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July 20, 2009 06:07 PM EDT --
For ty years ago? I was six, we had only shortly before moved into this house in this neighborhood. I was going to start second grade at a new school in a couple of months - strangely enough, at the one . . .
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July 16, 2009 03:34 PM EDT --
In anticipation of the upcoming 40th anniversay of the first moon landing, I read about this event the night before in a blog - Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter, Gemini and Apollo astronaut Thomas . . .
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May 28, 2009 01:46 PM EDT --
If you see this through Comment Speedway or ViewMasters - I ask that you please don't leave a generic comment. While normally I don't mind "Thanks for sharing," I'd really like a little more feedback . . .
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May 22, 2009 10:36 PM EDT --
Grrr. I should know better than try to post something directly without saving it somewhere else first. " Oops, an error has occurred, would you like to go back to the previous page, where Gather has eaten . . .
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March 28, 2009 05:42 PM EDT --
(Warning - some sadness ahead...)
(To the tune of My Grandfather's Clock - words by Garrison Kiellor)
My grandmother's cat was too big for the shelf So he slept every night in a bed . . .
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March 19, 2009 08:54 PM EDT --
I had been going to post to an iPod community I belong about how iTunes was soooo slooooow, slower than molasses in January in a blizzard on Pluto, and what could I do about it. My god, sometimes . . .
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March 18, 2009 09:19 PM EDT --
In case you missed it Monday, Neil Gaiman was talking about The Graveyard Book on the Colbert Report.
Click for video (tried to embed, but I guess Gather doesn't like Comedy Central . . .
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January 10, 2009 05:52 PM EST --
Dream:
We were all in the park at the end of my street, flying kites, late in the afternoon (note: in real life, this park is not all that great a place to fly kites; there are too many trees, . . .
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January 10, 2009 05:31 PM EST --
Nifty! Forwarded by a co-worker.
The brownsnout spookfish has been known for 120 years, but no live specimen had ever been captured.
Last year, one was caught off Tonga, by scientists from Tuebingen . . .
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November 23, 2008 10:26 PM EST --
Of course, most scientists are in term of their projects, which take on life as their children.
But some biologists especially, share a commonality with parents of very young children. Pre-potty-training . . .
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November 12, 2008 02:05 AM EST --
My uncle and dad ...
This was taken in 1942 - my father, on the right, quit high school to join the Navy after Pearl Harbor. He was seventeen. My uncle John, two years older, was . . .
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October 28, 2008 07:36 PM EDT --
(Reposting as this is something put up shortly after I joined two years ago - but it's that time of year, when it comes to mind...)
October is kind of a bittersweet month for . . .
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September 30, 2008 08:23 PM EDT --
(Warning - tea purists may be offended...)
Tea at Home:
Fill kettle with filtered water. Set to boil.
After water is boiling, add some to teapot to warm . . .
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September 16, 2008 05:40 PM EDT --
I drove in to work today (school starting and getting the kids ready in the morning this week has thrown me off my bus schedule), and listened to Kevin & Bean on the Los Angeles area radio station . . .
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September 04, 2008 05:52 PM EDT --
This past August, Runsamuck and I decided to take the kids on their long overdue first real camping trip. Granted, the fry have been tagging along with their grandmother for a number of years. . . .
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September 01, 2008 07:24 PM EDT --
Well, as I said once before, I don't dive anymore, but one of my coworkers did the other day. She gave me permission to put up some of the photos she took.
This one was actually found in . . .
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September 01, 2008 01:23 PM EDT --
I know my birthday is posted over there on the left; I don't try to hide how old I am. Nevertheless, occasionally I feel my age as much as anybody, so would it be so terribly much to ask to not . . .
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August 31, 2008 01:55 AM EDT --
Pigeons have never really been invisible to me, nor do I hate them, although I may have been guilty of referring to them as "flying rats" on occasion (but then, I like rats, at least the ones . . .
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August 26, 2008 07:51 PM EDT --
One of my family's favorite places to go on a weekend or holiday is the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA. My husband's grandmother kindly gives us annual passes as Christmas presents, . . .
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August 25, 2008 01:31 PM EDT --
I've been wanting to visit Rancho Los Alamitos Historical Ranch and Gardens for a long time. It's kind of one of those out of sight, out of mind things because, although it's . . .
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