Borrowed from jan_can_too.

It's disconcerting when I carefully answer a long test and get an analysis that doesn't seem to fit at all. However, the conclusion--He would get angry when you did not, be calm and poised when you felt ruffled and anxious, and always be the voice of emotion and reason in your ear--does describe the sort of daemon I think would be ( Read more... )

I guess if I'm ever going to start posting again, I'll have to do it the easy way. Silly quiz borrowed from figmo.

Have you ever.....

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a ( Read more... )

I haven't started the daily vacation posts--something about actually having vacation and not even being online for three and a half days.

Today, the kid was being exasperating, and was told, "Think of other people." And she said, "Why? It's not Christmas!"

Tomorrow, we're back in the Bay Area. And at night, the raccoons come.

Happiness is the sound of raccoons nursing.

Some things don't seem to change much [a cupcake has lost part of its topping in an unfortunate tumble on the floor]: "Mommy! If you'll just give me more frosting--then I'll be happy!!"

Sunday morning, in a somewhat ironic turn of events, our hosts left for the Bay Area in their nice red Prius. We packed up, and headed out to visit a Titan missile (sans its warhead). I was rather dubious about it, but in fact found it fascinating. When all the Titan missiles were decommissioned in 1982, this one was saved as a museum. Since ( Read more... )

We met our hosts for breakfast at a truck stop in Wilcox, before they headed back to Tucson. Our plan was to go to Katchner Caverns. However, we missed the tiny sign when we got off the highway by about 30 miles, and wound up in the little, unremarkable town of Sierra Vista, where we found tourist literature that alerted us to our mistake. By ( Read more... )

On the Fourth of July, we got out of town and went to jikme and tsennyipa’s retreat center in Bowie. It of course was just as brutally hot, but we enjoyed being outside and took lots of pictures of the beautiful scenery.


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This year’s vacation with gomijacogeo was to visit jikme and tsennyipa in Tucson, where I had been in '05 and '06. We flew Southwest into Phoenix (paying extra for Group A seats is a good deal; we were nearly the first on the plane in both directions). Everything went extremely smoothly upon landing, and we were quickly on our way to Tucson. The evening sun was bright ( Read more... )

This is what I'm getting myself for a birthday present this year.