i've run into a problem ... i -love- to cook and, almost as much, eat ... i live alone and tend to cook for only myself ... i really do not like spending too much on food, nor letting that food go to waste ... the least expensive way to buy food is in bulk ... given these conditions i find myself buying large amounts of food, cooking half and ( Read more... )

went to the Norwalk scottish games yesterday with a friend and his sons ... what a wonderful day! seeing the joy and awe of the boys as they saw/heard pipes being played, men walking around in 'dresses', crazy people tossing telephone poles around -they tried this themselves, much smaller poles though- ;p ... my friend even got into the tug-of ( Read more... )

been looking at the pictures on my hdd and decided this one was too funny to let sit there unviewed ... can't come up with an acceptable caption though ... some really funny ones come to mind and i just haven't the right one ... thought of the cats saying "but there's only one! ... we need to wait longer!" or something to that effect ...


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i have a friend who is pregnant (which, according to my definition of the term, means she is beautiful beyond how beautiful she already was before her pregnancy) and i, as many of us probably have when someone is close enough to allow us too, have reached out a few times and held/stroked/felt the baby through her stomach. which i guess is my point ( Read more... )

i must tell you ... weather -real weather, not the stuff that can pass for a nice day- is exciting ... it can also be rather interesting if shelter is not close at hand ;p ... standing outside a friends house the other night, sheltered enough to not be in most of the wind and rain, i got to see (read be in) an entire cell of a thunderstorm ( Read more... )

roflol !!! last night my new roommates took off for the weekend ... i was of course looking forward to the weekend being quiet and unencumbered with others in the house ... and i miss them! ... goes to show me, given the right roommates -or a close facsimile- even i, 1st-class curmudgeon in training, can get on with them ... go figure ( Read more... )

i've not posted for far too long ... and am not sure what is prompting me to do so now ... perhaps the Spring borne loss of view due to growing leaves and flowers ... not to say leaves and flowers are not a good thing just that the impending loss is somewhat sad ... i miss the open sky and stark beauty of the high plains and deserts ... talking ( Read more... )

i am now at the point i thought i would never reach ... i am seriously bored !!! perhaps lethargic would be a better term ... and it's not i have nothing to do ... i have - many! - books to read, though the ones i have left after almost 3 months downtime are only onscreen material 8^( ... [it is difficult to read myself to sleep sitting at my desk ( Read more... )

Tomorrow ... twenty-nine years ago, i was all of 25yo ... i, foolishly, was planning to go into Boston and spend a lot of money on a Nikon ... my First Sergeant had agreed to give me the day off and someone with a car was taking me ... mind you, this was only a few months before i was going to be married and i was spending money like it was going ( Read more... )

as i've said before ... interesting is not a good thing, exciting it may be and still, not a good thing ... yesterday was interesting 8^( ... woke up around 2am and of course got on the computer, installed the latest version of PSPro and removed that older one from the corel suite ... bad move !!! ... ended getting a critical stop error when i ( Read more... )