I'm currently suffering from an Impacted Cranial Melody. In other words, I have a song stuck in my head, and it's been on 'replay' for 3-days now!

For reasons I can't quite explain, from time to time, Petula Clark breaks into the refrain from Downtown, reminding me of how great things will be once I get there... I don't think I've heard this ( Read more... )

Thanks to the game company doing better this year than we did in the previous 2, I got a bit of a surprise for my birthday...


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It started falling the week before Christmas, and it certainly stayed for the holiday!

( Snow Days )

We see him very rarely, but he is around... apparently waiting in ambush.

( Sharp-shinned Hawk )

This month I received two photos - one from my mom, and the other from my father-in-law - which just happened to represent the beginning and most recent end of an activity I rather enjoy.

( Salmon Fishing )

It's only the 4th day of the month and we already have something - no matter how big, or how small - penciled in on all but 8 of the days for the month. In fact, I just got off of the phone, having rescheduled something from tonight to Wednesday the 10th. I just hope that sort of thing doesn't have to happen too often. We don't have much room to

For 10-years, my brother-in-law (paxnirvana's husband) and I have been attending the home games of our favorite NFL team, the Seattle Seahawks - the last 9-years as season ticket holders. It's a spectacle not much different from what the Romans got started all those years ago, only nobody gets eaten during the halftime show - no matter how much they might ( Read more... )

Sometimes we have to do things to keep ourselves running that we'd rather not. Every 7-weeks or so I have to go in to a Seattle clinic for an infusion. It's a chemo drug that's being tried on me - though, not for cancer. I've had something called Crohn's for more than 28-years, and the blasted thing keeps changing the rules. The latest version ( Read more... )

I find it hard to believe, but these days my wife and I are using butter instead of margarine, because it's cheaper!

In the past 8-years, the price of a one pint tub of Golden Soft margarine has gone up 292%, from $0.89 to $2.59! They initially claimed higher gas prices for the increases, but we have gas locally at $1.87 per gallon right now - if ( Read more... )

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