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I MISSED Shallowz's Birthday!
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I know.
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I feel so awful.
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Lost track of time...
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Well, I've been busy.
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I know, I know. I should be:
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Please FORGIVE me!
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I gotta go get something...
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Hope it was super, great, wonderful, special, lovely and all the rest of those adjectives, hee!!


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LJ, long time no see! A most excellent adventure was had in the Grand Canyon:
T, the day before descent, contemplating...always contemplating.

Mules ahoy! Just not for us. South Rim trail, lookin' down.

Total poser

Going across the Colorado R.

Home Sweet Home

Sunrise in the Canyon, from the bottom

Happened to see these guys over at Zion on the way home, right by the entrance:




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I hadn't thought much about Memorial Day this year, just too busy I guess. Until my mom called (we live in the same state, but a few hours hours apart) and said the cemetary was taken care of. I knew what she meant: the area around my father's grave stone was mowed and flowers placed, along with the small flag and medallion signifying military service. 

My father, "Pop" to us kids, spent 25 years in the Army and saw his way through 2 wars on several different continents. He was able to return home, but many of his friends and comrades did not. A lesson that wasn't lost to me as I made my own way through military service in the medical field.

So in the midst of family gatherings and fun in the sun, let's not forget those who gave their lives for our country....either past or present. 

Here's Pop. He's the one in the middle of the 2 other officers in trenchcoats. He spent considerable time as a tank commander in his career, among other things. Happy Memorial Day!


Um....guh.

Apr. 12th, 2011 04:16 pm
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Found on tumblr, credit to: noplace2hide



But srsly, is this dude for real? He makes my teeth sweat.


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Not really a spam, but these are two of the best images I've seen from PaleyFest. Wowza.  

           
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Question: What is the one thing I did not need going back to work after a week off?

Ding, ding! Don Pardo! Tell' er what she's won! Well Alex, she's won a week's worth of lost e-mails, bolloxed suspenses and missing pst folders!



IT Guy: Wellllll, it looks like what you have is some server migration problems. We've been getting these a lot.
Me: Will I recover my e-mails?
IT Guy: Have they come back yet?
Me: No.
IT Guy: Welllllll, it's not looking real good then.
Me:





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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. 
Martin Luther King, Jr.

One of my favorite quotes. I think it's the idea that we harbor the capability to make a decision, despite any and all circumstances, whether to hate or love. The ball is in our court, so to speak....   


Really?

Jan. 6th, 2011 09:35 pm
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 "All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure."

Found this in the news today:

Twain scholar Alan Gribben, who is working with NewSouth Books in Alabama to publish a combined volume of the books, said the N-word appears 219 times in "Huck Finn" and four times in "Tom Sawyer." He said the word puts the books in danger of joining the list of literary classics that Twain once humorously defined as those "which people praise and don't read."

"It's such a shame that one word should be a barrier between a marvelous reading experience and a lot of readers," Gribben said.

Yet Twain was particular about his words. His letter in 1888 about the right word and the almost right one was "the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."

Another Twain scholar, Professor Stephen Railton at the University of Virginia, said Gribben is well respected, but called the new version "a terrible idea."

The language depicts America's past, Railton said, and the revised book was not being true to the period in which Twain was writing.

~~Why would anyone take an author’s book(s) and sanitize them for today’s world? I don’t buy Gribben’s thoughts that the “N” word would be a barrier to the reader. Really?  Gribben obviously has never listened to 50 Cent, or Busta Rhyme or even Eminem. The word is already out there. But to sanitize an author’s work because it contains the same words, set in a historical frame of reference? What’s next? Book burning?

Thanks Professor Gribben, but I’d like to make my own choices about what I want to read, N-words or not. Leave my books alone. Especially my Mark Twain.~~ 

 
 

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The scenario: Jogging down a favorite path, trees are swaying in the warm breeze (hey, it's Texas in January, after all). Two young ladies, walking abreast, are comin' towards me. I see them, they see me: direct eye contact. Side by side they keep comin' taking up the entire path.

So: Am I supposed to jump off the path into the ditch/mud/rocks (name yer poison) to let them pass?
 
Common courtesy would say one of them would drop back behind the other to let me (or someone else) pass. But instead, I get the old stink-eye and few rich words because I crowded them. Sheesh. Next time I take my cattle prod *grumble, grumble*.   
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Heh. Our girl is growing up. And here I thought she wouldn't make it past 6 months after chewing up the kitchen baseboard--good times. 
Tried to find a tiara for her, but she wouldn't have it. She's not a girly-girl. Besides, it's a little difficult with the ears and whatnot.
Anyhoo, from puppy to adolescent, in 2 easy pics. Here ya go:


                                                  

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Or...TAP. Have been tapping faster than Gene-freaking-Kelly for the last month, but this is the second step in the lengthy process to the big 'R', retirement. So, aside from learning that perhaps the clothes one wears to an 'every day' job should be coordinated and that perhaps one should monitor speech for both content and  acronym-usage, the facilitator gave use this bit of advice: "It'll get easier as time goes on."

But I guess the main thing for me is contemplating a total career and profession change after 22 years of doing the same thing (or versions of it). I think Groucho sums it up about right: 

    "Hmmmmmm......"
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Mower: 2; Sprinkler heads: 0

I think perhaps I need to start mowing on Saturdays again instead of after work.......

Oil Spill

Jun. 16th, 2010 06:39 pm
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What a travesty.

And  a very long term one at that.

Anyone for alternative sources of fuel? Or maybe just a ban on big companies who haven't thought out that 'what if' scenario? Or maybe we need to focus on the people who hired them in the first place--yikes. 

 (Pelican covered in oil from the Gulf)



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