Words of One Syllable Dept.I think I’ve heard this one before…
SWEET HOME, Ore. — An Oregon woman who is out $400,000 after falling for a well-known Internet scam says she wasn’t a sucker or an easy mark.
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Copyright © 2008 white read more.. A busy weekend, and now snowThe weekend was busy. On Saturday night, we hosted a benefit for the Mercantile Library at which David Baldacci spoke. He gave a very excellent talk, and everybody went away happy.
One thing that I remember him talking about in his speech, in answer to a question from the audience, was that the way we can read more.. Links for 2008-11-14 [del.icio.us]Links for 2008-11-12 [del.icio.us]The dentist keeps me from writingI had a visit to the dentist today, to get a temporary crown put in while they make the permanent crown. I am only now getting my brain back together after the painkillers wore off. Not much writing to be done today.
I am not sure what to do with my project for NaNoWriMo… read more.. qotd 2The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one’s ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.
— E. F. Shumacher
Copyright © 2008 white pebble. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are read more.. qotdOf course, this leaves me with a whole ‘nother set of questions…
My Living Will
Last night, C and I were sitting in the family room and I said to her, ‘I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug.’
She read more.. NaNoWriMo takes overEven if you were to ask me, and no, this isn’t a covert fishing expedition for compliments on my writing, I would not show you what I am working on for NaNoWriMo. It’s just a great pile of stuff. I am putting down memories of my family so that Peter can have them. Peter, as read more.. Links for 2008-11-09 [del.icio.us]Post-election postThe election is finally over, and not a minute too soon for me. Whichever way one voted, there was a lot of collective angst to deal with.
I dealt with it, mostly subconsciously, by sending all of the aforementioned angst to my stomach. As a result, I am now gnawing on my usual handful read more.. Links for 2008-11-06 [del.icio.us]Furious at writingToday, I am at Lookout Joe’s, trying furiously to catch up to my appropriate daily word-count.
Shirl has zoomed right on by me; my only excuse, however lame, is one that calls upon the principles of celestial dynamics: Shirl lives farther to the north than I do, and so her nights are longer. I’m read more.. qotd
Culture is everything we don’t have to do.
— Brian Eno
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The good thing about its being Election Day: one is never at read more.. Links for 2008-11-02 [del.icio.us]Links for 2008-11-01 [del.icio.us]Links for 2008-10-31 [del.icio.us]
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