the light dawns
I was just idly staring at a canister labelled: Baby Powder And noticed the slight difference in phrasing of the French below that: Poudre pour bébé Glad to get that cleared up after all these years. Thanks, French label!
writing home
(I was answering an email from my mother and decided I might as well make a post of it.) We were on 72-hour earthquake alert after the one hit in Japan, and there was some worry about a tsunami hitting the Queen Charlottes. (The Pacific is like a sloshing bathtub, but larger?) I asked Nola [...]
a cat can look on a queen
Since the beginning of last spring I've been digitizing our DVD collection. Today I realized that I'm halfway through the bottom shelf, that I only have a few more movies to go. Yay, me. Yay, multi-terabyte storage. I can watch them on my Mac, or an iDevice, and the resolution is noticably better than our [...]
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bashing wood
About a month ago I was rooting around in the crawlspace, doing damage to my knees that'll never come good in this lifetime, and on a whim drug out an armful of lumber someone had stuck in there years back. I was curious if it was in any kind of shape since last winter we'd [...]
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celebratory
My birthday is next week. I am on holiday till then. Let the games begin! Tonight I am on the deck, enjoying late afternoon sun while Cardhu gnaws a bone just behind me. He's inside, I'm out. I am out here with an iPod and a book my mother gave me for my 19th birthday, [...]
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