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  • Site inactive I will out of town until July 8, and will not be posting until then. Have a good holiday!

  • The real me I've changed my profile pic to one my daughter took yesterday with our new $39 digital camera. It isn't a great picture by any measure, but it's real. I really look like this now. I'm not glamorous. I ne…

  • Defamation by omission - fine xanga technique This tip has been submitted by GrayGodbey: want to make someone look really bad? Leave zero eprops but no comment. Everyone else who follows will automatically assume that…

  • Another concert Last night I saw John Waite (remember The Babies?). Peter Frampton, and Journey in concert. It was a great show, but I must say I'm surprised Peter Frampton has to be anyone's opening act. He plays jus…

  • I just bought a new digital camera, Poloroid I-zone digital combo. You may recall that I-zone cameras take this instant sticker photos, a very silly function IMHO. This one fuses an I-zone camera with a digital camer…

  • Opinions - mine aren't welcome Hoo boy! Did I open a bag of worms! Where do I start? Dreadpirate somehow thinks I'm impuning freedom of speech by being insulted when blogs misprepresent me. I never said that they co…

  • Hmmmph! I have noticed a few people who have recently felt the need to review the people who read their site. This is very nice in principle but pretty ugly in practice, when it is made obvious that the person doing th…

  • Jimbo Freddybrakestad asked me about my husband, so this blog is all about Jim. Freddy asked if Jim is big, and I will have to say that he is bigger than average, being 6' 1" and 195 pounds. He is pretty fit, too, get…

  • Sad day for romance This morning my daughter asked when my husband would have duty again. She loves it when he has the duty, part of his responsibities is to evaluate the quality of the food in the mess hall, and we ta…

  • In the swim What is the most boring sport to watch? For a long time, I thought it was baseball. The players did an awful lot of standing still, in my opinion, and I was never motivated to learn the stats that made it …

  • Squonking - not in my bed Ralf would like us to invent a lewd meaning for squonking, but I, being the dictionary freak that I am, have to squelch that plan. Squonk already has a meaning, it is a sound most commonly mad…

  • Useless vocabulary I was reading HerbieTheElf's weblog and came across 3 words that I didn't know. As I've mentioned before, I hate not knowing what words mean, and I certainly wasn't going to stoop to begging Herbie f…

  • What are you selling? This morning I pulled a flyer off the door. It was done on lavender paper, in an italicized font. It read (direct quote, with my comments in brackets and personal info left out): "Need a night o…

  • Pilfered muse I was struck by this muse, only it wasn't my muse, it was Sharon's. Sharon has been writing this story, and all of a sudden, I was struck by the desire to write about the characters in her story. I was …

  • Twelve It is weird living with a 12 year old. Sometimes he is so grown up and sometimes he is such a kid. This week, two blocks from our house, they are holding a Cub Scout day camp. I used to force Gordon to go when…

  • Slanted survey Okay, so I had a little survey question, and received very few responses, but the responses were very nearly the same. From this, I must deduce that people who have hangups about bloody, messy sex also h…

  • Hot topics If you ever find yourself on the beach with a preschooler, you may find yourself struggling to maintain a conversation. Here are some questions that worked well for me today: Why does the sun go behind t…

  • Another sex survey Okay, here's the situation. Heterosexual couple in the mood for love, and the female in this couple is having her period. If it were you, would you be thinking: a) Yuck. I can wait few days. b) O…

  • Same venue, different concert Last night My husband and I went to another concert at the Amphitheater (yes, two nights in a row for me). The band? Chicago. It reminds me of the saying that the reason we have sorrow i…

  • Feeling Used Tonight I took three girls to the Teenapalooza performance at the Amphitheater in Virginia Beach. Two of them had never been to a concert before, and had very high expectations. After tonight, I will be …

  • The Gym (Looks part 2) One of the advantages of summer is that Gordon is home to babysit during the day (he doesn't mind, as long as he can get on the computer), and one of the advantages of living on a military install…

  • Teenapalooza - Virginia Beach (singing) nanny nanny boo boo, I have tickets to Teenapalooza and you-ou do-on't (yeah, I'm so mature) My Girl Scout troop got tickets, and somebody has to drive Do you really think anyo…

  • Not Looks part 2, but Star Trek Uniforms I was looking through my photo album to find a picture of my husband before we got married, to show to sebastian that I really do not care much about looks (he was a very goofy-l…

  • Looks - a rant What is so important about looks? Why does it matter if someone is pretty or handsome or dog-faced or piebald? If you looked at two women's genitals, could you tell which one had the pretty face and whi…

  • Over the bridge One of the more important ceremonies in Scouting is the bridging ceremony. This marks the passage from one level of Scouting to another, and both boys and girls in many countries have a bridging ceremon…

  • Guilt-ridden? My neighbor down the street was very unhappy today. Her husband just got back last night after being gone for three weeks, and they got into a fight, so he spent the night somewhere else last night, and h…

  • Flavor of the day - Filipino (yum!) For virgilmvx - I never saw a Filipino until I went into the Navy 16 years ago. Apparently, for a certain period of history, joining the US Navy was a ticket out of the poverty and r…

  • Great way to start the day I was awakened this morning by my husband reporting that I had left the van windows wide open last night and a thunderstorm had blown through, soaking my entire front seat. I guess this means…

  • Lumpia Yesterday I spent a couple of hours making lumpia for a small party I was attending. This was tragic for Gordon, who loves lumpia and realized he wasn’t going to get any. We were both pretty sure that none of …

  • Jesse This is a picture of my oldest son, Jesse, taken at his prom. (6 foot 3, 220 lbs) There is something strangely amiss about this picture - there is no girl in it. I know he took a girl to the prom. I've seen p…

  • This is a Barbie? I was surfing the web, looking for directions to make dolls as a project for my troop, and I found this site. Ninimomo takes your average Barbie doll off the shelf, meticulaously creates an original…

  • Ralf saves the day It occurs to me that many conversations between men and women follow this model: The woman complains about a problem, the man offers a solution, she gives reasons why the solution won't work, he offe…

  • Juliet admits to being a lesbian (not what it sounds like) When I was growing up, I was pretty proud of my vocabulary. My mother was a crossword puzzle fanatic, and would hand me the easy ones that weren't challenging …

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