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digressions and busy-ness
Digression the first: There is something bizarre in CNN reporting that RUssia is using inflatable tanks in order to give the impression of greater military strength than the actuality. Churchill didn’t know how good he had it in those pre-CNN days when England used the same tactic. (OK, Chuurchill didn’t have it good at all [...]
scary stuff
Yesterday I wrote about annoying: today I have scary. Scary thing the first: I just got an email from the Democratic Party of Oregon. How do they even know? We just bought the house this month. Further, I think I was registered as an Independent when we last lived in the US; I’m registered with [...]
three annoyances and one discovery to make it all better
Rather annoying: a couple of poems I submitted to a new venue managed to get themselves lost, and there was no way for me to know that before learning that the lineup for the first issue was closed. To be clear, I’m not annoyed at the editor (who searched her mailbox promptly as soon as [...]
more fun with clothing (aka dressing in costumes isn’t necessarily bad, if you’re stealthy about it)
What I like about layering clothing is the increased potential for stealth superhero outifts. Mostly that’s about the leggings, as well as the increased potential that the lowest layer of my top (not including bra) is a knit material that gives me a lot of freedom of motion. Not that I actually need much freedom [...]
one fish, two fish, red fish, little tiny fish
As bloggers go, I am a very small fish – I hardly ever get much attention, rarely more than a couple of comments per post. In general I don’t mind; it means that people respond when they’re been really interested in or touched by something I’ve said and not to just join a pile-on, and [...]
layers
I think I finally have this layering thing more or less down. Because it’s been cool either inside my office or outside, most of my recent outfits have involved a minimum of three pieces (not including shoes, socks, or underwear). What has been difficult is to keep wearing summer clothing when it’s dreary out, but [...]
manifesto
Oursin asks, “Is it better to have massive ambitions, and fail, or to have modest aims, and succeed?” My answer to that is enough of a “this, I believe” statement that I’m copying it here. In my opinion, it is better to have massive ambitions, and to break down the steps to achieve them into [...]
almost here…
I should achieve Tedness any second now. Well, any time in the next hour and a half, depending on time to pick up suitcase, get car, and drive from Amsterdam. Unfortunately, from conversations over the last few days it sounds like he’s coming down with something, which may preclude snuggling (and which won’t have contributed [...]
well, that was about the rudest thing I’ve ever seen…
My little local grocery was crowded this evening, when I went to try to prepare for Ted’s visit. Last week was orientation for the foreign students at the local university, and now the Dutch students are trickling back. The store itself wasn’t too badly crowded, but the lines at the register were some of the [...]
y’all owe me thanks for this one
When I got home today, at the risk of being late for rowing, I did something I should have done long ago: I went digging in my files and found that I did bring the file of Cool Stuff and accolades I used to keep at work, from back in the day when, if you [...]