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January, 2007
January 12th, 2007
Last night I told Pugly that we needed to be up extra early because I had an 8am PT appointment and yesterday morning he hadn’t been all that helpful about helping me get to my 8:30am acupuncture appointment on time. He hadn’t seemed all that impressed last night but I thought that maybe something might change in the middle of the night.
The truth is that I don’t do 8am appointments very well.
So, I overslept. I woke up at 6:30am, knowing full well that I needed to leave by 7:15am if I were going to get to the city in time.
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Tags: life
January 12th, 2007
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
– Albert Einstein
Tags: Quote of the Day, Albert Einstein
January 11th, 2007
You know that creepy back hallway you need a security badge to get out of that I mentioned yesterday? Well, here it is…
Never know who might be lurking in there that might want to just wander into our work area and steal our valuable…erm…pens and pencils.
Take a look at the ceiling…it’s evidence that the building is a converted parking garage.
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Tags: project365, photoaday, oneaday, creepy, sepia, pxn8
January 11th, 2007
Today’s Thursday Thirteen is brought to you by the letters W, I, and G, and the numbers 5 and 23.
I found these all in less than seven days. I swear, New Englanders have the most Vanity Plates per square mile. 
Thirteen Things about N. Mallory
- This guy is just “CREWZN.”
- I can only imagine this person is a self-styled “gangsta”. Though, in a Mazda? Probably not very credible.
- This must be a mother.
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Tags: vanity plates, photo blogging, thursday thirteen, meme, bloghopping, license plates, automobiles, cars, parking lot, parking garage, Maine, New England
January 11th, 2007
“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tags: Quote of the Day
January 10th, 2007
Where I work, if you don’t have a security badge, you can’t get back from the dimly lit hall where the bathrooms are to the office without wedging the door open with a trashcan. We’ve been told this is a serious security violation as that could lead to just anyone wandering in.
There used to be a “guest” badge for visitors of the building to borrow — you know, those folks who have meetings in the conference room, consultants, schmucks who’ve left their real security badges on their
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Tags: security, trashcan, pxn8, project365, photoaday, oneaday, photo blogging
January 10th, 2007
Here are the goals I’m setting for myself to work on this year to work toward greener living. (I’ve chosen these from the book It’s Easy Being Green by Crissy Trask.) Through the year, as I check things off to my satisfaction or want to update the list, I’ll be doing it over in the memos/pages area.
- Use my printer’s sleep/stand-by mode.
- Turn off the water while brushing your teeth or shaving. Running the water continuously for just two minutes can waste three gallons of water!
- Buy a shower curtain that will far outlast cheap plastic ones; a shower
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Tags: none
January 10th, 2007
Thanks to Buttercup, I discovered it’s National Delurking Week. Who knew? And who comes up with these things and when? Inquiring minds want to know, you know.
Anyway!
So what is it? Apparently, it’s the week when all the lurkers out there are finally supposed to own up to the fact that they visit blogs — you know, come out of the virtual blog closet, so to speak. The idea is that if you read a blog and have never actually commented, you’re supposed to leave a
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Tags: National Delurking Week, bloghopping, commenting
January 10th, 2007
Over at Thudfactor, James has talking about how companies are willing to give things away to bloggers who mention them or review them in their blogs.
I don’t mean those payperpost folks that give you some piddling fee to misrepresent yourself and tell everyone you’ve used a product or a website and highly endorse it, heck, you’ll bet your first born’s life on it… (Yes, I checked it out. It made me feel dirty and slimy. I never did see where anyone got anything for free to try when the product cost money to buy
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Tags: bribery, blogging, Adagio tea, Microsoft, Vista, payperpost, free stuff
January 10th, 2007
Someone please take away my credit cards and change my amazon.com password. Give me an allowance for food.
Must. Stop. Spending.
Tags: spending, spendthrift, spendaholic
January 10th, 2007
“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.”
– Bertrand Russell
Tags: Quote of the Day
January 9th, 2007
Since the beginning of December, I’ve been going twice a week to physical therapy in this warm water pool to treat my fibromyalgia. This week I’m switching to once a week on land and once a week in the water. I’m going to miss the comfort of not sweating during my aerobic workout. 
However, an hour in warm water always makes me a little “rushed” afterward…just saying.
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Tags: project365, photoaday, oneaday, photo blogging, pxn8, physical therapy, water therapy, fibromyalgia
January 9th, 2007
Well, it appears that I’ve got signs of at least one unwanted house critter — though you know if there’s one, there’s more.
The clues:
- Some thing’s definitely been imbibing in the bird seed I’ve got stored in the basement and it’s not the birdies I bought it for, which makes me very grumpy.
- Needy and Pugly have both been interested in some thing beneath the stove.
- Pugly has been barking at the wall between the kitchen and the living room for no apparent reason. (There goes my theory that he’s gone insane.)
- Two nights ago, Needy was very interested in the skittering of
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Tags: mice, rodents, rats, little red house, the cats, the puppy
January 9th, 2007
“Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn’t learn of it for six months.”
– Bill Tammeus
Tags: Quote of the Day
January 8th, 2007
You wouldn’t know it from looking at my desk at work, but I really have cut way down on my caffeine. I’m just way too sleepy now to carry the empties to the recycle bin.
By the way, I edited this picture using the online editor at pxn8.com, which I heard about from Amber Rhea (PXN8: Awesome online photo editor) a while back and for some reason saved the post. Maybe I fore-knew that I’d
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Tags: project365, photaday, oneaday, Pepsi One, Diet Coke, Snapple, Nikon, Monster Pod, Gorillapod, tripod, photography, photo blogging, pxn8, caffeine, recycle, sepia, blue
January 8th, 2007
Random Joy
- After a long day, I like to kick back with…? HGtv, my afghan, and my animals.
- Do you know anyone “famous”/who is the “most famous” person you’ve ever met? I’ve met lots of famous people at sci-fi conventions — actors, writers, and artists. Most seem to be more down to earth at them. Laurell K. Hamilton, Jewell Staite, Ruth Thompson and Timothy Zahn come to mind. Didn’t care for Anne McCaffrey or Claudia Christian at all.
- What is your favourite piece of classical music? - Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
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Tags: Monday\'s a Bitch, meme, bloghopping
January 8th, 2007
I’ve been toying with the sidebar for a few days. Let me know if it’s easier or harder to find things.
- Put all the pages into a drop-down menu so they take up less space.
- Moved the blog description to the top.
- Moved all the drop-down menus (category, archive, and page selections) to just below the search box at the top so they are all in one place.
- Added a button to add this blog to your technorati favorites as well as a button linking this website to project 365!.
- I moved around some of the “flair” so that it actually fit
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Tags: website update
January 8th, 2007
“Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.”
– Charles McCabe
Tags: Quote of the Day
January 7th, 2007
I’ve been playing with my camera and my stained glass piece in my picture window; I like the way the beveled piece on the left shows in the photo. I only have two crab apple trees in my front yard, by the way.
To view my entire “Study in Stained Glass” as a slide show, click here.
Tags: project365, photoaday, oneaday, stained glass, photo blogging
