Monthly Archives: August 2008

As much as For Better or For Worse has been annoying me lately, today’s strip is really powerful – it’s the communion between a bride at the beginning of a joyful marriage (so Johnston tells us) and an old women … Continue reading →

My body is anything but subtle. Tomorrow will definitely be a rest day – I planned it anyway, but today’s erg split and the feeling of walking up to my fourth-floor office this morning made the need for one crystal … Continue reading →

We went back to right near last week’s beach hotel this past Saturday for paragliding. The plan was to see if we could start training to do it on our own. They have too many students for that and told … Continue reading →

A couple days ago, I learned that Denver Doug is gone. I wrote out aomse words in tribute but somehow they got lost before I posted them. I’m not really sorry he’s gone, in a way: I’ll miss him, many … Continue reading →

The beach trip was good – not great, but good. The hotel wasn’t the five-star resort it claimed, but I didn’t expect it to be. But it was clean and nice and comfortable, and if the food at the “Mediterranean” … Continue reading →

I said I was going to post duplicates of my writings elsewhere here, didn’t I? Yet the stuff on Avontuur is easy enough to access, for anyone who wants to read it (most recently: complaints about Olympic coverage on Taiwanese … Continue reading →

Not good. I began my day by knocking a full mug of tea onto my desk. Apparently enough of it hit my computer to kill it; it will be going to the shop to have the keyboard and motherboard replaced … Continue reading →

Readerware betrayed me! One of the things I use it for is to export the database onto my PDA so that while I’m in a bookstore I can look and see if I always have a book. This is particularly … Continue reading →

Note that a lot of the earrrings are’nt on earwires yet, just because I don’t have that many. If you look carefully you’ll see that in a couple places I’ve experimented with making my own (those are the ones where … Continue reading →