WordOfWarning: nevernevernever delete database files if you’re not 110% sure they’re not being used. I decided to be smart and do a personal backup of my site (since I had been lazy and hadn’t been doing that). I was “cleaning up” my site files before doing the backup and accidentally deleted the wrong file. [...]
Mallard Landing, City Park, New Orleans, LA, 2008-Jun-01
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I went to City Park here in New Orleans the other day, hoping to find some birds to photograph although it was near mid-day and not really the time for birds. There were still a few though, so I got lucky. [...]
Ooh, I know you’re surprised to hear the crayons melted.
And what it looked under the box:
I didn’t plan for it much except to put a sheet of folded paper under them (a legal size normal-paper brochure), which wasn’t enough. This is the wax under the brochure:
The paper did absorb a lot [...]
Just how hot does it get here? New Orleans is HOT and muggy…. the other afternoon I had purchased an iced tea. I forgot to take the cup out of my car, and the next day it sat in the cup holder for a few hours. My car sits in a parking [...]
Blair writes:
AFI Top 100 U.S. Films
June 24th, 2007
I don’t often play along with the memes (If everyone’s posting the same stuff, how can it be interesting?) but just this once…
I’m somewhat surprised at how many of these I’ve seen. Friends may be surprised at how many of the ones I’ve seen are not Science Fiction.
The [...]
“To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship.”
–Thomas Moore
Thanks to all my friends for making life worthwhile. I appreciate you more than you know.
A couple of weeks ago I chose to have one of my cats euthanized. Such a loaded word… and yet it hardly conveys the struggle. Chloe was nearly 12 and I had had her since she was weaned. Unfortunately, she had recurring issues with constipation. Basically, everything worked great except her intestines; she’d [...]
As some of you know, I’m studying for a personal training certification (yep, big, BIG career change). For any of the major certifications, you can’t even get your test results back unless you are CPR certified. I knew CPR, but it had been a while (probably 6 or 7 years), and I never [...]
About a week ago I was in the parking lot at work. I had started the car, and happened to glance at the side view mirror just as a bee landed on it. The bee was completely loaded up with pollen, stuffed like saddlebags on its hind legs. This was taken through [...]
“Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”
- Alan W. Watts