Monthly Archives: March 2007

I just need to rant. I’m not feeling quite as bad as a couple of days ago (“bad” = depressed, isolated, totally unsupported, like no one cared about what I was doing…etc etc etc self-pitying whine ad nauseum…), because my … Continue reading →

Okay…this one is just TOO funny not to share. ACTUAL SPAM HEADER World Wide Lootery Agent I’ll just bet they are!

I have a USGS feed on my “My Yahoo” pages for earthquakes around the globe–it’s kind of interesting to watch where they’re occurring. Today at 11:55am EDT, there was a magnitude 2.7 earthquake…in New Hampshire! Near Laconia, about 50 miles … Continue reading →

San Francisco columnist Mark Morford uses as a step-off for today’s rant, a news item that you’ll have to read about to believe. Sheesh. Do Evil CEO’s sleep at night?

My first attempt at making home-made crackers was semi-successful. They’re certainly edible, but I need to tweak my technique a bit more. I found a recipe on a site with the amusing name of BellyBytes.com. It wasn’t the ingredients that … Continue reading →

Dublin throws diverse St. Patrick’s Day parade

I don’t know what our “official” measurement is, but I went out with a yardstick and measured 10 inches (25 cm) in the front yard, 11.5 inches (29 cm) in the back. The top two inches of that is sleet … Continue reading →

Nuggets found whilst trying to pull together yet another, particularly recalcitrant, church service for this coming Sunday: “Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” – Susan Ertz “Life is … Continue reading →

Excellent, sympathetic and accurate article about Wicca, and the Army chaplain who was removed from Iraq and the chaplain corps by the Army when he attempted to change from Pentacostal Christian to Wiccan. Chaplain’s faith in crisis What’s that they … Continue reading →

A minor thing, to be sure…but among the very last bits I wanted for the final edit was some fact-checking on actual weather conditions for the time and place (southeastern Massachusetts, April-August 2004, to be precise). I have been going … Continue reading →