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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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 like nice phones aside from the non-changeable banner that gets in the way of Caller ID and the clock every 5 seconds whether you want it or not. And the really loud tones on startup and shutdown. Embarassingly, head-turningly “who the hell has such a…
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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 making a monkey out of me, their stuff is much more lyrical than my craptabulous Blogon stanzas. Dammit dammit dammit. They write better mysteries than I can, too: The Mystery of the Missing Cat, by Chimko chimko find tree. need cat. where cat. chimko find…
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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 are evil! But there were some very nice examples there, and a lot of selection. Even David was impressed, and he usually views the early warning signs of a new household project with scepticism.
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Tenor Takes AWinter Journey Coast-to-Coast This is so cool! Tenor David Pisaro is walking across northern England on the classic Coast to Coast footpath right now, planning on ending his journey at Robin Hood’s Bay on about the 31st of January. The catch is that he is performing Schubert’s “Die Winterreise” each night – sometimes to audiences as small as 3 people (in a farmhouse that had the only piano for miles around). He’s attempting to meld “method” acting with classical music by literally experiencing a long, cold winter’s journey and then singing his heart out about just such a…
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We went for a “walk” on Saturday to take pictures of “pretty winter scenes.” Here is a bush. This is the only kind of Bush that I like these days. Not that I’m political or anything.
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Checked in at the TARflies Times site to see if the little counter to the next episode has started yet. Nope. Checked in at the TWOP Amazing Race site to see if any spoilers had been posted (sightings are considered spoilers) and ditto – nope. Augh. What’s happening? What’s happening? Are they starting soon?? And since the Tarflies site is run as a group blog, onto the blogroll it goes. Yayyyyy! (tm Kenny) God, I miss this show. Ready, set, Amazing Race already!
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My sister has gotten into the act with a few embarassing photos. I’m told that I might need to start a blackmail fund to keep her from sending the most notorious ones. Proof that I am indeed a full-blooded member of the Phaeomelanii: This was when we were living in Albuquerque in the early 60’s. Since I’m wearing the headress, I MUST be watching “Roy Rogers,” although maybe I’m cheering for the Indians. Usually I wore a cowboy hat and rode my palamino pony, “Horsey Honey” in the living room when RR was on. HH was powered by springs, not…
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Geodog’s MT Weblog: That nasty IE 6 scrolling bug that shows up in MT So the bug is still bugging, but one big lesson learned is “don’t past div code and brackets into blog posts!!!” Note to self – figure out how to past code in a little quote box.
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Okay, I’m starting to collect the essential accessories now – the Weather Pixie and Blogchalk: And here is what my Blogchalk says about me:United States, Illinois, Hoffman Estates, Burbclavia, English, Spanish, ginny, Female, 46-50. 🙂 And now I really, really have to go to bed.