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Happy Mother's Day
To all of my dear friends who are mothers or fulfill mothering roles in their lives. You are in my thoughts today. Thank you to all of you for all you do. The world is a more loving and loved place because of you. -
A Tulip Thief Strikes Again
I wrote another letter to the editor. I'm going to put cayenne mixture on the rest of the tulips. I am going to put some sort of ironic yet warning sort of sign in our front yard. I'm not going to warn them about the cayenne, just that this is not a public flower picking garden, so lay off. But something wittier. If anyone has any suggestions, ( Read more... ) -
Chorus Endeavor!
Hello Chorus Fans! Here are the details on our next lovely concert ( Read more... ) -
Strathmore Spring-Double dutch
This is the other ad using a different portion of the same piece. RIP, Martyn. I'm glad your music is still out there. -
Strathmore Spring-ribbons
A recent connection to my favorite artist inspired me to want to share his stuff a bit more. This is a commercial for Scottish spring water that uses Martyn Bennett's piece "Spree" from his impossible to find album, Hardland. -
Happy Shakespeare's Birthday!
I have never read this sonnet until today. I rather like the encouragement of it ( Read more... ) -
Blue Man Group and Connectedness
Among the various work activities I've had going on lately, the one today was taking my kids to see Blue Man Group in Boston. I haven't seen that show in about 8 years. It was even more fabulous than I remembered. Part of this was due to our fantastic seats, arranged by the sister of one of the cast members who is a co-worker of mine. We were in ( Read more... ) -
It is home now.
We don't have a name for it yet. But the new "rig" or computer is now safely on our desk and purring away. -
The Computer Decision
Thank you to everyone out there who chimed in with great advice on how to handle our little computer crisis. It's been quite amazing to see just how reliant Jenn and I have become on that little machine for so many things. In the end (and we are not quite at the end, but almost) we decided to bite the bullet and get a new system. We had been ( Read more... ) -
A Plague Upon my Computer. . .Help Please
Part two. I was hoping there wouldn't be a part two. I thought that I was going to be able to solve a bunch of issues with various cleaning up proceedures. What happens instead is that yesterday, I get five blue screens in a row. Five. They all basically say the same thing and have lots of code numbers in the tech. part. The first one came up ( Read more... )