Friday the 13th

So, my morning started pretty ok.  DH got to sleep in because the base was on delayed start due to flooding and power outages from the nor’easter.  The public schools are all closed again (same reason), but that doesn’t affect us; homeschool would happen as normal.  After a bit of sleeping in because of the [...]

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Go Navy! (take two)

*gleeful snicker*
Ok, if you don’t know what happened: Navy, for some unfathomable reason (likely national exposure and/or TV revenues), travelled to Ohio to (presumably) get beat up by the Buckeyes.
Which shows how much attention I’ve paid to Navy football lately, except for the annual Army-Navy game.  (Beat Army!)
To put it in a nutshell, Navy didn’t [...]

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Summer

Slow, sodden spring yields,
To sticky, sweaty summer.
Yard, you’re on your own,
 
Cheerfully weeded
Just while weather amnesia
Lingered in light breeze.
 
AC’s siren song
Whirs, “You, neither mad dog nor
Englishman; stay in!”
 
(No offense to the English; the phrase is, “Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun!”  Probably said somewhere in the tropics, where some Englishmen were reportedly more concerned [...]

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How health care rumors get started…

So, we were all just in the door from an hour of high-velocity fun at the local park.  I had an hour of peace and quiet, sitting at a bench in the shade, reading A Medieval Home Companion: Housekeeping in the Fourteenth Century.  The kids tore around the park, chasing birds and other kids.  Needless to [...]

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Brief on the Homeschooler Conference

Very brief, in fact.  I’m still tired.  I didn’t even manage to get this done last night.  I meant to blog about the conference, really; I even hauled along my computer.  But getting back to my room after 9pm, after getting up at 5:30 am to drive almost four hours up to Washington, DC for [...]

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I should be smarter than this by now…

… but I’m not, which is why you get this humorous blog post tonight.
Tricia called to say she was at the little beach on her neighborhood lake, inviting us over.  After a lengthy discussion with Oldest of secession, Lincoln, states’ rights, federalism, responsibility to people you know vs. faceless bureaucrats half a country away, and [...]

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I am the Borg Queen

If you’re a Star Trek fan, you’re probably trying to figure out what the heck I mean, since I do not have tubes coming out of my head, nor do I wear a skin tight leather suit.
And if you’re not a Trekkie, well, I’ll try to explain briefly.
In the movie First Contact, Data (an android [...]

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LOL funny

Dear Husband has suggested that I sounded… um… a *little* stressed lately, and would I like to go out tonight?  Not having anywhere particular to go, but never one to pass up the rare opportunity to have a few hours to myself on occasion, I am sitting in a local coffee shop (as their signs say, [...]

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Why I don’t Twitter

I know some people like Twitter, but I’m personally avoiding it.  It wouldn’t be good.  What my Twittering would probably look like:
12:05 am  Going to bed.
12:22 am  No, really, I mean it.  Right after I fold this basket of cloth diapers.
12:40 am  Going to bed.  Did I say that already?
1:15 am  Just read this great [...]

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Please tell me this is a joke…

An iPod.
You’re joking, right?  This is a broadcast news April Fool’s, right?  NO?!?!
An iPod?!?!?
The president of the United States gave the Queen of England a flipping iPod?!?!?
As if the “reset” button that actually said “overcharge” you gifted the Russians with wasn’t enough.
As if the 25 DVD set of “classic” American movies to the British PM [...]

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