All of you who throught you could come into my city and kill our people. Damn you all to the hell you belong in. I am shocked, disbeliving, and so very very angry right now.

Spent four hours in lockdown at work today. Many of the people in lockdown with me were muslims. There despair, and horror, and desperation to contact their loved ones was ( Read more... )

God-damn earthquakes. That is all I have to say right now.

It's Friday. And you know what that means? Work Christmas party this afternoon ( Read more... )

I have an account on Goodreads website and when I was in there today I noticed on my home page these statitics for me ( Read more... )

Haven't been around for a while. Life kinda got in the way. But I am happy to report that after 5 months (yes, that is 5 loooong months), I am back in my newly repaired, repainted, re-wallpapered house. Boxes are unpacked, books are back on book cases, and my life can now, finally, resume after it's small interruption ( Read more... )

It is finally over. The army has withdrawn today from the streets of my town, after two years and four months of constant occupation ( Read more... )

I haven't been around much recently. For anyone who may have wondered what I was up to, here it is ( Read more... )

Have just seen two very impressive waterfalls. Two walls of water, one on the left, one on the right, gallons of water pouring down them to splash on the floor. Yes, that's right, I said floor. For these were 'inside' waterfalls. The rain coming down was every bit as impressive as anything I've ever seen. Enough to shatter a couple of windows. Next ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I have a site meeting with the contractors who will be coming to fix my house, which is now just 14 days away. I have been ignoring it all for some time now, but with the site meeting tomorrow it's suddenly become all too real ( Read more... )

Do you know what it's like when you get a really good book and all you want to do is read it, but life keeps getting in the way ( Read more... )