Magpie

Ah … the joys of condo-ownership.
This morning, after a late-for-work rushed shower, I had an unpleasant surprise. The carpet in the hallway was “squishy” … and sopping wet. It wasn’t that way at 6 AM, according to Jon. I didn’t relish the uncomfortable truth of the situation; but there was no use delaying the inevitable. […]

I am The Lovers
Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse.
The Lovers represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made.

Originally, this card was called just LOVE. And that’s actually more apt than “Lovers.” Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about […]

Chili cook-off tonight at the Bolt (in Sacramento).
Be there or be square!
K

Well, it’s a new year, and it was time for a new theme.
What else?

I’m not going to beat myself up over not writing more.
I want to learn a new language … something exotic … like Turkish or Vietnamese
I’m not going to beat myself up over not having the patience to sit down and learn a […]

I posted a comment on Joe’s blog responding to a simple question: Who’s got Vista?
I declined to answer over there, but if you guess right, I can offer you a nice, shiny Gmail invitation. After all, we’re all friends, right?
The options I listed over there are:

BeOS?
FreeBSD?
Linux?
Mac OS?

And if this is your guess, which version?

Windows?

Same question

More […]

Pink for October is a way to promote awareness that October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month.
I’m not very graphically inclined, so I decided to use the Pink Beauty theme, which is available on the WordPress Theme viewer.
Who says a man can’t wear pink?

Following up on an auto-intellectual experience …

An excellent example, from the UK
Tips for struggling with …
A Google search, for even more references

Tee-hee … I do that a lot … but the first one is rather over-the-top. I wonder if the author is serious, or just tongue-in-cheek.

Hey, they did it first!
Unfortunately Kurtis and Brian don’t allow me to test the wireless mice out of fear that the deadly radiation they emit might set off my asthma. Um, radio waves? We’d better get out the tin-foil chemise–and while we’re at it, the tin-foil chapeau. Stunning!
Unfortunately, Kurtis will not start the race due […]

I have this wonderful blog … and I hardly do anything with it.
I would resolve to write more, but we all know what happens to resolutions …
I guess I’m too busy being a magpie to settle down to write. How do you deal with it?

Seems just a short time ago that Sacramento was sweltering in hot, hot hot!
Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?
Edit, March ‘06: Un-Textiled.