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Saturday's expedition 5 Aug 2013 | 04:57 am
I went on a shooting expedition Saturday (picture-shooting, that is), and this was my first stop: a rock waterfall at the Buddy Holly Recreation Area. It meanders down several levels on both sides of ...
Playing with the new camera 28 Jul 2013 | 05:37 am
These are some of the first pix out of my new-to-me Nikon D3100. It almost looks like I know what I'm doing, doesn't it? (Click to biggify.) Some of the flowers on the Dallas Red crepe myrtles in our...
Hmmm... 21 Jul 2013 | 07:10 am
Can I do this thing? I mean, without throwing up or stroking out?
It helps to have a goal 16 Jul 2013 | 03:17 am
Taking a brief break in the workday to say that my attitude is looking up a little. I now have A Goal, to wit: a driving vacation in New Mexico, all to myself, during the first full week of October. I...
Rant mode on 17 May 2013 | 10:18 pm
OK, so I've been in my cubicle for a month now. Time for a progress report. I sent the following (mostly verbatim) email to my boss this morning. I know he can’t do anything about the cubicle situatio...
Catching up and moving out 17 Mar 2013 | 11:12 pm
Work has been kinda nuts the past two months with several get-it-done-yesterday-or-people-will-die projects, changing Production procedures, and the stress of the impending move from our current built...
Big Boy 22 Jan 2013 | 11:18 pm
We never had any nibbles for Big Boy--seems like everyone already has a houseful--so we had the city Animal Services people pick him up today. The guy who picked him up swore up & down they'd try to f...
Cat Needs Home! 14 Jan 2013 | 11:28 pm
This big, beautiful cat has been hanging around our house for a while now and really needs a home. Unfortunately, as much as I would love to adopt him, I can’t do it because Sister A. has been sick a...
While visions of cubicles danced in their heads... 1 Jan 2013 | 05:34 am
If you currently work in a cube farm, or if you have no set place of work at all (or, indeed, no job at the moment), you will be perfectly right to withhold any and all sympathy for my impending "plig...
White Christmas 26 Dec 2012 | 01:50 am
We don't often have a white Christmas, and with the persistent drought this year, I sure didn't expect one... but we got one! Below left is the backyard from the French doors, and right is the front y...
