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Following Garic's lead. I've won the prediction contest (with my friends) six years in a row, but I don't feel too confident tonight (i've only seen a couple of the movies). Will update later with hopw I actually did. I…
Per eFairy's request, here's Mack's Orange Julius recipe: 6 oz. frozen orange juice concentrate 1/4-1/2 cup sugar (depending on taste) 1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup cold water 10 ice cubes Mix all ingredients in blender. Perso…
I'm so lazy. I went to Mack's game, came home and let her make me Orange Julius and cheese toast (recipes she had from cooking class). It took approximately 300 hours for her to accomplish this, while rain clouds gat…
Office Confidential in Metaphor Example With unprecedented grace, this classic legend, set in the fictional country of Elbonia, depicts companions, Andre Agassi (Johnny Depp) and Office Confidential (Jodie F…
Good Morning. It looks there's potential for a gorgeous day in Portland. The sun is out, but there are also high clouds that look roughly like flannel sheets. They don't look like rain clouds, but really, in this cit…
UPDATED to answer yardenxanthe's excellent question. Good morning. Alex is sick today, so I'm staying home. Sometimes she can stay home by herself, but her fever was about 103, so I'm going to stay with her. It's hard …
Time for a bit more about Mr. S, inspired by yardenxanthe. This isn't so much a specific incident as it is just one of his odd traits. The topic: garbage. He has an odd relationship with garbage. First, t…
This will be a very quick entry as I have to leave for work: (more later) I just want to profess my love for Amazon.com yet again. There was some unpleasantness a year or so ago, when I ordered a stack of books, but rea…
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Hi, kids. Another full day. Alex got up early to go to church with a friend, and I had to take her to Walgreen's to get a birthday present for another friend whose party she was going to after church. Mack and I…
A very busy Saturday. It started with basketball games this morning at 9 and 10. Mackenzie's team was minus their best player, and they only had 6 people today, so they got pretty tired and the other team, which wasn…
Cool Stuff I've Found on the Web Today's link: The Visual Thesaurus This one is really cool: type in a word, click "look it up," and you get an "interactive map" of the word and related words. Click on a related word …
Mr. S has created a Wall of Shame in the office. He puts all my mistakes up there. He started it on Christmas Eve, when he put up one mistake--a letter I sent out that didn't have the date on it (oops). I didn't …
Cool Stuff I've Found on the Web Furl I was dissatisfied with yesterday's entry, so thought I'd try to find a better, similar link. Furl is way better than Visual Marks. I'm going to let Furl (short for F…
Cool Stuff I've Found on the Web Today's Link: Visual Marks Visual Marks (sorry, Mac & Linux users, this one is Windows only, I think) allows you to store your bookmarks using color coding and screenshots. I have …
Cool Stuff I've Found on the Web Today's link: zefrank.com I really can't describe this site, but I believe it's someone's personal website and it's fantastic. It takes a long time to visit each of the links on the fr…
I didn't feel well yesterday and it had nothing to do with the margaritas I drank the night before. I didn't get much sleep on Friday night and it seemed to really cause problems for me yesterday, and of course I had 1,0…
Cool Stuff I've Found on the Web Today's link: Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg has rounded up a huge number of public domain books and made them free to download as e-books. Have you always wanted to read The Adv…
Cool Stuff I've Found on the Web Today's link: Women of Our Time This site is beautifully put-together and features photos of 20th century women from the (U. S.) Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. In the gallery, …
Mr. S decided today that he wants to have footers on all our documents. OK, fine. He didn't want footers before because he thinks they clutter up the page. All right, whatever. So, Mr. S, Joe and I had a conference c…
Cool Stuff I've Found on the Web Today's link: Post-It* Theater Here's a collection of little flipbook movies, hand-drawn on Post-It* Notes and scanned. There's no extra computer animation. They haven't updat…
No run for me this morning. I woke up at around 4 a.m. with a terrible headache and an upset stomach. I normally don't like to take anything for a headache, but I practically ran for the Excedrin Migraine this morning. S…
Cool Stuff I've Found on the Web Today's link: Kiss This Guy This is an "archive of misheard lyrics," arranged by song or by artist, or you can just view them at random. When I first found this site, I sta…
Cool Stuff I've Found on the Web Today's link: FitDay FitDay is the coolest! It's a food journal, calorie counter, exercise log, weight loss tracker, and nutrition facts book all in one. You have to register, but it's…
I went for another run this morning, this time to the bottom of the very steep hill we live on and back up. It wasn't a long run (20 minutes, maybe), but definitely a hard one. I start a new tennis class next week. I…
Cool Stuff I've Found on the Web: An Oddyssey Through my Bookmarks (and Beyond!) I'm starting a new feature on this blog called Cool Stuff I've Found on the Web. I'll post a new link (almost) daily, and try to stick …
Went for a run this morning. I generally avoid running and opt for an elliptical machine at the gym because of the impact on my knees. I've been thinking about tennis, though, and realized that a lot of the women my age …
Busy day today. I fell asleep SO early last night, right after a great episode of Joan of Arcadia about finding your voice. Was up early this morning for basketball games and pictures (I'll have to tell y'all about some …
I don't know what's got me in this stupid weepy mood today. Proceed with caution. When Alex had her medical testing last week, it got me thinking about a lot of things, like what I would do if it turned out she was re…
Driving Mr. S The only thing worse than driving Mr. S is having Mr. S drive you. Well, that, and actually, having a meal with Mr. S is pretty awful, too. He orders everything special, badgers the waiters, and spreads…
I spent a good bit of yesterday trying to get Alex's test results from her blood draw on Saturday. She's all right, no arthritis or cancer or anything. She apparently had high levels of something indicating strep, which…
Just a quick entry because I have to get ready for work. The Super Bowl turned out to be a pretty good game. I don't really have a football team that I love the way I love the Red Sox in baseball, and I didn't have a…
Well, this is fun, courtesy of eFairy and tomsaaristo: the states I've visited are in red. Most of these were seen from the passenger side of my grandmother's red Cadillac. That woman drove like a bat outta hell, but man…