Study Break

My company has a very active safety office. My work environment is quite dangerous, and we do everything we can to keep accidents to a minimum. To keep everyone’s safety awareness at maximum, a “Picture of the Week” is hung in the main lobby. The pictures usually come from the Navy’s Safety Center web site….

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I’m still taking in textures, still surreptitiously fingering the velvet at Coldwater Creek and playing with the coffee beans when nobody is watching. I’ve lost a little of the manic optimism that I was carrying earlier, and I’ve lost a little of the crushing depression that set in last week. I’m somewhere in-between now, tethered…

There’s a daily newslist for people who have the same cancer that I do. It’s surprisingly active, considering how few of us there are. The discussions this week centered mostly around people getting rejected for life and disability insurance. Based on comments from participants plus the forum’s moderator (a reputable foundation for this disease) having…

For those who inquired, I found a nice little web page that tells a bit about ornamental gourds. The American Gourd Society, which I didn’t even know existed until I went looking for specific gourd information, has more information than I ever knew to ask anyhow. For those who simply want to cut tot he…

I may have mentioned that The Professor is keeping vampire hours at the moment. He hits bed around 6:00 am and gets up midafternoon. That’s fine by me. But it means he’s up and about in the wee hours, doing whatever it is Professors do when Salamanders are sleeping. Well, the night before last he…