Author Archives: Gwaetgar

Gakked from dakiwiboid:

Gakked from anderyn, who has now kept me up way too late! 🙂

Okay. When a comic strip makes me laugh this hard, I just have to share. I read it whilst catching up with almost two full weeks of Boston Globe’s, but I found it online. This is one of my favorite … Continue reading →

Gakked from annef but, like her, I’m not tagging anyone in particular. If you read this, consider yourself tagged! 🙂 Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need … Continue reading →

Astronaut sets women’s spacewalk record You go, Sunita! It’s just about cold enough here to freeze ammonia on contact. Right now it’s 18° F out (that’s -8° C) with a wind of about 23 mph (37 kph) roaring through the … Continue reading →

…when you’ve been sitting at your computer for hours right next to two unshaded windows, and you only realize that it’s snowing outside when you look at the local weather online and read that it says so. (In my pitiful … Continue reading →

I’ve taken this before, but I think my answers were different this time…I answered truthfully the way I feel at the moment. Gakked from musiquephan:

Molly Ivins passed away today from cancer. I’m really going to miss her columns. So is my dad, who is one of her greatest fans. Progressives–and women–have lost one of their most witty, intelligent, knowledgable and uncompromising voices today. I … Continue reading →

I was watching live when Barbaro won the Kentucky Derby last May. I was at work that afternoon, but one of the shelter guests and I watched the race on TV. A couple of weeks later when the Preakness was … Continue reading →

Here’s my riff (not joking) on the borderline quiz. I actually test out rather high on a different personality disorder, but here’s my real answers to the questions for this one: You are afraid of being abandoned. Not in the … Continue reading →