Wherein I ponder, rant, rave or babble semi-coherently on the nature of life, the universe and everything (and here there be memes)

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Toilets

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Automatically flushing toilets. Ok, I can see the point. But do they have to flush THREE times while I’m sitting there?
That is all. Carry on.

Comics

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Over on that’s my answer today, one of Indigo’s questions was “What’s your favorite comic strip?” My first thought was, “Yay! Fun question!” My subsequent thoughts were all to the tune of, “How the heck can I pick A favorite?”
I mean, there’s Doonesbury with wicked political [...]

Act Your Age!

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Or apparently not, in my case. I’ve always maintained that I didn’t feel as old as my drivers license claims I am. According to this quiz, it’s worse than I thought… I thought I was 30-something. This is a pretty darn [...]

The War on Terror

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…has taken a left turn somewhere. We’ve turned into the kind of people we shouldn’t want to be when we start treating American citizens like terrorists simply because of their heritage.
Ramak Fazel had a fabulous idea. He’d do something with his [...]

Thinking Warm Thoughts

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a meme from Five on Fridays…
1. What is your favorite hot beverage? Chai. Used to be, I thought the idea of putting milk in tea was totally horrifying. In an EWWWWW kind of way. But once I tried it, I was [...]

5 Book Meme

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I’m finding there are some of these that are really fun! This one is called the 5-Book Meme, where you grab a sentence from each of five books and turn them into a paragraph. Here’s my paragraph:
The back of the table captain’s [...]

105

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Picked this one up from Kwizgiver, who swiped it from Cat. And for the record, I also made a post on my art blog, too.
1. EVER BEEN GIVEN AN ENGAGEMENT RING? yes
2. LONGEST RELATIONSHIP? nine and a half years and counting
3. LAST GIFT YOU RECEIVED? [...]

My New Years Resolutions

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Psych!
I don’t make resolutions any more. Why bother? It’s a set up for a let down, if you ask me. Why say I’m going to exercise every day, when I know I’m not going to go out of my way [...]