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Jim and I just celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary with friends at a very nice dinner at the Inn at Little Washington . Back in 1977, a ...

I saw this in Norilana's LiveJournal and here are my results for the test: Your Score: Mr. Bennet You scored 50 Idealism, 5...

He was 73 and not in the best shape, so I can't say Jerry Fallwell's death was a surprise. I'll never forget the way he tried to...

A year ago today, we moved out of our old house and into the new house . I really enjoy living out here, love the relative quiet and cleane...

In an effort to get Pittsburgh to join the late 20th century, county council passed a law to ban smoking in most public places (especially r...

I've been listening to some of the Senate hearings involving people like Gonzales and reading some of the transcripts of the trial invol...

Is anyone else annoyed at seeing constant photos of the most recent mass murderer all over the media? The death video of murderers should no...

Yeah, I know, guns don't kill people, people kill people. Tell that to the 20(+?) dead at Virginia Tech and the other 20(+?) injured. Ho...

There's been various...um, discussions in various places about how writers should/should not promote their work, mostly centering around...

We had our deck built by Archadeck , locally represented by Hall Construction: We'd talked to several different deck builders, but Archa...

One of the two builders got sick today. so the deck wasn't quite finished today. However, it's very close! So tomorrow, it should b...

OK, so I'm a day late... Anyway, the contractors came over for a little while on Saturday, trimmed the floor planks and started to put i...

It was again very cold out for April - I think it didn't get any warmer than 35 (over 20 degrees colder than normal). It wasn't qui...

It was windy and 25 degrees colder than normal today. It reached a high of 31 (and, remember, it's April ). The contractors came and w...

The builders arrived early this morning and worked until about 4. Unlike yesterday, when it was sunny and warm, the temperature dropped fro...

The contractor started on the deck today! We didn't expect they'd start this soon (we thought it might be another 10 days), but I w...

We had a few days of good weather over the last week, followed by some rain. The crocuses and dafodils in front haven't grown quite as w...

Best Novel Eifelheim by Michael F. Flynn (Tor) His Majecty's Dragon / Temeraire by Naomi Novik (Del Rey) Glasshouse by Charles Stross...

Over time, I've seen Friday cat blogging, kid blogging, et.c. But there doesn't seem Monday Garden Blogging. For employed people, i...

When we moved out to the metro West area last summer, one small plus was being close to another Rotelli Pizza (in the Target Plaza at the Po...