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Revenge of the Glitter Gods
Kirk is getting around to finishing up the sound system in the bedroom, which, when all is said and done, will outperform the one in the living room. He must love me since it’s all attached to the computer and therefore is mainly for my benefit when working. Things don’t always go as smoothly as we’d like though. When he…
Read more »Always Passing Through
Heading home from a few days in Duncan at the hatchery. Thought I might be able to catch the 12:30 ferry. No such luck, the 3pm it is then. Driving into Nanaimo. Those old familiar feelings pop up again. Bitterness, anger, loss, disillusionment, humiliation, failure. You can build relationships and friendships over the span of years and you can lose…
Read more »On the road again…
I think this is my last road trip on my current contract. And I have to admit that I’m burnt out. I need to find something new to do. Would really love to find a way back to teaching. Anyway, I’m currently in Duncan, BC. I’ve passed through before but I think I must have missed it somehow…probably because I…
Read more »Footprints on my heart…and my dining room table…and my coffee table
[Loki and Milo. All tuckered out] Loki and Milo are such sweethearts…except for all their bad habits of course. Milo, well, there’s that issue of peeing in the wrong place at seemingly random moments. I’m not sure if I felt better or worse when we took him in for his annual checkup and the vet said she has a cat…
Read more »Finding all the great little Mac Apps!
At least once a day I send a message (now using iChat rather than MSN!) to Kirk telling him that I love my Mac. Why? A number of other reasons: #1. It just works! #2. It’s not Windows! #3. The ton of free and really useful applications out there. For example:
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WOW! That was Amazing!!!
A year or so ago someone sent me an email with the most insane Christmas light display on a house and it was set to an amazing piece of music. After digging around a bit I finally found who it was and got the album. Trans Siberian Orchestra. I’d never heard of them before but what a great ….band?? I’m…
Read more »The New Face of the “Pen Pal”
In my last post I was grumbling about the nature of the internet leading to vitriol and general nastiness. True, I still feel that way, but at the other end of the spectrum I have to admit that I’ve actually met some very nice people in a way that I never thought would happen. Over the past 15 years on…
Read more »An anonymous face
Ever notice how an overwhelming number of blogs seem to be forums for vitriol and general nastiness? The internet holds a certain (somewhat false) aura of anonymity. For some reason, those deep dark resentments and other weird and wonderful things that we would never say to an other human face to face, the things we used to keep to ourselves…
Read more »Lunatic Fringe!
What a frustrating day. Pretty much everything went exactly opposite to plan today, although I love my Mac even more because my music drive died today but Time Machine had everything safely backed up and all I had to do was restore 30,000mp3 files! Piece of cake! On the other hand, a lunatic Realtor threatened to report me to the…
Read more »Another NextGen gallery test
Just testing out a plugin for adding photo galleries while on our trip…… these are some images from our 2005 trip. Click on the first image in the series to open the larger images in individual windows with caption details.
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