Feb 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
christine has just alerted me via text message that they have ABOLISHED BAGEL-N-DOUGHNUT DAY at standard & poor’s where she works. what is the world coming to? i hadn’t heard from christine in approximately 1.3 million years, by the way. luckily she...
Feb 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
i added a link to his website over there on the right. he’s now in the leather-making business – he even got an EIN so that he could buy some wholesale…things. he told me about these things…studs? things…that he couldn’t find...
Feb 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
i was going to write wednesday MORNING things up there on the title line, but i’ve just realized that it’s already past noon. when i’m sick, time has less meaning than usual. i’ve mostly been sitting here watching all the birds eating outside...
Feb 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
this is going to be very fast because i can’t stand the glare of the monitor. i know there’s a way to turn down the brightness, but i just don’t feel like it. kevin and i both woke up in the middle of the night on friday night feeling like we were...
Feb 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
Grace wrote this this morning – By grace on Feb 13, 2009 kevin was very happy when he got home last night. i’m encouraging him to write about his experience in his own words. right now he’s sitting around reading a catalog, but maybe later he’ll do it…i grilled...
Feb 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
wednesday at the lincoln event at the convention center was this most incredible looking harley. kim shirley created it. i heard that it’s been on display at the presidential museum. i had to take lots of photos, even though i’m not a motorcycle person....
Feb 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
but clearly the 114th is not there. so either they’ve come and gone, or they’re locked in a room somewhere. or drinking.
Feb 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
almost all my animal activities are done for the day. numie and noodle are here on the couch with me. noodle has a treat i gave him earlier and it’s taking him a long time to finish it and mollie is insane with jealousy. she’s lying on the far end of...
Feb 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
why are hey doing that? what if the 114th is marching in RIGHT NOW? or maybe they’ve decided that the men with the big guns are just too risky, and they’re all sequestered in a room somewhere. or they’re drinking at the bar. that’s another...
Feb 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
so maybe now kevin will get to march in. they have video but no audio; the newscasters are babbling away.
Feb 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
he’s jus entering now and he’s being MOBBED by people in the hall. he was supposed to be there at 7:45 but obviously he just hurried right to the hotel. i’m very happy i’ve been sitting here with the TV on.
Feb 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
they showed it on tv. but then they cut away, and they won’t be back on the air until he makes his speech at the crowne plaza hotel at 7:45. but what is he doing till then? david just left my house and wasn’t able to drive up hazel dell road, nor west...
Feb 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
yesterday, yesterday…it seems so long ago. a gray and rainy day mostly. we were gone for quite a while in the morning, attending the lincoln event at the convention center. i came home and fed the fish and the cats and brought the dogs over to our house and...
Feb 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
day three already? no wait, that was YESTERDAY – today is already day four! yesterday, it seems so long ago – yesterday it was VERY WARM outside, and the dogs were happy because they were at our house most of the day plus they got to go outside and bark...
Feb 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
tired. very tired. earlier this evening while i was uploading photos, the dogs were lying on the bed and i was in the chair next to the fire. everybody was calm & happy. numie and noodle spent most of their day at our house, so hopefully they’ll be fine at...
Feb 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
thursday is the celebration of lincoln’s 200th birthday. things are JUMPING here in the capitol city, let me tell ya. all kinds of activities, all the time, everywhere you look. on thursday, though…thursday there’s a lincoln dinner at the crowne...
Feb 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
amy and jim left about 11 this morning, headed for miami, where it is WARM AND SUNNY. a perfect day to go there, because all day long it has been gray and cold. not COLD cold, like a few weeks ago, but yesterday the high reached about 68 and it was sunny and...
Feb 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
well, i managed to successfully upload another banner. this time it has a border, but it’s not as thick as i’d like it to be, but it’s good enough for this time. at least now i figured out a better way to make a border. this morning i’ve been...
Feb 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
yesterday moring i woke up at 7:30. i petted Mollie, who was lying there next to me. i stumbled around a bit, put on my robe, and staggered out into the living room. no kevin. where was kevin? his coffee wasn’t brewing. there was no newspaper lying around...
Feb 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
I wanted to put this one up now because that’s how it looks right now. well, that’s how it looked a couple days ago; luckily the snow is melting now, although part of the lake is still frozen. i figured out how to add a border to the banner, but i think...
Feb 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
some guy named chris pine is going to be the young kirk, and on IMDB he doesn’t even look like brad pitt. he was in “princess diaries 2”, which i missed, so i’ve never seen him before. simon pegg is going to be the young scotty, which seems...
Feb 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
first, christine pointed out that it’s NOT BRAD PITT in the upcoming “star trek” movie. i must have been overcome with the football excitement. what with the running around with the ball and throwing and catching it and everybody piling up on each...
Feb 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
just kidding. we are here at mom and dad’s, watching the game. at least jim is earnestly watching the game. maybe kevin is too. we’re all watching the ads. i’ve already seen a couple of cute ones involving clydesdales. and OH MY GOD i...
Feb 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
i got a comment, a chinese website, and i was pretty sure it was spam but not entirely sure, so while i was battling with the new banner i asked kevin to look it up. he did a google translation of it, and this is what he wrote: “what this person said was:...
Feb 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
it’s a RED-LETTER DAY around here! i’m still in my jammies, but yet i’ve actually managed to GET SOMETHING DONE. actually, i created this banner when i got a new version of photoshop, but then i didn’t know how to insert it into the site, and...
