Over the turnpike, backed up from the tolls, To Grandmother’s house we go. The GPS knows the way to navigate the SUV Through the globally warming drizzle… That’s as far as I got. Anyone want to collaborate on it, or is it too sad?
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Much better
After a day on penicillin, my toothache is much better. It’s good enough that it doesn’t bother me at all when I’m not eating, but bad enough when I’m chewing that a root canal is going to be worth it. Meanwhile, we played Settlers of Catan with Charley, Nicole, Anne, and Matt. Matt clobbered the …
Malaise
I had something of a toothache starting in the middle of last night, when I woke up and wasn’t sure I’d be able to get back to sleep. It was worse in the morning. I was able to get my dentist to see me in the afternoon. It looks as though — because I’ve made …
Just keeping up
I got home a little late from work because I actually got something accomplished that needed finishing tonight so it has a chance of getting into the system tomorrow. I was too busy indexing stamp mounts tonight to have time to write an entry worthy of the name “entry.” Over and out —
Leonid meteors, not
On Friday night we sat outside for a while around midnight hoping to see some meteors from the Leonid meteor shower. We did see two or three meteors in ten or fifteen minutes, but I didn’t think they were coming from Leo at all. On Saturday night, at 11:45, which was supposed to be the …
Not a partridge in a pear tree
We were sitting in the kitchen in Casco trying to think what we needed to get for Thanksgiving dinner (things like enough table space, serving utensils,…) when I noticed some motion in the crabapple tree. It was a grouse, standing on a branch, eating crabapples! That’s three grouse sightings from the house by now. I …
In defense of Kazakhstan
With the talk about Borat, I need to say that the only person I know I’ve met from Kazakhstan isn’t like him. It was a woman sitting next to me on the plane home from London in 1999. Here‘s her picture and what I wrote then. And that’s not really a good picture; she was …
Avatars
I was playing with avatars.yahoo.com for a while, after seeing pictures on several blogs. It’s a great way to waste a half hour or hour. I like the wide selection of backgrounds that can be combined with wildly inappropriate people and accessories, like raking leaves on the moon.
48 Things You Could Care Less About
I think in general these list blog memes are only interesting if the writer takes the questions as jumping off points and writes at least a short paragraph about them. I mean, 48 yes or nos? or even a short phrase? Why bother. Except that some have to be short. All answers valid for when …
Pictorial update
Here are some pictures from the weekend ready to show. 1. FO, or it will be if the ends get woven in, herringbone knit shawl from Fryeburg fair yarn. I need to get a closeup so you can see the herringbone pattern: 2. Progress on first sleeve of Matt’s sweater. The picture doesn’t show the …