Lost my glasses. Quel pain!

by | Dec 16, 2014 | Journal

I can get by most places with store-boughts; but for editing and computer work—I need something better; and plastic lenses weren’t cutting it anyway. Plus I’m not that happy with the prescription. So..I changed optometrists and went to Costco’s...

Rearranging the furniture…Rubik's Cube.

by | Dec 9, 2014 | Journal

You’d be surprised at the dustbunnies you find… I thought there was only one way to arrange this room. Then I had a bit of an inspiration—at least to get a way to get to the upper left corner without edging sideways. And it went pretty easily. The...

Rearranging the furniture…Rubik’s Cube.

by | Dec 9, 2014 | Journal

You’d be surprised at the dustbunnies you find… I thought there was only one way to arrange this room. Then I had a bit of an inspiration—at least to get a way to get to the upper left corner without edging sideways. And it went pretty easily. The...

Temporal Lobe Epilepsy…as the cause of Tut's demise.

by | Dec 8, 2014 | Journal

Explaining his grandfather’s vision of the sphinx telling him he would be pharoah…his father’s vision of the new Sun god Aton, Tut’s conversion back to the old religion, his wider-than-normal hip structure, his early death, and leg...

Temporal Lobe Epilepsy…as the cause of Tut’s demise.

by | Dec 8, 2014 | Journal

Explaining his grandfather’s vision of the sphinx telling him he would be pharoah…his father’s vision of the new Sun god Aton, Tut’s conversion back to the old religion, his wider-than-normal hip structure, his early death, and leg...

Damselfish and clownfish—different suits, same fish.

by | Dec 5, 2014 | Journal

I set up my 102 gallon as a damsel tank: I love their color and fast movement. I traded off most of my corals during the change from my 54 gallon (which is now a freshwater) to the 102—and I’m trying to get the corals built back up. Now, corals once happy...

The popularity of Ancestry…

by | Dec 4, 2014 | Journal

,..is attracting a raft of naive folk, love ’em, but… Columbus sailed the ocean blue In fourteen hundred ninety-two. Therefore the presence of a European in a place called Illinois in 1300 is quite remarkable. And the likelihood that he is a citizen of the...