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I've Had Worse
As Mondays go, this was a good one. I didn't sleep much last night, due to an empty bed- Doug was on travel and the cats are too hot in their fur coats to sleep upstairs, so I tossed and I turned, and was up at 5:30 even though I didn't go to bed until after 2 ( Read more... ) -
36 Hours in the Dark
The power company finally got us back on the grid at around 4 AM, approximately 36 hours after being knocked out by any number of enormous fuck-off oak trees that were sent flying by Wednesday's storm. The Internetz is still down, but I'm making do with a Sprint mobile wi-fi card today. Yesterday, I had to go into the office for electricity and ( Read more... ) -
New Gear
Last summer, my husband got a case of motorcycle envy, after listening to his buddies talking about their adventures riding around in the Shenandoah countryside. So, he bought a motorcycle. It's a BMW, like the other guys' - Let's be clear: we're not talking about the Harley crowd. There are no leather halter tops and cut-off shorts, no ponytails ( Read more... ) -
CSC Bike Race Sunday in Clarendon
If anyone's a pro-cycling fan, don't miss the CSC Invitational on Sunday. It's a fun day if the weather's nice.
The pro women's race starts at 10:15, men start at 12:15. Bring a chair.
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Drama Queen
This is dedicated to my good friend, *****. Personally, I think we can all use a little drama now and then ( Read more... ) -
Tuscany Pics
We had a fabulous week in Tuscany recently, but it's taken me a couple of weeks to sort through 300 photos, which I still haven't done all that well but I've gotten it down to 80 or so. The first 10 should be enough to make you want to go there immediately.
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cPickle -- A faster pickle
You know, when shit like this starts making sense, it's time for a change of scenery. WTF?
"Pickling'' is the process whereby a Python object hierarchy is converted into a byte stream, and ``unpickling'' is the inverse operation ( Read more... )
