Since I've gotten inquiries, I will give answers ( Read more... )

It has been a long while since I posted a request for photo captions, so I think that it is high time I do so...


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Last September, I wrote the below entry, but never posted it. It was written after someone I care about was diagnosed with type II diabetes and (at the time)I was unsure how he would take the entry. Yesterday, I found out that someone else quite dear to me just received the same diagnosis, so I figured that it was high time to dig this out to be ( Read more... )

If only the clerk had a piece of paper handy...

http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2008/05/30/local_news/doc4840088067924709507780.txt

Every day on my way to the office, I pass that big billboard near the state line that announces the current Mega Millions jackpot (if I look in my rear view mirror as I pass it, I can see the Powerball jackpot on the opposite side of the board). Not infrequently, I spend a good portion of the rest of my journey down the tollway thinking about that ( Read more... )

-At this very moment, I am frying up part of Homemade-From-Scratch Spinach and Feta Pierogi (version 2.0.). After Sunday's experiment, I decided to tweak the formula a bit tonight. Why? Because it made Storm squee with sheer schmoop. *grin*

-Speaking of food, the pup has requested that I make these:

Bacon chocolate chip cookies with a maple ( Read more... )

A couple of months ago, I helped out a friend who had unexpectedly needed to exponentially hasten her job search. At that time, I’d culled a huge list of local Milwaukee and national websites for her to use to post her resume and search opportunities, another big list of local and national sites that were just job boards, as well as a list of other ( Read more... )

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23571516Despite a certain degree of jingoistic taint to the journalism ("War on Terror." Ugh. Can we please abolish this blort of doublespeak?), I found the subject matter of this piece fascinating. Not really for the whole "war effort" take on the project, but rather, for the way that something so simple addresses ( Read more... )

The last few weeks have been extremely rough on a good number of us. I’m not going to do the litany of whys. Things are spiraling in ways big and small. There’s a general malaise in Live Journal, at work, and seemingly everywhere and with everyone ( Read more... )

GAH! I can’t believe that I hadn’t gotten around to posting this! I’d promised MandaKatt that I’d spread the word.

*Her post explaining the situation*She’s up in Minnesota (which I realize many of you are not), but I figured that I’d send this through the regional furry grapevine in hope of giving her some assistance in finding homes for the animals. Any ( Read more... )