A Cat By Any Other Name

When we started planning to do a sister-only weekend, we all assumed we would all three be flying to wherever our destination might be. But when we finally settled on Reno, and I did an impromptu Mapquest query for driving directions it turned out it would take me a lot less time to just drive [...]

My younger sister and I suffer from difficulty sleeping in strange places, so by the time we got out of bed on Saturday we really hadn’t slept much at all the night before. But hey, no big deal! We were in Reno! There was coffee to be found. Also donuts! She and I went in [...]

I was awakened Sunday morning by my little sister poking me excitedly because she’d gone off in search of coffee and ended up winning a sizeable pile of dollars in a slot machine. We decided this meant that she apparently had the gambling skill (since neither my older sister or I managed to win much [...]

Another Friday Five, just for the heck of it. 1. What’s the last place you traveled to, outside your own home state/country? The last place I traveled was to Reno, which barely counts as out of state, since it’s just over the border of California. Amusingly, as I was driving there on Friday I somehow [...]

It felt so good to sleep in this morning. Or at least I assume it did. I didn’t get to sleep in much at all, since I was swarmed by cats. Amusingly it was much like bees, this swarm, due to the rather constant buzz of purring that accompanied them. They all wanted pets and [...]

I think that after last night, I should probably ban myself from going back to eBay for a rather long time. I have probably reserved far too much money in the last 24 hours, even though it’s my personal money and I’ve very carefully avoided touching the joint account out of which we have to [...]

Richard lost his Palm Pilot last week. The Palm Pilot that he just got a few months ago. The very expensive upgraded spiffy Palm m515. Wince. Sometime Monday evening of last week, he mentioned in a bit of a panic that he could not find it. He’d searched his car and his bag he totes [...]

When we got home yesterday there was a pallet sitting on the driveway (Long-time readers should recognize this phenomenon by now). This time, however, unlike the last few times, it was only one pallet – and it contained a fairly small (by comparison) pile of rocks. So when we got up this morning we went [...]

Today I woke up stiff and tired, and my legs ache from all the squatting and lifting and lugging that we did yesterday. I know it was only one ton of rocks – and I can say ‘only’ because building the wall took a few tons of rocks and all that dirt to fill that [...]

It took us about four hours to drive here. It was so hot the air conditioning in the car never really quite kicked in. We listened to CD’s of Prairie Home Companion joke shows and talked about random things – most of them having nothing whatsoever to do with work. El Capitan really is an [...]