Couch Baron and I agree to go to the party together, and about thirty seconds after he picks me up, I say this to him: “When it is 1:00 in the morning and I am cursing myself for wearing these shoes, you should feel free to remind me of this moment, which was my opportunity to go back to the hotel room and put on the perfectly sensible pair of black pumps that are under the edge of the bed right now.” “Got it,” he says. It’s been a while since I checked, but Miss Alli posted a recap of…
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LONDON (Reuters) – Help is at hand for foreign doctors working in Yorkshire whose patients complain of sore “lugholes” or say they’re feeling “jiggered” and can’t stop “gipping”. Health officials in Doncaster, South Yorkshire have compiled a guide of local dialect and slang to help a group of seven Austrian doctors — all fluent English speakers — better understand their sometimes thickly accented patients. I miss Yorkshire. I loved hearing the local dialect when we were there last year. The last entry in my travel journal is staring me in the face from last year – literally propped up in…
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In the absence of Rance, who is either off being a fabbleous movie sleb or starting fall semester after moving out of his parents’ basement, his readers have been writing a round-robin mystery story. This has been going on for about a month now, with submissions going up about every other day – sometimes, every day. It’s very organized, and there’s a list of people, so you know when you’re “on deck.” Also, when you’re writing your submission, you get an advance copy of the previous one, which doesn’t get posted until you submit your own. It seems to be…
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Saturday we drove around more or less at random, first south, then north to Volo Bog. It turned out to be a good decision to get there so late – the light was much better. my husband David’s photos look a lot better, he’s got the better camera. For a while. Whee! It was a nice time, and in spite of all the cars in the lot and people who seemed to be arriving, we had the whole trail to ourselves except for the first 200 yards or so. At one point, we stopped at the duck blind and settled…
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Hey! Guess what happened next? Yep, I was upstairs talking on the phone while standing on the stairs between the kitchen and the family room, and I was stupidly wearing some clog-like leather shoes with sticky soles. I was sideways and started to slip off the tread, but the shoe stuck in place and I rolled over my left foot and hit the floor with a very solid thumping sound. Stupid me, David was frantically asking if I was hurt, and I’m all like “The phone! Get the phone! I was talking to Chris!” because I was in the process…
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It’s October – that means that the time of “Tacky Seasonal Decorations” is upon us. This year, the Big House O’ Inflatables has added to their Hallowe’en collection by adding a big scary lawn spider and a giant Homer Simpson wearing a skeleton costume. I was on my way home after church, feeling a bit low and anxious but hopeful (more on that later) but felt much cheered and uplifted after seeing the inspirational sight of a 12 foot Homer, not to mention a spider big enough to be Shelob‘s stunt double. Next month, of course, the Harvest Season will…
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Here is Steve at our recent outing to Brookfield Zoo, with a unique way to take tea for busy people on the go. (hurray! The moblog returns! For some reason, I couldn’t get it to accept messages for a while. Look for more images to come)
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There’s a lot of bad news in the world; sometimes it’s good to remember the sage philosophical advice of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.. I see via immediacy that it’s high time I checked in with the movie doings, and also the new radio series site, which includes hoopy things to check out such as the original text-based game (I could never get Arthur Dent out of his bedroom, but he had aspirin in his pocket). My God. Did I just say “the friggin’ new radio series??” I’m listening to it now. It sounds pretty…
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Speaking as an adult, I thought that President Bush came off better than I expected… but then I didn’t have very high expectations. He had some facts at his fingertips, and he was able to drop the names of foreign leaders into the conversation to highlight the personal relationships he’s manage to build with some of them. However, his body language was that of an impatient, even angry man who looked like he’d been called on the carpet unjustly. His hunched shoulders and dismissive turns of his head were not very presidential. Several times he stumbled or paused before answering…
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I need to have my husband David check this out ASAP: How were they able to do this? So far I think the answer is that my webhost was running suEXEC, yet I hadn’t uncommented the Umask lines in the mt.cfg. See Enabling Security features in the MT Installation manual. Movable Type produces files with permissions set so that people other than the owner have “write” privileges. If you have Cgiwrap or suEXEC you really do need to uncomment the Umask lines in your mt.cfg file. The Umask lines will set more restrictive permissions on the Movable Type files. If…