And here's the lucky dog! Oh, wait, that's a picture of Ella.
SFO is a T-Mobile wi-fi hotspot. Hi! I estimate I'm now about six and a half hours from home, hugs, and puppy licks.
It's not like I have insomnia or anything, but I'm pretty sleepy and am just trying to keep my eyes open until my flight boards in an hour or so. I'm sitting in the departure lounge at Sea-Tac, empty Starbucks cafe latte (grande)
No one who posts here does this, but all you other folks, try to remember that it's "bated breath," not "baited breath." "To bate" is a transitive verb meaning to reduce the force or intensity of something. Thus, when you have bated
In happier news, █████ has met a happy, house-trained, six-month-old soft-coated wheaten terrier puppy in the suburbs of Chicago and will in all likelihood be bringing her home to Queens at the end of the week. Her current humans are sad to give her up because she&
My sister forwards this story from KSL-TV in Salt Lake City: Utah Soldiers Likely Will Stay Longer in IraqThe 1457th Engineering Battalion stationed at Baghdad Airport was given word last week they'd be coming home. Then just yesterday plans changed, and now another extention [sic] is in
I've recently finished serving, together with Scott Edelman and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, as a juror in the SF/fantasy category of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. It was my second year, and it was very fun and rewarding, as before. The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers
The book I'm reading now is Education of a Felon, the memoir by Edward Bunker. It's a compelling account of the young criminal life in the L.A. of the '50s and '60s, and of life in prisons like San Quentin and Folsom. I&
Can't seem to find the answer to this in a quick web search. What is the number of spherical degrees in a perfect sphere? For some reason, I have the idea that it's not 360.
I received email from out of the blue last night from a woman I knew from 17 years ago on my mission. She was a sister missionary, and I was her district leader. She wrote simply to chew me out for having thrown away everything I used to preach so
From ❦curmudgeon: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. Wilde scuffed the surface of the canal-bank path—it had changed from trodden dust to a
Word on the family grapevine says my brother is in Kuwait on the first stage of his trip home from Iraq. Thank goodness. Now if only all the rest of the troops could come home.
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