But I'll confess I often dislike the denizens therein.

Today I drove over to my old neighborhood to do my laundry in a cleaner, brighter location. It was a nice, open laundrymat. And if the washers were $5.50 apiece, at least they were plenty large enough to do a double load, and the dryers, though $.55 for ten minutes, were indeed as efficient as ( Read more... )

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www.beliefnet.com/Entertainment/Quizzes/BeliefOMatic.aspx 1. Neo-Pagan (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (96%) 3. New Age (95%) 4. Liberal Quakers (90%) 5. Secular Humanism (83%) 6. Mahayana Buddhism (73%) 7. Taoism (73%) 8. Theravada Buddhism (72%) 9. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (71%) 10. Scientology (61%) 11. New ( Read more... )

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When I'm driving home sometimes the fighter jets are out, circling the NAS like June bugs on a string.

Got this from eats_veggies :

Legend has it that the average person has read only 6 books of this list of 100 books. (I forgot to count at first. I've read fifty of them. Not too shabby.)

1.Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 Lord of the Rings trilogy - Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
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... is when Slinky stares with rapt attention, her forepaws up on a conveniently placed box and her long, slender body stretched out, watching wolves, coyotes and birds ( Read more... )

Thomas has been playing with a pom pom--one I brought in from the car--for over an hour.

Socks was put to sleep today.

Amazing. He was about a year younger than my Nik, and lived about as long.

Even though Facebook has backed off their change in terms, I'm not sure I see how it is possible for anyone to think they automatically own rights in my original work. And even though my life is mundane much of the time, and this is really no huge attempt to create the next Great American Novel, I just want to put the Intarwebs on OFFICIAL NOTICE ( Read more... )