Archive for September, 2003
Tuesday, September 30th, 2003
To Strive For Clarity
Creatures that exist with a specific clarity of purpose comfort me. Often our paths cross on days like yesterday when I have an unknown need to meet them. During a tumultuous and frustrating day my errands chanced to bring me into contact with a Writing Spider. Most people, spying a three to four inch spider [...]
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Monday, September 29th, 2003
Web Work Follow-up
Thanks to Fred for the spider ID. (See entry below.) They really are handsome creatures. I found this site with many photos that are much more clear than my own.
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Monday, September 29th, 2003
Web Work
Now this is what I call real web work. I had to deliver some invoices this afternoon and when I came out of one office the sun hit this web and the monster spider at its center but it was the zig-zag central pattern that really caught my eye. Anyone know what’s up with that? [...]
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Saturday, September 27th, 2003
Al Passed Away
On September 5, I wrote about Al sitting on his front porch. They found him dead last night on the floor of his bedroom. He’s one of those 1,800 World War II vets who die every day. There’s another B-25 pilot up there in the Where Ever now and Al, if you see my Papa, [...]
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Friday, September 26th, 2003
Grazing in Another Pasture
7 p.m., random musings from the coffee shop at the bookstore
When my cell phone rang yesterday and the caller ID displayed the name of a local professional association where I used to teach classes on the use of various bits of software, I wasn’t all that surprised. Like an errant stray cat they’ve often gone [...]
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Friday, September 26th, 2003
Bogged Down With Work
Just a note to say all is well but I’m bogged down with a 105-page website that was dumped in the lap of a young lady who has never done web work before. Her boss is an old client of mine, a professional association that told me they didn’t need me anymore, and the first [...]
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Thursday, September 25th, 2003
Adventures in Darmok
Last night we hosted Movie Group and had a full house for the first time in several weeks. I’d decided to do a baked potato bar with huge Russets courtesy of Central Market and the idea seemed to go over in a big way. In addition to the traditional grated cheese, green onions, butter and [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2003
The Death of An Educated Cowboy
Telegrams used to be the purveyors of bad news. During World War II women dreaded the visit from an officer and a chaplain. Now, we have ill tidings coming from so many sources we’ve developed a thick skin, impervious to the sound bite and the film clip. Yesterday during breakfast I sat reading blogs and [...]
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003
By Request
By request, here’s a shot of the cock’s combs I talked about in this morning’s entry. As you can see, the ones I bought are pretty puny but the one from seed is a big strapping fellow with an attitude.
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003
Been Carving Again
R. liked my cloaked angels so much she asked me to do a figure without wings. Here’s the result. She’s about 8 inches high. The stone is a deep jade green but it’s very hard to photograph. This was the best of about two dozen shots.
