "not having an RPG group" is getting to me.
Anyone up for an S7S game? -
The Revolution Will Be On Twitter
I think we can stop the gratuitous "Twitter bashing" at this point ( Read more... ) -
Now to wait a month or two to see how it turned out...
As of this morning, I have a 280 gram pork eye of round (from Sammish Bay) hanging in my drying fridge ( Read more... ) -
Anyone play with a Velocity Micro MX220?
The specs look pretty nifty, the price looks good, and the hard drive on this machine has (looking at the Event Viewer) been kicking up paging issues since at least mid-February. -
Bad News and Good News
Kismet's trachea is starting to weaken.
That's the bad news.
The good news is that so far she has an extremely mild case. -
Organizational Roles and Reporting
First, I'd like to welcome Kenneth. He will be filling the role of Junior Dog, and reporting to kalluna. Kismet, following her promotion to Senior Dog, will continue to report to me. Mortimer will remain as Senior Pet (a role he has fulfilled admirably since 2002) and will continue to report to no one. He is after all, a cat. -
Coping with Change
Kismet knows something happened.
Cyrano went away, and didn't come back.
She is watching the two of us constantly. Disappearance of both of us (say, to the basement) is cause for alarm, followed by relief and delight when we reappear.
We might go away too. -
When Good Intentions Go Wrong
Back in the early 1990s, kalluna and I founded and ran Metro Denver Pomeranian Rescue. We didn't have much money, we had a 642 square foot, two bedroom house in what was, to be charitable, a marginal neighborhood ( Read more... )
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