April 29th, 2007
Quote of the Day: On Mind Control
“If you don’t control your mind, someone else will.”
- John Allston
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April 28th, 2007
Quote of the Day: On Why Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
“Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.”
- Mark Twain
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April 27th, 2007
Quote of the Day: On Truth
“Tell the truth and run.”
- Yugoslavian proverb
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April 27th, 2007
Adventures At Starbucks
A couple of days ago, FW, MJ and I went down to Starbucks to get our morning salvation.
Inside there was this elderly black woman, the kind of woman you look at and just immediately assume is one of those wise old women who has wonderful old stories to share and some sort of fascinatingly wickedly fun past full of adventure and daringness and history, the kind of woman you think must be one of the last remnants of true human compassion, enlightenment, and tolerance.
She wasn’t ready to pay yet as she was searching through her bags — one of those carry-ons on wheels with the pull out handle and a stuffed-to the gills totebag — so MJ and FW went on and ordered and paid and got their coffees. She was ready right as I was stepping up, so she stepped right on up and managed to roll over my foot, but I just smiled, because she was older and I’ve been taught to have patience with my elders. Despite the two cash registers, she managed to edge me away from the counter with her bulk and baggage and by rolling over my feet another couple of times, but I just smiled and waited my turn.
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April 27th, 2007
Photo of the Day: Love You, Mom!
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Don’t forget to stop by the Friday Ark too.
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April 27th, 2007
Moo Cards
I ordered a set of Mini Moo Cards today. I picked out about 30 photos from my flickr account and cropped them down to the itty bitty size of 28mm x 70mm. Basically I’ll get about 3 or 4 copies of each.
On the back of each card in orange print, I put the quote:
“Touch magic, pass it on.”
- Jane Yolen
Then my first two initials and my last name, an email address, and my flickr address.
Now, I’ve got about
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April 26th, 2007
Quote of the Day: On Truth
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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April 26th, 2007
Photo of the Day: 879-LIAR
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April 25th, 2007
Photo of the Day: 100th Most Interesting On 04/25/2007
According to Flickr’s mysterious “interestingness” formula, this is my 100th most interesting photo today:
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As you can see, Pugly is trying to eat that tree. He’s such a nature-loving, quirky, silly little dog.
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April 25th, 2007
Quote of the Day: On Accomplishing the Impossible
“Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.”
– Doug Larson
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April 25th, 2007
What’s In The Garden Now?
When I moved into my new house, Fall had pretty much set in real good. The leaves were long gone from my crabapple trees in the front yard and my lilac trees along one side of the house. There were two bushes at each end of the front of the house, which I’m told are rhododendrons, and a bunch of really dead looking plants in the front garden.
I’ve been looking forward to Spring and the possibilities of a garden since January and then the snow finally hit Maine and just. would. not. go. away. It lingered like a relative who doesn’t know he’s outstayed his welcome, borrowed too much money, and eaten all of your stockpile of junk food. And then he had two really wild parties two weekends in a row before taking off until next year — you know, he’ll stay away just long enough that we’ll forget how frustrated we were by this year’s visit.
By the time the snow had gone, I’d given up on gardening. My dreams of a vegetable garden and sunny afternoons planting flowers in the yard had somehow drifted away through the long days of staring at a plain white yard. I’d come to believe that there was nothing but snow underneath all that snow…and even when the snow had begun to melt away and grass began to peak through, it was only a taunt because another Nor’Easter would just cover it up with another 10 or 12 inches of more snow.
But finally after that horrible Nor’Easter April 15th - 17th when first the snow pounded the North East and then the rain and wind came with such intensity and timing that water was pouring down the outside of my chimney and seeping up through the foundation of my basement floor, suddenly Spring arrived, not with a whimper, but with a bang — the beginning of mud season.
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Tags: garden, flower, bloom, Winter, Spring, Nor\'Easter, crocus, daylily, daffodil, photo blogging
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April 24th, 2007
Quote of the Day: On Getting Back Youth
“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
– Oscar Wilde
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April 24th, 2007
Do You Know What You’re Putting In Your Mouth?
I know that there are some people who would call me a little hippy-dippy when the subject of food comes up. I mean, I’m a psuedo-vegetarian, who’s doctors have officially made it official, I shop organic and support local farming, I like yogurt and soy, I’ve spent quite a bit of time ranting about Mad Cow Disease and how little testing the U.S.A. actually does on it’s food supply, and last Summer I spent spent a lot of effort worrying about what gets put into my pets’ food.
I’m glad I worry about nutrition and health and not just my health but my loved ones’ health too.
I know, I know, some of you less compassionate people who don’t see pets as family members, are saying, but those 16 confirmed cat and dog deaths were just animal deaths and those thousands of sick cats and dogs? They weren’t people. It’s not like the screw-up affected people.
‘Cuz that wouldn’t happen.
Except remember the tainted peanut butter and then there was that spinach that was making everyone sick?
Are you ready for this?
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April 23rd, 2007
Quote of the Day: On Enemies
“The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.”
– Joseph Heller
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April 23rd, 2007
A Lazy Sunday
Pugly had a lazy Sunday yesterday.
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April 22nd, 2007
First Sunny Saturday of Spring
Yesterday was the first sunny Saturday of Spring after a month of false starts and Spring snow snowstorms and Nor’Easters. And while I admit that I understand that Winter came late and wanted to stick around awhile, my Seasonal Affective Disorder was really tired of it all, despite the lovely photographs I managed to take.
So, with Spring literally in the air, while my new neighbors were blowing the remnants of last Fall’s leaves into my yard, Pugly and I hopped in the Jeep and headed down to Portland to the Eastern Prom where everyone and their dog was out and about enjoying the day. Pugly and I took end the sights of the Eastern Prom Trail near East End Bench including The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad. Pugly saw the beach for the first time and got slapped in the face by a wave for the first time, much to his surprise. 
All in all, a great day.
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Tags: The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad, Eastern Prom, East End Beach, Portland, Maine, Spring, photo blogging, Pug
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April 20th, 2007
Site Spring Cleaning/Redesign/Upgrade Phase I Complete
Well, the Wordpress DB is upgraded to 2.1.3 and the plugin directory has been cleaned up. There are a lot less plugins in use now. My Flickr plugin stopped working so I need to figure another way to show off my new hobby.
I started redesigning the look of the site a little too. That should be evident in the new headers, which are all fractions of photos I’ve taken. I’ll be adding more and switching out some as I get bored. I’m working on a new color scheme, something a little more Spring/Summer-like.
I’ll be
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April 19th, 2007
More To Come
I’m just wanted to say I am planning on coming back on a more regular-like basis. I have a whole lot of opinions and things to work through.
However, behind the scenes here, the blog is a few versions behind and some of the scripts and plugins seem to not be working correctly anymore. So, I’m giving in and doing the upgrade to the latest version ofWordpress and as a result, dumping a lot of plugins because they don’t work with the new and improved Wordpress, and as a result, redesigning the blog — hopefully this will lead to
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April 10th, 2007
Don’t Feed The Crazy People
I’ve been meaning to stop by for weeks now and let everyone know that I’m alive and well.
(Ironically when I tried to stop by to leave a note, the server was down… grrrr)
Lots of changes going on around here, lots of stuff to deal with.
I’ve had my surgery now. It went very well. The surgeon said that my gallbladder was very inflamed and, of course, full of stones when they removed it (through my belly button — how?) and that I was
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