Puxatawny Phil must be blind. That’s the only excuse I can come up with that he saw no shadow today. Who’d trust a groundhog as a weather forecaster anyhow? Still learning the ins and outs of my new MacBook. It came loaded with something called “Lion”, which I guess is an operating system. The Prof’s…
Last Wednesday I plugged my little Nook into my litte Acer to do a little download. Unfortunately, my Acer selected that particular moment to release its grasp on life and went to that great cyber-junkyard in the sky. I certainly got my money’s worth. For a little over $300 I got a 9″ netbook that…
I am definitely gainfully employed again. I think (hope) that I’ve finally climbed over the steepest part of the learning curve on the new job. I’ve been assigned my permanent shift, and it’s going to pretty much be a life-changer – 3:30 pm until midnight, with every other weekend on. The weekends won’t be the…
Long time, no substantive update. That didn’t used to be the case. When The Salamander was relatively anonymous, making an entry was like poking a note into a bottle and chucking it into the Atlantic. Chances were that the note wasn’t going to be read, and if it was it would be by an anonymous…
I’m not sure where I was July 23th. I was one week into the new Big Box Pharmacy job, and wrapped up in my own little world apparently. I wasn’t listening to much radio, wasn’t reading much news, wasn’t communicating with friends more than the occasional two-line email. And yet the news that Amy Winehouse…
I welcomed in the New Year with continued dysentery the color and consistency of split pea soup. The Prof has suggested I rename this journal to “Salamander’s Diarya” (say it out loud if you don’t get the joke). Several doses of Imodium later (taken as directed, one after each bowel movement, not to exceed four…
So we stand on the brink of 2012. Since the world as we know it failed to come to an end on New Year’s Day 2000, the fatalists are now pointing out that the Mayan long calendar ends on 12/21/12. Since that is the official end of the Mayan Great Cycle, and since the Mayans…
I leave for the new job in an hour. Between the normal Christmas stressors and this I’m a borderline basket case between the ears. I console myself with the fact that nobody expects much out of you on the first day of a job; it’s the *second* day I should be worrying about. Doesn’t help…
May your long dark winter nights be filled with bright starry lightsMay you stay warm on cold winter days by a hearth with logs ablazeMay your holiday cheer last throughout the new yearMay my good wishes for you in the next year all come true – Best Wishes for a Wonderful Holiday Season from The…
… and all through the houseThere was stuff needed doingAnd fires to douse. The stockings were hung on the mantel with careIncluding poor Warrior Princess’sAnd I don’t care if it doesn’t rhyme or scanCause I still miss her. Once again I am book wrapping for donations to the cat shelter, and once again it has…