Person 1: Who’s funeral are you going to?
Person 2: My dad’s.
Person 1: Did he die?
Person 2: Yes
I’m glad I’m not the only person who asks silly questions.
Archive for February, 2008
Conversations Overheard
21Feb08let them eat cake!
20Feb08Today, at work, I listened to Kim by Rudyard Kipling. It’s too early to tell but at this point I think it likely that this will become one of my all time favorite novels.
After work, Zach and I baked Snickerdoodle cookies and Maddie and I made a scratch cake.
Trebonte’s game
19Feb08The rules of this game: Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!) Find Page 123. Find the first 5 sentences. Post the next 3 sentences.
"I barely remember it," Glenda Ruth […]
Stasis
19Feb08Not much has changed in my life in the last week or two. I’m still working at the same job, engaging in the same hobbies and looking for a better job.
Today, I listened to P.G. Wodehouse’s Uncle Dynamite on tape. Like all of Wodehouse’s work which I have so far read it was clever, […]
Windows Live Writer
17Feb08I’m giving the newest version of Windows Live Writer a try. For more than a year, I’ve been using the beta version of this software and now I have finally upgraded to the current offering. This is my first post using it. I’ll let you know what I think after I’ve used it for awhile.
Some […]
goodbye facebook
12Feb08In my fledgling effort to purge the fat from time utilization, I’ve deactivated my Facebook account. Along with canceling a slew of email invites and deleting most of the feeds from my RSS reader, I hope the abandonment of Facebook will provide fewer opportunities for me to waste time and procrastinate. It should also help […]
Baking
09Feb08Much to my surprise, I am finding that even after doing it regularly for a couple of weeks, I still enjoy baking. Perseverence has never been a virtue that I’ve possessed in any great quantity. I am the sort of person that starts out to learn new skills, or accomplish grand projects but loses interest […]
January reading list
05Feb08I did a fair bit of reading last month, stacking up a total of 15 finished books as follows:
Dragon and Judge - Timothy Zahn
The Dragon and the George - Gordon R. Dickson
First Meetings - Orson Scott Card
Time Traders - Andre Norton
The White Company - Arthur Conan Doyle
Sharpe’s Rifles - Bernard Cornwell
A Princess of Mars - […]
