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I'm getting Princess-Diana-Funeral-Week flashbacks.  When Princess Diana died, we'd just come out of watching Conspiracy Theory, and we were sneaking a shortcut through Guildford Railway Station to get home.  There was a late edition of the Evening Standard on sale in the station WHSmiths saying Diana

Three people multiplied by two and a quarter hours plus one electric hedge trimmer, two rakes, and one broom equals eight and a half bags of yard waste plus one dramatically improved yard. Contemplative hedge trimming doesn't work too well.  Contemplative raking and sweeping works a lot better.

Would the person who ordered a Midwest Monsoon please stand up? I'd like to see you in my office.  Now.

It got dark, very quickly, then the hail came around 2:45pm.  Loud, too loud to concentrate, bouncing off the ground and rattling the windows.  Sounded like an angry mob stoning a heretic.  Thunder in sharp whip cracks instead of slow rumbles.  Marble sized hail, in late May, collecting in

I probably won't post this week.  It's the end of the month, which means a ton of work, an inflexible deadline, lots of overtime, and desperate prayer that I won't have to go in next Saturday.  See you in June.

Stand aside Starbucks Mocha Frappachino ®, there's a better wake-up call: grapefruit juice.  A hefty dose of citric acid first thing in the morning is bound to wake me up.  I found a freeware alarm program called Citrus, and a set of sounds to go with it called Lemon

Somewhere in Texas had 17 inches of rain Thursday night according to the radio, which is 43cm, or nearly half a metre.  I'm still a metric girl, it makes much more sense just to slam on an extra zero or power of ten and keep making up great

Three-big-trees-raining-white-fuzz season has started.

The house external-scrape-and-paint job starts on Friday.  The fence rip-out-and-replace job starts when the wood arrives at the fencing company.  Both jobs will be finished hopefully by the end of this month but I get twitchy and panicky about spending large sums of money.  No-one said house-owning was this expensive.