They’re Grrrrrreat! (?)

Doubleday just doesn’t “get” it. I receieved a reply from them on Friday, which I responded to today regarding our little ongoing discussion on spam. From: Double Day Service Reply-To: Double Day Service To: Salamander Subject: Re: You must be joking. Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 17:04:30 -0500 We apologize for the email correspondence that…

Summer solstice has arrived (3:32 a.m. in my time zone). It’s an overcast solstice that misses the whole point of having a longest day of the year by hiding the sun in haze. Solstice always feels portentous to me, as though I were just on the cusp of entering something new and better. The feeling…

This weekend’s get-away is cancelled. George sees a real vet in about two and a half hours. He was just sick again, and had some more *nasty* diarrhea. The Prof even smelled it from the other end of the apartment. Bathroom door is shut, and the exhaust fan is going at the moment. Thank heaven…

Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you later. — Mary Bly My kite arrived in the mail today! Kite (with fanny pack), string, spool … all tucked away safely in the trunk of my car. Now I stare out my office window at the absolutely still, hot morning…

It’s been rain, rain and more rain here in the Land O’ Salamander. This morning, briefly, the sun managed to find a cleft in the clouds. While I can’t say that the sun actually made an appearance, it was finally possible to see shadows outside. I opened the slats of the blinds by the deck…

39. Field Behind the Plow – Stan Rogers This was written about the family farm, but it’s a story about pouring everything into a project with no guarantee of success. Nike’s “just do it” campaign becomes a shallow thing when you actually think about all the people in all the jobs across this world just…