Wow! I've just figured out how to get the open-design, airy, contemporary, über-environmentally-friendly house that I'd someday like to live in.

It's to buy a Living Home. You simply must go to the web site and take the tourI really like these people. They've really thought of everything. It's reality -- not fantasy. It uses products and ( Read more... )

Just a reminder: My journal is now friends-only, at least for substantive entries.

All right -- few people under 30 should get married. Success, as defined by still being happily married after 10 or 20 years, does happen. But it's rare. Do divorce statistics prove otherwise ( Read more... )

Better late than ... yeah.

Inspired in part by my friend hotsauce, who participated in November's NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month, in which participants vowed to post blog entries daily), which was itself inspired by NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, which admits to being entirely about quantity, not quality, and which undoubtedly tolerates ( Read more... )

"United States of America - to - Philip Hobaugh [the original owner of this land ( Read more... )

Democrats regained control yesterday of the House (and probably the Senate) via a clever, if seemingly unorthodox, strategy: A nearly-complete lack of detail of their agenda ( Read more... )

To anybody reading this who happens to work with me every weekday from 8a to 6p, greetings.

( Oh, do I have juicy gossip for you! )

(With thanks to one of my LiveJournal friends, whose recent private post finally inspired me to write a little about these issues, this is an additionally-edited copy of my response to her ( Read more... )

... when the young people you know still like ya. Out of the blue, my young friend Gaia IM'd me today and brought a smile to my face. I sure needed it. She's living out of state now, and we hadn't talked in a few months. Video chats, iPods, Photoshop'd photos, and e-mail are now all second nature. How quickly they grow!


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