After yesterday, all I managed today was the weekly grocery shopping, a bit of furniture painting, and the roasting of the coffee (a Guatamala Huehuetenango Finca Reglaito, from Sweet Maria's). * * * Further good news, no caualties reported in the last week by DoD. Ciao!
Continue reading...I'd say "musical chairs", but a lot more than chairs are involved. Marcia's got some quilting work coming up that is approximately a billion times easier (using Top Gear maths, there) if she is able to use all the power of her fully operational Death Quilter. Errr, or something like that. But the only place we can do the full build out of her quilting frame is the library, because the other choices are someone's woodshop, and the living room. So, here's what the library looked like at 10:30 this morning. The blue chairs, the occasional table, and the bookcase…
Continue reading...Last night, we finished our celebration of Marcia's birthday (which was back on the 15th) with a viewing of the latest Bond flick: Skyfall. Good movie, excellent action, good pacing, and while it's a tad predictable, it almost has to be with a franchise as venerable as Bond. The rest of the weekend was pretty full, too: woodworking, company party, shopping, washing of cars ... a long list. * * * 33 days - that's our interval since the prior casualty announcement from DoD. Wow! Still, today we got word that Staff Sgt. Jonathan D. Davis, 34, of Kayenta, Arizona,…
Continue reading...So this happened, via the post today: This, I think, is the last post tagged "School" for a while. Just sayin' ...
Continue reading...“@TonikJDK: Fair warning. If I see someone wearing Google Glass I will run up and yell 'Safe Search off, horse porn!!'” 'nuff said. * * * “@tenderlove: I wish name tags were a hip thing. It would prevent many awkward situations.” There are so many ways to interpret this. My first reading was that he wants nametags on peoples hips, instead of the standard left-breast position. After all, that would prevent the awkward excuse, "No, really, I was just trying to read your nametag, ma'am!" Then I realized that he probably meant hip, as in cool. But really ... hip…
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