Good and bad continues lately. Looking forward to leaving on my first install with the new job tomorrow morning. I will be in Chippewa Falls, WI from 27 June to 8 July. My flight in arrives about an hour ahead of the technician that will be leading the operation. He is coming in from Italy; I have already picked up a simple translation book as ( Read more... )

Never know what to expect. Been watching the birds enjoy the young grapes that finally grew in over my little trellis. Started to feel a bit down from that. Looking around the yard the other day, I noticed that a vine that had grown up around the bushes and trees near the side property line was also grapes. Amazingly it hadn't been pulled in ( Read more... )

Tag sale went off OK, considering off-and-on rain throughout the day. Made just about what I spent to get a rental truck for the day, got rid of stuff that was sitting around for years. Younger sister's neighborhood will do a street sale in early July, so there will be a chance to unload a little more then. Not that anyone on that street needs ( Read more... )

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Everything's as ready for the sale as its gonna get. Spent more of afternoon continuing search of job listings. Never heard the cell phone ring downstairs, ended up noticing the new message sign when I wandered down for blood -- 'scuse, coffee -- transfusion ( Read more... )

Motivation actually hit this week. I have cleaned the computer room, it is now completely organized, which is the first time since before we moved in 6+ years ago. (The previous occupants, and those before them, had left a bit of a pile in the adjoining crawl space ( Read more... )

(Friday, May 19, 2006 AP article): "What the president has said all along is that he wants to make sure that people who become American citizens have a command of the English language," (White House press secretary Tony) Snow said. "It's as simple as that."

Yeah, like BUSH would qualify!

Like, you know, when the neighborhood gas stations used to compete to have the lowest price instead of the highest?

Right now, I know of only one in this town under $3 for regular. Don't even try the high test in these parts!

...Wishing mystarfalling a very wonderful birthday, and many thanks to grandmapenguin for blessing the world with her!

1 for each day of the month ( Read more... )