as in “Contemplating my …” I’m in a funk. I tried explaining it to The Socialist yesterday, but the process of exposition is made difficult by the fact that I can’t actually explain it to even myself. I think that, in part, it’s got to do with the fact that I’m now nearly eleven months…

I’m getting emails with the subject line “Returned mail: User unknown” from [email protected]. The strange thing is that I’ve never sent email to the addresses that are coming back to my attention. The email has attachments to it. That’s to be expected on returned email alerts. It’s also to be expected if you’ve been sent…

Last night, on my way home from work, I was making a right hand turn onto a four lane highway. The light had just turned green, and while I wasn’t “jumping the light”, neither was I allowing more than a split second elapse from the time the light turned green until the time my right…

then come on over here and sit by me. Yeah, OK, I stole it from Steel Magnolias, which probably stole it from somewhere else. It sounds like it should be a Dorothy Parkerism, but what do I know? I tried Googling it, and came up empty handed. It seems my day to be ratting on…

For those of you who come here via a notify, I should point out that Yarngirl is the only person who submitted a response to my plea that someone confirm that the wrong notify message is going out on my entries. I’ve suspected it for a while, and a few people previously asked me about…

I took a brief vacation from DD over the Easter weekend. I popped in now and again, but didn’t make any updates. Initially, I’d intended to just give myself a breather, but after Easter luncheon/dinner/whatever-the-heck-you-call-a-meal-at-2:00-in-the-afternoon-on-a-holiday I found I needed some time to mull things over as well. Over all, it was a good weekend. I…

I nearly forgot my Very Important News. I’m continuing physical therapy for my neck discs three times a week. During this morning’s session, Adonis did some traction on my neck and managed to restore most of the feeling to my middle finger. My index finger is still pretty numb, but that’s OK. It’s far more…

It was an early day for The Salamander. Physical Therapy started an hour earlier (7:00 am), so I had to be out of bed by 5:00, and out the door by 5:30. It’ll be a late day for the Salamander. A couple of shipments failed to come in yesterday, and I need to be around…

My Christmas cactus is getting ready to bloom for Easter. I don’t know who is more confused, me or the cactus. In answer to one of yesterday’s comments, nope, I am not vaccinated against Q-fever. Coxiella burneti is on the chart, but isn’t too great a concern with the animals I work with, all of…

JAVMA (The Journal of the American Veterinary Association) had a really cool pullout poster this issue. It’s the only time in the past ten years that I can recall them doing such a thing. The poster is a listing of “Disease from Potential Bioterrorist Agents”. I rather doubt these will be used as bioterrorist agents,…