And another cat as well

A housekeeping note: I’ve now added links to my index page for all my song paradies. So, for those of you with particularly masochistic tendencies, you should find my little ditties easy to locate and enjoy again and again and again. For those of you with better evolved self-preservation behaviors, you now have a list…

So Curmudgeon asks, “Was she skiing?” Not bloody likely. I regard ski poles the same way I regard crutches or chopsticks – unmanageable, and more likely to harm me than playing with matches while soaked in gasoline. I hurt myself at work with a good ol’ slip-and-fall. I spend the majority of time at work…

It’s just a stupid car. Yes, alright, it’s a brand new stupid car, but it’s a car. Yes, I feel badly you got rear ended tonight. Yes, I’m sure it’s misery having the first car you ever bought damaged to the tune of several thousand dollars twice in the first two months you’ve own it….

“Failure is an event, never a person.” William D. Brown I belong to one of those quote of the day groups, mostly because I’m too lazy to get my name taken off the subscribe list. Today’s quote struck a resonant chord, though. I’m sticking it in here so I don’t forget this. Sometimes it’s easier…

I’ve taken hundreds of pictures over the past few weeks in the Preserve. I’ve become absorbed in identifying everything as accurately as possible. I’m glad I’m doing this, as I’ve discovered that I have been a veritable warehouse of half-facts and out-and-out misinformation about some things (especially the smaller wildflowers). I’m discovering that some identifications…

I have previously mentioned that I keep a second diary here at DD. It is a summary of the doings of the forum that I help to administer. I stopped keeping this diary a week and a half ago. I was frustrated because it was taking an hour or more of my time a day…