Bev noticed something unusual at Walgreen's today. You can apparently buy sympathy cards by the box now. Logically, I suppose it makes sense, as everyone has to go sometime, but who would ever think to buy them in bulk? Mass murderers with a guilty conscience?

Indianapolis Colts: finishing what Mrs. O'Leary's Cow started.

My parents are okay. They're about five miles north of the affected area. Not everyone else was so lucky ( Read more... )

The next morning, December 24, 2004, Bev, Dwayne, and I got into Dwayne's car for the purpose of seeing Wave Rock, but also to run some errands down in Hyden. We took a dirt road for miles and miles, stopping the car every so often to snap a photo. At one stop, we encountered a racehorse goanna - a type of lizard that's built nearly as solid as a ( Read more... )

Q, the flow rate in cubic feet per second, is equal to I, the intensity of rainfall in inches per hour, times A, the runoff area in acres, times c, a fudge runoff factor indicating how absorbent the ground is. A relatively impermeable area such as an asphalt parking lot or a rooftop would have a 'c' ranging from 0.90 to 1.00, whereas a grassy field ( Read more... )

Still the secretary of the GCA. At a little over four years, I'm now the longest serving continuous Board member. So I was checking my chess-related email, when an unusual message came in ( Read more... )

Once again, JB has the right idea, even if his meme experience has been horribly libelous about me lately. But I really need to update this sucker more often, too ( Read more... )

I only met her once, at a ToriCon in Atlanta, the summer of 1998. We didn't talk much then, or email much later - I think this LJ contains more correspondence with her than anything else. But she was a wonderful, caring person who helped her friends when they needed it in whatever way she could ( Read more... )

Books started and completed this year ( Read more... )

We interrupt the 2-year hiatus of "What I did during someone else's Australian summer vacation" to bring you a trivial revelation of the differences between my wife Bev's family (ooo, spoilers!) and my own ( Read more... )

and I said "oh, do you come from land down under ( Read more... )