It's a beautiful day today, sunny and cool.

I want to go for a walk.
I want to ride my bike.
I want to sit on my deck and work on the myriad knitting projects that are almost finished.

But I have to go to work to try to get close to finishing the pile of documents that are due this week. *sigh*

Trains I've ridden (mouseover the logo to see the city)....


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Went down to visit ratgrl in her new house. Also got to spend time with the first two kittens I helped birth. They are now 9 weeks old and playful and super cute.

I had a huge memory card and new batteries, so there were a ton of photos. The best ones are here.

Also got some video of kittens hard at play (quicktime):
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Doesn't Ed realize that I've got, like, 3 or 4 old mobile phones laying around the house? And they thought macaroni hurt....

Scott was back over the weekend for graduation. Last night he took me to The Cheesecake Factory for a birthday dinner. While we were waiting to be seated, 2 tables had Happy Birthday sung to them. While we were eating, 4 other tables had it sung to them. I guess Geminis really like The Cheesecake Factory.

Thanks for the birthday wishes,

Which would you prefer as striped socks?


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Knit bloggers do all sorts of weird exchanges, sending each other care packages, knitting socks for each other, and other things. I'm involved in a swap where everyone dyes a ball of sock yarn and sends it to their partner. I'm trying to do something a little advanced and dye something that will turn out to be striped as you knit ( Read more... )

Guess the song and artist from these samples. First 5 seconds of each song in MP3 format. No googling! ;)

1. Track 1 (thehypo: Have You Seen My Love (instrumental), Barenaked Ladies)
   
2. Track 2 (helianthemum: Star, Erasure)
   
3. Track 3 (peachespig: Young Offender, New Order)
   
4. *** Track 4 (10 secs) (letterstoed: ????, Duran Duran)
   
5. Track 5 (letterstoed: Only When You Leave, Spandau Ballet)
   
6. *** Track 6 ( Read more... )

The rules: Guess the song and artist based on the first line(s) of a song. Googling lyrics is cheating. Listening to songs to try to figure out what that one is that is eating you is not.

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Guess the songs based on the first lines.

1. "[song title]
   Thirty-two softly focused, brightly-colored eyes" (coco_keesses: 16 Military Wives, The ( Read more... )