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::shrug::
Not been the best of months for me. Been down with an injury since 11 December, only just now starting to recover, enduring physical therapy, blah blah blah. Lot of time to think. As you might surmise, there’s a certain twinge of “not good” in the statement, but on the whole, I’m doing okay.
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So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
Ans so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
War is over
If you want it
War is over now
–John Lennon
This [...]

I just got enough parts together to get Uncle Crimbo to make me a Sock Monkey! Poopie is now in the game with me! Schweeeeeeet! Dunt dada dunt dada dunt dada dada! 1eleventyone11!

I’ve been flat on my back since Monday, drifting in and out on waves of muscle-relaxent induced exhaustion. My ghod, it’s been years since I was this rested. It’s such a shame that my movement is so restricted just now; imagine what I could have accomplished with all this time adrift from daily responsibilities! Instead, [...]

I’m still a little sleepy bleary this morning; not that I was up heinously late, but I expended huge amounts of energy for Boar’s Head.
This was the most fun I’ve had at Boar’s Head in a very long time, and I’m sure that part of it was because I decided to sponsor an A&S contest. [...]

So, I spent some time last night in taking care of some Boar’s Head A&S correspondence, which included a call for performance notifications.
One of the letters I got back said: Merouda, you adore A&S and you work hard for A&S, why don’t you apply for the Kingdom MOAS?
This was my mind, upon reading [...]

I’m not sure why, but today I have been looking for old works. Something prompted me to start a resume regarding creative works, and this pushed me into some internet research that lead me on an unexpected journey.
My eyes nearly popped out of my head when I found the above piece on the web. It’s [...]

Teaching Thanksgiving.
“Today is a time of celebrating for you — a time of looking back to the first days of white people in America. But it is not a time of celebrating for me. It is with a heavy heart that I look back upon what happened to my People. When the Pilgrims arrived, we, [...]

My blog is worth $1,129.08.How much is your blog worth?

I predict I shan’t be selling this anytime soon. My dead journal over on spaces.msn is worth more ($14,113.50). How sad is that?
I hereby swear to myself that I’ll write something with content over the weekend.

Oh, please, kill me.
They’ve preempted West Wing with a remake of The Poseidon Adventure?
Gah, why didn’t they leave that turd at the bottom of the sea where it belongs?

Today may be the last of the Indian Summer, for tonight’s forecast is the first containing snow.
I stood in the cold drizzle, trying to get the pumpkins to hang in some way that would show them to advantage, the water saturating my clothing in the sly way of light rain: unnoticed until one is chilled [...]

Michael just came home from WindyCon. I was soooo happy to see him.
And when he came home, this AMAZING thing happened.
The heat came on!
Yes siree, Bob, the heat was off all day yesterday and I did not even realize it. d00d, Mr. Michael is a wonder man.

For One Student, a College Career Becomes a Career - New York Times
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Well, I lived in Fort Atkinson, exactly 7 miles from UW-Whitewater, from, oh 1993-1997. And good luck with the marketers who think they’re going to get an “Animal House” reality show outta that [...]

Lately, I’ve been pursuing still life photography as a method of recording the ordinary, and of recording the light. One of the problems with computer photography is, of course, the different ways in which an image will display on different monitors.
I have a number of pictures like this, now, images that strike most people as [...]

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