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Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Sunday, August 31st, 2008This is the middle of a three-day holiday weekend as we head in to the -ber months. School is back in session and fall is only three weeks away. Where has the year gone so far?
I have to say that I really like long weekends and wish a four-day work week would be implemented. For […]
Night and Day
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008Today has been abnormal and off-kilter, but not in a bad way. I woke up at 4:30am to the sound of car doors outside our house as two of our three daughters headed off on a road trip to Las Vegas (along with one fiancee and one friend). Daughter number two remained at home and, […]
The Night is Darkest Before the Dawn
Sunday, July 20th, 2008Friday morning, I saw the midnight showing of The Dark Knight with two of my daughters and two of their friends. Our local theater gave out free t-shirts with Heath Ledger’s Joker on them so we arrived more than an hour early in order to get one each and spent the remaining time before the […]
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008Fires continue to rage across California and I feel bad for all the families affected by this frightening experience since we had a pretty bad one just up the hill from our house about four years ago. The smoke from these fires is being blown into Northern Nevada and we are currently under a “stagnant […]
Funny
Sunday, June 29th, 2008My last post talked about people sharing names and then I came across this article this morning: A Whole Lotta Liz.
How come I didn’t get an invitation?
Friday the 13th
Friday, June 13th, 2008My neck of the woods has been a little strange today. If you’re wondering why, you should check here or here. Fortunately, work was pretty quiet as usual and we had few visitors (human or otherwise), but that wasn’t the case when I got home. Most of the family has been barricaded indoors as we […]
Where Art Thou?
Saturday, March 1st, 2008A new category has been added to my blog for works of art. The photo below is of a piece created for a “Recycled Art-icles” show and was taken just before heading out the door to drop off the artwork at our local college.
The piece was created from the base of an old torchiere […]
My Two Cents
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008This is a presidential election year and I’m keeping tabs on the political process despite the fact that I just feel like ignoring the whole thing. The process started for us here in Cartoon City about a year ago when we were treated to an advance showing of what has become a three-ring circus: […]
Raucus Caucus
Saturday, January 19th, 2008Nevada has spoken. A great majority of our Republican residents, in their infinite wisdom, favored Mitt Romney well over the other contenders. Ron Paul took second place over John McCain, then came Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson, and Rudy Guiliani. The last-place candidate turned out to be the hardly-known Duncan Hunter who announced […]
New Hampshire
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008The projected winners from the New Hampshire primary are Hillary Clinton for the Democrats and John McCain for the Republicans. Both these candidates seem to be good choices and I’m happier with this outcome than I was with the Iowa caucuses. While I would probably vote for Barack Obama, I don’t feel he’s quite ready […]
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