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Friday, December 31, 2004

Reading, Reading, Reading

Still enjoying my vacation. Spent a few days in Baltimore/VA visiting my grandmother and other family–it’s good to see my cousin after his 2 years in the Peace Corps. Lots of pictures were taken with the new camera Michael got my for Christmas, but I haven’t installed the software and downloaded the pictures yet. Why [...]
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Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Earth?

No, I really haven’t fallen off the earth, I’m just enjoying my vacation. We got snow flurries Christmas day, and snow fall the day after. So that’s something anyway. When not eating, I’ve been catching up on my reading: Robert Silverberg’s “Legends II”, The newest Thieves’ World, books two and three of the Lemony Snicket series, the [...]
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Friday, December 24, 2004

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Yup. I love Christmas. Just finished wrapping Michael’s gifts, and just a few things left to bake. The only thing missing is snow, but you can’t have everything. When Michael comes home, we’ll decorate the tree, I have egg nog, and cookies, and a Christmas tree, and friends and family I love. So really, I do have everything important. Merry [...]
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Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Nuts

Thirty-five cookbooks and not a single recipe for nut rolls. Do they have some other name that I don’t know? Is there something blindingly obvious that I’m missing? I love nut rolls, but have never made them before. I’ve got nuts in the freezer, so all I need is a recipe. Grrr…
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Busy Busy Busy

Okay, it’s the 22nd and I haven’t made a single Christmas baked good yet. This means: 1) I have no time to post 2) If you’re in town, you shouldn’t stop by until tomorrow if you want any cookies. After that, however… What am I planning on making? Lemon bars, amaretto cake, pumpkin cookies, peanut butter blossoms, sugar cookies, m&m [...]
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Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Arcata Eye Time

Saturday, November 13 1:24 p.m. How rude. Saturday, October 16 4:06 p.m. Topless frisbee players were reported at the Community Park. The field was closed, and the bare-chested disc flingers covered up their immodest wiggly bits. 6:13 p.m. But at least a few – actually, 15 – of the once-brazen topless athletes remained behind, smoking and [...]
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Year’s Best Fantasy

Year’s Best Fantasy edited by David G. Hartwell (2001) I’m a sucker for short story collections–I love short stories, and fantasy collections are my favorite, so if I come across a collection, I usually buy it. This has, of course, led to some rather poor choices, such as “The Sorcerer’s Academy” and “Earth, Air, Fire, Water”, [...]
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Thomas the Rhymer

Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner (1990) Thomas the Rhymer is one of the books that managed to be precisely what I want to read. The tale is of Thomas the Rhymer, minstrel who falls for the queen of Elfland. The story is told from four different points of view: The longest narrative is from the [...]
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FedEx Has Incurred My Wrath

So I’ve had it with FedEx. We order a lot fo stuff through the mail (in fact most of my Christmas shopping was mail order) and so we get a lot of packages delivered to our house. Mostly it’s UPS and USPS that deliver, but sometimes it’s FedEx. So how did FedEx incur my wrath? Well, they [...]
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Monday, December 20, 2004

Mere Words

Mere words cannot experess how much I dislike Donald Rumsfeld. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld faced renewed criticism Sunday from lawmakers, including one prominent Republican, after he said he has not personally signed letters sent to family members of troops killed in action. Rumsfeld said armor was being produced as quickly as “humanly possible” — which turned out [...]
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Thursday, December 16, 2004

What Is Being Lost in Iraq

There is an article in today’s NY Times, about Iraq, American soldiers, and battle stress. It looks at how soldiers are adjusting after returning from Iraq, adjusting to civilian life after living in a battle zone. I’ve complained releatedly about how I think that our soldiers and returning veterans are not being treated as they should [...]
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Today

Happy Birthday to my Mom! (And coincidentally Beethoven)
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I Am Google

Random Quizziness (more…)
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Recent Science and Health News

Diet and Alzheimer’s Plaques There have been various studies that have found that reduced calorie diets can have positive effects upon human health, such as increased longevity. The latest is research that has found that in mice reduced calorie diets my slow Alzheimer’s disease. I find it fascinating, the effect that diet has upon our health. It’s [...]
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Categories: Science, Health & Nature  

Random Time

Skeletal systems of cartoon characters (via Making Light) I Need This On a T-Shirt: “Impaired by Wordiness” verbose \ver-BOHSS\ adjective 1 : containing more words than necessary : wordy; also : impaired by wordiness 2 : given to wordiness From Merriam Webster
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Buffy Season 7

We finally watched Buffy Season 7 this weekend (and I do mean we watched it all between Saturday afternoon and Sunday evening–I felt slightly motion sick by the time we were done) and I have to admit that I came away feeling a little disappointed. Although I was pleased with the ending, I just didn’t [...]
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Monday, December 13, 2004

Stephen Hawking

I highly recommend the Q & A with Stephen Hawking in the NY Times. Do you feel that scientists correct themselves as often as they should? More often than politicians, but not as often as they should. What is your I.Q.? I have no idea. People who boast about their I.Q. are losers I like Stephen Hawking!
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Saturday, December 11, 2004

I Thought It Was Just an Ingredient

Michael wants to make more bourbon balls. Apparently the fact that our kitchen cart is groaning under the weight of their alcoholic goodness isn’t enough. He needs MORE! So I needed to pick up corn syrup. I walked up and down the baking aisle three time, and couldn’t find it. I found honey and white sugar [...]
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Friday, December 10, 2004

Oh Dear

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Thursday, December 9, 2004

Cocaine and Soldiers–What in the News

I ran across two very interesting articles this morning while sitting at the Dr’s office. ‘GM cocaine grown in Colombia’ I found this fascinating since I just recently read about Round-Up resistant coca. I can’t say I’m surprised about either story. It would seem to me that coca growers have as much money as any company doing [...]
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