Memorial observances this year have been more understated, less advertised and less high profile. It’s an improvement. The anniversaries of this date should reflect far less political posturing and televised showmanship, and more scrutiny of the mark that has been left in our history, and the marks we wish to leave in our future history….
It’s becoming more difficult to fit updates into my daily routine. There just aren’t enough hours in the standard day to get everything accomplished. Of note: someone from my company’s human resources department came out to my office last week. He wanted to know if I had any veterinary journals I could lend him that…
Saturday morning. I’ve been at the computer for a few hours, catching up on my in bin. Diaries, email, bills, newsletters. How it accumulates when I turn my back on it for a while. Still didn’t really feel like dealing with it, but Hotmail had other ideas about it. They don’t play nice when you…
I chickened out of the government veterinary job. Their questionaire asked about skills in areas I haven’t been involved with since veterinary school. I’m simply don’t feel qualified for the position, based on what they say they’re looking for. It’s been an ego boost to be asked, but I don’t want to end up stuck…
I hurt too much. I hurt too easily. I’m too brittle to bend any more. I know it’s the drugs. Prednisone did this to me last time, and it’s doing it to me again this time. If I hadn’t been in such physical pain, I would never have taken the pred again. Cessation of the…
There’s a good article in today’s online edition of the New York Times. Entitled “Internet Gives Teenage Bullies Weapons to Wound From Afar the article gives an overview of online cruelty. A line from the article: The new weapons in the teenage arsenal of social cruelty include stealing each others’ screen names and sending inflammatory…
I’m still playing catch-up at work. A truism: One never truly gets vacation. One simply gets the opportunity to put off a week’s worth of work so that they can do two weeks’ worth of work the next week. While I was away, the morning glory vines executed a successful junta, and have now completely…
Those of you not on a high-speed connection have my apologies in advance for this entry. I couldn’t force myself to reduce these pictures as much as they required. For some reason my camera was able to compensate for my complete lack of artistic ability on this trip, and I managed to get some wonderfully…
It was a good vacation. It was a necessary vacation. Maybe I’ll get around to getting a few shots posted to the diary. I got some great close ups, including some of a very cooperative scorpion, a rather ugly looking tarantula, and a baby sidewinder that coiled himself up into a little disc the size…
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