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We went to Hampton Virginia for Thanksgiving, and it was a great road trip.  Wonderful hospitality, lovely people, excellent food.  Lessons learned: * Beef jerky is an acceptable food substance. * It is 890 miles from home to Hampton VA. * Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia combined have less police out on

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Concert:: Mannheim Steamroller, with Dennis and Amy. 2. Sydney:: Opera House, Finding Nemo. 3. Shower:: Bathroom. 4. Patterns:: Knitting, green Aran wool, 42 row pattern and 13 row patterns both together, "It'll be ready for our anniversary!" and eight

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Plan B:: Three Mile Island, nuclear meltdown. 2. Seattle:: Microsoft, home of the General Protection Fault and the Fatal Exception. 1. The lady wore:: red. 2. Upsetting:: flat cats on the road to work. 3. Tampon:: mouse. 4. Celebrity:: deathmatch. 5. Baja:: Suburu

Meme from bardling, swiped from Plaid Dragon's blog. "Look around you right now and name 3 things you can see in the room you're in that make you smile/happy, even if it is just the tiniest little bit!" 1. Two pictures of my

Playing Unconscious Mutterings game of free association again. 1. Leapfrog:: playtime in Broke Hall Primary, stinging nettles. 2. Co-workers:: lawn mower, cookies, food days, friends. 3. Mustang:: Michelle from Alpha, watching Nicky Gumbel in the Engleman's living room. 4. Wafer:: communion at Evanston Vineyard IL, eighth wedding anniversary.

Found Unconscious Mutterings game of free association on Hubby's blog. Free association is described as a "psychoanalytic procedure in which a person is encouraged to give free rein to his or her thoughts and feelings, verbalizing whatever comes into the mind without monitoring its content." Over

Kudos to Jo Mints for sending the free sample pack of Jo Mints and M60 mints, it arrived this week.  Both are caffeinated with guarana.  The standard Jo Mints come in the nicest box I've seen in a while, and there's a mirror in the lid.

Indoor cats used to a silent house, and getting a new roof on that house do not mix.  Neither cat appears to have ventured out from under the basement stairs all day. Whoever decided business formal dress code required hose has never had to wear them.  What's wrong