by CJ | Oct 11, 2010 | Journal
One, surrounded by weeds and brush, about 3 blocks from us, is a real doozie. It started out with nightly arrests for drunkenness, theft, and vandalism. Sometimes 4 incidents every 24 hours. Now it has graduated to ‘domestic violence’ and theft,...
by CJ | Oct 10, 2010 | Journal
…are suggesting that cursive writing be dropped from the curriculum. a) it’s the foundation of the ability to sketch and manipulate graphics and styli, a damned interesting choice in the computer age. b) it enables us to sign our names distinctively. c)...
by CJ | Oct 10, 2010 | Journal
It’s usually nippy by this time of year, but it’s holding on warm. We’re getting down to 33 Tuesday night next, but then it’ll warm up to 44 at night. So it’s coming, but none of the trees have turned. I’m spending my evenings...
by CJ | Oct 9, 2010 | Journal
We’re not great cellphone users. We use ours for echo-location in huge stores, at the state fair, or when otherwise lost from each other. We occasionally use it for a call when traveling. For this, we’ve been billed 80.00 a month for the pair of us. Lynn...
by CJ | Oct 9, 2010 | Journal
This from Lynn. Excuse the commercial: it’s beautiful. You can only wonder how fast they’d be without lugging the camera and the wind...
by CJ | Oct 7, 2010 | Journal
…which caused a bundle of screwups. If this should happen to you, there are several things to note: a) Paypal’s advisory page sounds as if it was written by someone not a native English speaker—and if this happens and you need your download asap,...
by CJ | Oct 7, 2010 | Journal
…which caused a bundle of screwups. If this should happen to you, there are several things to note: a) Paypal’s advisory page sounds as if it was written by someone not a native English speaker—and if this happens and you need your download asap,...
by CJ | Oct 6, 2010 | Journal
…surprising, since we’re eating an amazing lot. The best deal is that veggie salad that goes with dinner (a light slightly spicy cold crunch—the balsamic vinegar sort of does an instant-mild-pickle number on the cucumber, so it has a very nice...
by CJ | Oct 5, 2010 | Journal
The diet was a success yesterday: a LOT of work. But I can see where it’ll get less as I get used to the style of cooking. The unexpected success was the salad/cold veggie. That involves a big cucumber and three radishes and a bell pepper, sliced paper thin,...
by CJ | Oct 5, 2010 | Journal
The diet was a success yesterday: a LOT of work. But I can see where it’ll get less as I get used to the style of cooking. The unexpected success was the salad/cold veggie. That involves a big cucumber and three radishes and a bell pepper, sliced paper thin,...
by CJ | Oct 4, 2010 | Journal
I think our second summer is over. The temperatures are falling, and more to the point, we’re settling into more frequent rains, which means the wind has shifted from south to northwest, and once the weather starts rolling in from Vancouver, BC, and from off the...
by CJ | Oct 4, 2010 | Journal
I think our second summer is over. The temperatures are falling, and more to the point, we’re settling into more frequent rains, which means the wind has shifted from south to northwest, and once the weather starts rolling in from Vancouver, BC, and from off the...
