I grow things. And learn to use my camera again.

I don’t know what’s up with the camera, but it sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. Like when I’ve tried it in the past, the lens wouldn’t zoom out at all, and now it zooms out but the plastic flaps over the lens won’t retract all the way. Whatever. I pried open the [...]

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Late June? Too late for swimsuits…

Zee and I went shopping last night for a swimsuit, since neither one of my old (and I do mean old) two-piece numbers is exactly right. Apparently if you want to buy a swimsuit, you should go shopping for it in mid-February. Summer officially began only 8 days ago, and yet swimsuit [...]

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Lessons on doing it anyway.

I don’t know if you noticed, but I REALLY didn’t want to run this morning. And I did it anyway. And I remembered to wear a watch this time, just to see if I was still plodding along at a snail’s pace. Imagine my surprise when I looked down at my watch [...]

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Don’t want to run…

don’t want to run…don’t want to run…don’t want to run…don’t want to run…

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Note to self: get your butt out of bed

The A/C is messing with my sleep schedule. I didn’t get out of bed until after 8 this morning, and was dragging ass even then, so I ended up putting off the running until after 9:30. It’s not as hot as it was yesterday, and there was even a nice cool breeze, but [...]

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Summer miscellany

Looks like I spoke too soon when I told Dad the old-man painters weren’t around this summer. (These are the two guys who are usually painting some house down our street every summer–they work slowly, but they do a fine job, and listen to classical music and smoke their pipes while doing it) [...]

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News people, why do you want to make me dumber?

Thanks to Glenn Greenwald, who lets me know I’m not just a paranoiac.
I got to see the evening news quite a bit last week, since for a few days running, it coincided with dinner time. And I noticed something I hadn’t noticed before that set my antennae all a-twitter. I generally switch back [...]

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Running and biscuits

Two miles. I ran two miles this morning. And while my lungs got a little swampy in the last three-quarters of a mile or so, I did the whole thing without dying once.Also, I forgot to share a biscuit recipe I tried out yesterday morning. I’ve been trying and mostly failing to [...]

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Not so bright.

So yesterday I was all full of myself for having gotten down on hands and knees with a bucket of bleach-water, a scrub brush, and a mop in the kitchen. Our kitchen floor was fun-KAY. And not in a “hey, mister, that’s some funky dancin’! Right on!” sort of way. It required [...]

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See? Easy as pie.

Three and a half weeks after running 5+ days a week, and I’m finally back down to my just-got-back-from-Ireland weight. So basically it took me 3 months of walking my butt off to lose it in the first place, a week to gain 4 pounds of it back, and three and a half weeks [...]

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