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{ Yearly Archives } 2008

Miscellaneous Stuff, I Guess.

I really wish I were better at long-term planning. A lot of the yard work I have to do could have been done in the fall or in Spring, instead of staring me in the face now shouting the accusation, “You have the sloppiest yard in the neighborhood! Everyone with nice yards hates what you’re [...]

The Power of Prayer. . .

Not too long ago, I passed on a story about a young girl who died because her parents were treating her diabetes with prayer. A different church attempted the same thing with young Ava Worthington, with equal success, and now Ava’s cousin has had the same results. Fortunately, Oregon, unlike Wisconsin, has laws that hold [...]

Congo Attacks Again

Why did this have to happen? I am not a fan of euthanizing animals, even when it’s the alternative to a protracted, painful death (a mercy, but I still feel bad), but an animal that’s dangerous and hasn’t been controlled by its owners shouldn’t be allowed to live. Now Congo, his mate Lucia, and offspring [...]

I Hate All Kinds of Marketing. . .

I was going to make this a pretty simple post, with just a couple of pictures and comments, but it took a while to get into my admin section of wordpress. . .because some shithead spammer hacked in and managed to post a link to his fake pharma site. It put a whole bunch of [...]

Smart Carpet on Notice. . .

Not quite 10 months ago, I was so excited to have new floors. It was about January I started to notice the dark lines between the flooring panels. I went to a local floor place to see whether there was a product that would safely fill the gaps in my laminate floor, and was given [...]

Sometimes. . .

it’s so hard to be nice. Yes, I’m a really nice person, sometimes disgustingly so, but I’m only human. I need to blow off steam just like anyone else, but that side usually comes out only in front of friends (who can forgive me) or on the internet (where it’s de rigeur and hardly noticed.) [...]

Finding Your Cat

I’ve been inspired by Dave’s return to start a Yahoo group for reuniting cats with their families. I don’t know if it’ll take off, or even help, but I hope people will have at least a few good results from it. Here’s the link: Ocean County Cats Lost and Found I think I’ll write a [...]

Dave is Back!

Pics and updates tomorrow, after we get him checked at the vet. We got a call from a woman who lives far enough away that we suspect that he was trapped and released, but he still had his collar on, and she finally got him to come close enough so she could read the tag. [...]

As Usual,

Rather than actually blog about all the things that have kept me too busy to blog, I will provide you with an amusing video link: glumbert – Engineer’s Guide to Cats Enjoy! I’ll catch up later!

Miles and Spencer

That’s actually Spencer in the back, Miles in the front. It’s difficult to tell them apart just from looking. Spencer is smaller, has a shorter nose and smaller eyes than Miles, but without his brother next to him, you have nothing to compare to! The real way to tell is by calling their names and [...]