Dec 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
not a good way to spend the days leading up to xmas. i had a little sore throat saturday night, then all of a sudden i had the full-blown flu on sunday. dreadful. i can’t remember that last time i got the flu. i got a flu shot for the first time last year and...
Dec 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
and i guess that’s how it’s gonna be for the next few months, sooooo cold. at least we only have a minute amount of snow. right now. i’m typing on my computer which is so amazingly fast that sometimes it does stuff for me that i don’t even...
Dec 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
that’s what color my computer screen was the other day after i dropped it. actually, it was fine right after i dropped it, but then blue the next day. so i”m blue about the blue. meanwhile…i ordered a new, better computer (even though nobody buys...
Nov 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
yesterday morning, at the crack of nine a.m., kevin and i started running the TURKEY TROT thanksgiving race at washington park. maybe it wasn’t really a race, just a run that benefited…something. people without health insurance, maybe? we actually started...
Nov 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
i read about this interactive bob dylan song, which i can’t even describe, you just need to click on the link and watch it right now! interactive bob dylan like a rolling stone ok then, enjoy, gh
Nov 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
i finally decided that i’m going to do first night again this year. they asked me to do it and i said i would, but then i spent a lot of time agonizing about my desire or ability to try to make people laugh this year. but i finally decided, why not give it a...
Nov 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
because she frequently writes to me, complaining about my lack of regular posting, here i am YET AGAIN. because there has been so much news about the 50th anniversary of JFK’s asassination, i have started asking people if they thought it was a conspiracy. i...
Nov 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
and i don’t have much time here, i have to go be a reader for a state exam for somebody with a disability. it’s a little bit tedious, but not so bad, but i have to be there by 9:30. last night i told kevin that i had to get up by at least 8:00, but i was...
Nov 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
and things are…OK. not terrible at this little point in time. but you never know. i keep checking the IMAX website to see if more theaters are showing GRAVITY: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE, but it’s still only kennisaw, GA and tallahassee, FL. meanwhile…...
Nov 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
i just checked the IMAX website, and now “gravity” is also playing in kennesaw, GA, in addition to tallahassee, so YAY for that! kennesaw, which is just a little bit north of atlanta, is only 9 hours away, instead of the 14 we’d have to travel if we...
Nov 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
here’s a good shot of chester, since i put up that one of les sleeping like an angel. chester, KIND OF SODA!
Nov 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
My client showed up and said he smelled gas outside the front door. i stepped out and sure enough, it smelled like gas. it was the dryer, it turns out – it’s been failing a little more every time i try to dry clothes, and now it was just belching gas out...
Nov 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
hmm, i haven’t had much luck in my search for the generous mrs. maricar emad suaiss, who is eager to give me more than 3 million dollars. for one thing, the avenues in abdjian, cote d’ivoire only seem to go up to about avenue 26. plus, the rues, only to...
Nov 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
i really have to get up and get ready for a massage, but i simply must post this e-mail that i just got. so, i’m going to be SO RICH!!! Donation From.Mrs Maricar Emad Suaiss Mrs Maricar Emad Suaiss. Avenue 606 rue 191 Zone 5 Abidjan Ivory Coast,West Africa...
Nov 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
why not? here is lester, snuggling under a blanket yesterday when it was cold, cold, cold. chester was also under a blanket, and i should have taken a picture of him, too. winnie didn’t want any stinkin blanket. there is still a little snow in the yard. ok then,...
Nov 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
and you should totally see it in 3D, and if you live in or near tallahassee, florida, you’re in luck; otherwise, you are screwed. i didn’t really care so much about seeing “gravity,” and didn’t think about it, but then there was a glowing...
Nov 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
and it’s gray and has been raining and will rain more and it’s gonna get cold tonight. cold. and that’s my weather update for today. i’m going to go running in a minute, because i feel that when the temperature starts to plunge more, i’m...
Nov 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
oh boy. at the end of september, kevin and garrick drove the very very long drive to winchester, virginia, where they worked at the NSSA, that is to say, north south skirmish association, their big twice-yearly national shooting competition. the different units take...
Oct 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
that’s right, it’s just ONE DAY LATER than yesterday, and i’m already posting again! as i’m uploading these pictures, lester and chester and sparring on the living room rug in front of me, doing a great job of diverting my attention so i...
Oct 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
…and here is the BEST PHOTO OF THE MONTH… this little flag was lying on the counter and les jumped up, picked it up and carried it across the counter! i was so surprised that i didn’t have time to take a picture, but luckily he jumped down and...
Oct 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
ok, the end of october looms menacingly at me… many, many sailboat pictures. first, the day, sometime in september, when kevin was so dying to get out on the sailboat that he went out on the lake with just the little sail, the jib, right? the little sail in the...
Oct 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
and it’s chilly and i have lots to do today, but have spent time researching a new printer on amazon and it’s a little daunting because there are many, many choices and i get really bored with thinking about it, but now our printer/copier doesn’t...
Oct 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
i spent the last two days furiously cleaning the hot tub room (it was filthy), getting it ready for the huge influx of flowers, then moving the flowers, and digging up some that were in non-moveable planters, and carrying so much stuff around that i wore myself out...
Oct 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
this is the september day when we launched the sailboat. and “we” is used very loosely, because you’ll see that really, kevin did all the work. here he is, seeing how far down the water is. now, backing the boat into the water. well, this is my job...
Oct 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
and september is already gone and i throw up my hands at ever getting all the photos up here from things that happened in september, besides our darling dog dying, which has made me too sad to do most anything. but life does go on, and the sailboat has been launched...
Sep 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
ok, i started writing this yesterday and was sure i’d have time to get back to it, but now it’s thursday already… whew. well, for one thing, our router quit working, and then our modem quit working after we got a new router. so that’s one...
Sep 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
seven years ago, i woke up feeling very tired and crabby. yes, i had done way too much of the wedding preparations myself, including making the very giant cake. jim and kevin put the giant cake into the back of the van and jim and i sat there with it as kevin...
Sep 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
i heard it rain in the night, a very good thing. plus i think we’ve seen the last of the 90+ temps for the year. amen to that. kevin launched the sailboat yesterday morning. i took many, many photos, which of course will be here at some point....
Sep 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
i’ve been poring through my thousands of photos, looking for the best ones with mollie in them. i guess i shouldn’t wait til i’ve organized all of them to post, because there are just so many. on tuesday, she went in the car with kevin when he ran...
Sep 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
looking at pictures of mollie, making myself waaaay too sad. but we did have some really good times.. here’s my favorite picture from our very short trip down to gulf shore, AL, in february. we took mollie for walks on the beach even though it was clearly...
