A Cat By Any Other Name

In honor of Labor Day Richard and I did our very best to do nothing remotely productive all day. We actually were succeeding pretty admirably, having lounged around in our pajamas until lunchtime, when I couldn’t stand it any longer. So we got dressed and ate lunch and then headed off to pick out three [...]

I’ve talked before about the fact that our office has no sound insulation and how annoying it is, but bear with me, because I’m going to talk about it again. What can I say, with the recent construction in the next-door office it’s been on my mind a lot. Today the construction wasn’t as bad [...]

Today my boss and I ended up doing a little research project, trying to find information about, among other things, the ecological footprint of buildings. It was one of those incredible fun yet frustrating research projects because I end up finding all manner of sites chock full of information that have very little to do [...]

Bad news, I’m afraid. The invisible pocketknife – the knife that has successfully passed under the not-so-watchful eyes of the airport security in at least a dozen flights around this country – this knife is no more. Apparently the security personnel at the courthouse in Fairfield are far more observant, or else their x-ray machinery [...]

Another Friday Five. What housekeeping chore(s) do you hate doing the most? At first thought it’s easy to say that I despise all chores equally. But I think the reality is that I despise the thought of chores, and once I actually get myself motivated enough to do what needs to be done, it usually [...]

Today Richard and I went to the zoo. The main reason was to see lemurs, but also it’s been a very long time since either of us has been to a zoo, and I’ve never been to the one in San Francisco. We headed out bright and early in order to get a decent parking [...]

Rebecca is getting old; has been losing weight for quite some time now. Last year I wrote about trying to trick her into eating more, in an attempt to get her to regain some weight after the yearly vet exam showed how much more she lost But last year I didn’t spend too much time [...]

Considering my feelings on religion and on god and everything to do with either, I would never have expected to be so excited about getting involved in a Bible study. After all, despite my best efforts I have never been able to understand the whole concept of faith, nor have I ever been able to [...]

These past few weeks I have felt a bit scattered. Not necessarily a bad thing, this feeling, although I’ll admit it’s been bad for this journal. There are so many little things I think I should write about, like how I got at least four inches hacked off of my hair and not one single [...]

While in graduate school, years and years ago, I worked as Managing Editor for a nutrition research journal. It was an interesting job, if only because it was really just the two of us running that journal. I had my own room and my own computer in the back of the house and I got [...]