| Tilting At Windmills |
[Jan. 1st, 2020|12:00 am] |
| [ | The river is |
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I'm going to start unlocking my journal now.
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| All The News... |
[Feb. 6th, 2010|02:02 pm] |
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| Useful Safety Info From Consumer Reports |
[Jan. 27th, 2010|07:11 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | safety | ] |
| [ | The frogs are singing |
| | At Last -- as played by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra -- playing in my head | ] |
What to do if your car won't stop accelerating:
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| If You Don't Like The Weather... |
[Jan. 27th, 2010|08:19 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | weather | ] |
| [ | The frogs are singing |
| | I'll Fly Away -- playing in my head | ] |
For the past week or so, the weather here in Austin has been quite pleasant, with the temperature most days getting above 60 and even into the low 70's on a couple of days. But all of that is about to change...
From the National Weather Service:
Thursday: Showers, with thunderstorms also possible after noon. Some of the storms could be severe. Patchy fog before noon. High near 66. Southeast wind between 15 and 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Thursday Night: Rain showers before 3am, then rain showers likely, possibly mixed with sleet. Some thunder is also possible. Low around 35. South southeast wind 10 to 20 mph becoming north northwest. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Friday: A chance of rain showers and sleet before 9am, then a chance of rain showers between 9am and noon. Cloudy, with a high near 42. Windy, with a north northwest wind between 15 and 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 27. North northwest wind around 15 mph.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 48. North northeast wind around 15 mph.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 28. Northeast wind between 10 and 15 mph.
Sunday: Partly sunny, with a high near 51. Northeast wind around 10 mph becoming southeast. |
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| Inside A Giant Geode |
[Jan. 21st, 2010|08:15 pm] |
I strongly recommend that you watch this amazing video of a reporter in a cave of giant crystals. The article about the cave is interesting too, but the video is amazing.
You can see both by clicking here.
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| Cool Flicker Viewer |
[Jan. 19th, 2010|09:50 pm] |
I've just discovered something called Flickriver. It's viewer for Flickr photos that just keeps posting more pictures as you scroll down. If you're curious, you can view random photos from my flickr account via Flickriver by clicking here.
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| Are You Sick? no. Are you hungry? no. |
[Jan. 15th, 2010|09:21 pm] |
I was going to make a whiny post how I've been sick with a cold and then I had a migraine and I'm short of cash and everything sucks and whine, whine, whine. But it seems like there are people in the world who are worse off than I am, so I'm not going to make that post.
Instead I'll say that G took nice care of me while I was sick and the zinc cold lozenges helped get rid of my cold really quickly. Also my nice cat sitter reduced his fee after the fact because I'm letting him park a trailer out on my land. And I'm getting to like Facebook a bit better. And I started watching Torchwood while I was sick. At first I didn't really like it, but it's growing on me. I love watching TV online. It's so nice to be able to watch a show when I want to rather than having to worry about seeing it when it's actually on. And it's raining again. It's cold and wet outside and I'm inside and warm. So overall, life is good.
It also seems that there are people in the world who need some pretty serious cheering up today so here's a random kitten video from youtube:
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| Weather Update |
[Jan. 9th, 2010|11:30 am] |
It was 26° F when I woke up at, I'm guessing 9:45 or so. It's 30° and rising now.
I'm impressed to see that the cold has reached Volcán Popocatépetl down in Mexico. I've never seen snow this far down the mountainside.
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| How Low Can You Go? |
[Jan. 8th, 2010|10:43 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | weather | ] |
| [ | The frogs are singing |
| | DJ Hero with DJ G doing some intergalactic song | ] |
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Point Forecast: Austin TX
30.27°N 97.74°W (Elev. 508 ft)
Overnight: Clear, with a low around 12. Calm wind.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 44. Calm wind becoming east around 5 mph.
Saturday Night: Clear, with a low around 16. East wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 51. Calm wind becoming south southeast between 5 and 10 mph.
Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 24. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 56. Calm wind becoming south southeast around 5 mph.
Monday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph. |
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| Wrapping With Cloth |
[Jan. 8th, 2010|09:16 am] |
My family has started using, and re-using, cloth to wrap most of our Christmas presents. Someone on TQC posted this video on how to wrap presents with a special Japanese scarf (or something like that). The techniques shown will prove useful next Christmas and probably before. Especially the "How To Make A Bag" technique shown at the end.
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| Let's Make It A Good One |
[Jan. 1st, 2010|01:29 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | holiday | ] |
| [ | The river is |
| |  tired | ] |
Happy New Year! |
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| Attention Kerrville Folks |
[Dec. 30th, 2009|11:52 pm] |
Charley, of Carolyn and Charley at Kerrville (Carolyn who plays the flute), got sick on Christmas and died a few days later. He was a really nice guy and will be sadly missed.
Here are the details on his memorial service from Carolyn's Facebook account:
Memorial services for Charley are Saturday 1-3 pm at All Faiths, 8507 N. I35 (between 183/rundberg on the east side.) Phone there is 339-8878. If you have any funny, or other stories you want to share, please email a copy to me at my home address. If you want to sing, play a song, or talk at the service, we will have a sign up sheet there. Open house after at Charley's home. questions, call |
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| Baby It's Cold Outside |
[Dec. 29th, 2009|10:16 am] |
I'm thinking of floating on my back in the Medina River. Here's a picture of what I'd see so you all can float with me.
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| Here And There |
[Dec. 29th, 2009|02:35 am] |
We're back in Brooklyn for a couple of days. We're going to see a Samurai sword exhibit tomorrow and the Tim Burton Exhibit on Wednesday. Then we'll go back to Connecticut ,where fountain-of-sparks fireworks are legal, and on New Year's Eve and we'll ring in the year with some store-bought fireworks. Then we plan to fly home to Texas on New Year's night. There's a chance the weather will be too snowy. If it is, we'll probably fly out a day or two later. But for now the plan is to fly home on Friday. |
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| It's The Same, Only Different |
[Dec. 26th, 2009|06:31 pm] |
| [ | The frogs are singing |
| | Way Out West In Texas -- playing in my head | ] |
Aside from the snow, Connecticut is so different from Texas. It gets dark by about 4:30 here. It's raining and the rain sounds different. The birds are different. Everything is normal and feels normal, but then I look again and it's not.
I'm kind of homesick right now. Not bad homesick, just kind of missing my cats and Texas. I think it's the dark. It comes way too early here. |
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| Before Returning To Dint Go!! |
[Dec. 21st, 2009|06:57 pm] |
Click below to see an amusing example of Engrish.
Warning: behind the cut is a large (but not huge) photograph.
( Explode The Warrior ) |
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| Snow |
[Dec. 20th, 2009|12:29 pm] |
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| The Blizzard |
[Dec. 20th, 2009|10:14 am] |
So the Connecticut version of The Blizzard Of '09 was much snowier than the Austin version of The Blizzard Of '09 was. For this year, in terms of snow, Connecticut FTW!
Photos to follow. |
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| It's Getting Deeper |
[Dec. 20th, 2009|01:02 am] |
G and I had a great walk in the snow. It's over 6 inches and still snowing. Then we came inside and I made hot chocolate and toast only to discover that the butter I used on the toast had expired in 2008. :-o
So we had hot chocolate but no toast. |
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| Oh Well |
[Dec. 19th, 2009|06:13 pm] |
| [ | The river is |
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The house in Connecticut has big outdoor lights that illuminate the snow as it falls. It's really beautiful.
But they aren't working...which I guess is OK because it's not snowing here anyway. |
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