ginny on January 31st, 2004

Another couple of day’s worth of journal entries from the September trip have gone up. They take a lot of time to fool with – aside from typing the entries in pretty much as I wrote them, but without the bad handwriting. That’s only the beginning – then there’s choosing the pictures, messing with them [...]

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ginny on January 31st, 2004

AP Wire | 01/31/2004 | Strangers’ lives intersected Feb. 1 and are forever altered Ahhh, God. Anniversary tomorrow. Ahhh, dammit.

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ginny on January 31st, 2004

More freezing weather – it’s a bright day and we’re debating whether to go cross-country skiing or not. I’m holding out to tomorrow, when the temperature is supposed to climb up into the 20′s (Fahrenheit). Besides which, the snowbase is only about 4 inches, very light and powdery. Which means that it’s blown off anywhere [...]

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ginny on January 31st, 2004

Invision Power Board Database Error Ooops, looks like the Television Without Pity forums are hosed – at least this one is. Try again later. “We apologise for any inconvenience” I wonder if it’s virus related? DSLreports was down earlier too, but is back up now. Wonder what happens tomorrow on MyDoomsday? Virus Sighting – had [...]

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ginny on January 30th, 2004

I ran across something that reminded me of an excellent book that went around and around my circle of online friends about 5 years ago. It was The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence, by Gavin De Becker It was originally recommended to me by someone who wrote for a television [...]

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ginny on January 30th, 2004

A word to the Episcopal Church… from the Presiding Bishop. The Chicago Tribune(subscription) notes that the statement “ignored a challenge to the denomination’s leadership.” And about the Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes? – least said, soonest mended. And the “state of the parish?” Still looking for a new vicar/rector. Still not listed at [...]

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ginny on January 30th, 2004

I know the blog is messed up – something about the last post. Dammit, dammit, dammit. And by the way? -8 degrees below zero plus wind makes it -27 degrees below zero wind chill. That’s negative twenty-seven degees below zero. I’ve got layers on layers. I’m off to discover the Midwest Pole, wish me luck!

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ginny on January 29th, 2004

Well, rats. We picked up the phones tonight – Audiovox 8900s, to be exact. It turns out that these phones have really loud, non-changeable, non-customizable musical tones for startup and shutdown. To me, they’re annoying but something I could maybe ignore, but to David, they’re a dealbreaker. Which is too bad, because otherwise they seem [...]

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ginny on January 29th, 2004

GREAT APE PRESS – simian poets need apples and cats, not typewriters Steve sent this in retaliation for my sending him a link to the Sidetalkin’ site. rock. sit rock. want apple. janet give apple. give apple janet. want apple. rock. want apple. baltar apple. want apple. janet give apple baltar. Dammit, these monkeys are [...]

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ginny on January 29th, 2004

Steve called to tempt us: the nearby Verizon store had some new cell phones and our wireless contracts were up, or nearly up. So we made the rendezvous at the phone store, after stopping off at a huge new tile store and thinking evil thoughts about a future DIY tiled backsplash project. Evil! Evil! Projects [...]

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