Archive for November, 2004
Monday, November 29th, 2004
Guilty Pleasures
A cold front blew in this afternoon giving us leaden skies and dropping temperatures. On afternoons like this R. and I tend to plant ourselves at the kitchen table, she lazily reading through the newspaper, me working on the laptop. Today I started a Laurell K. Hamilton book I hadn’t gotten around to, Cerulean Sins.
As [...]
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Sunday, November 28th, 2004
The Wind and the Water
Yesterday morning Missy J., the Wookie and I went down to the river in theory to search for a geocache that eluded us a couple of weeks ago. However, about 25 steps down the path straight into a gusty north wind and in deference to Missy J.’s allergy induced bronchitis, we instead opted to descend [...]
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Saturday, November 27th, 2004
Haulin’
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Gotta make like this duck and haul it into the kitchen to get ready for the Movie Group Thanksgiving Dinner tonight. Just wanted to share this shot from a morning photo excursion with the Wookie. I have a goal of getting a really good inflight duck image. This one tells me [...]
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Friday, November 26th, 2004
Anniversary 2004
Saturday marks the two-year “official” anniversary of Notes From An Eclectic Mind. This will be the 974th post with more than 1400 comments. Last year I figured I’d already exceeded half a million words and I wouldn’t even attempt a count now. I’m writing about this milestone a day early, in the waning hours of [...]
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Thursday, November 25th, 2004
From the Cuckoo’s Nest
In the Universe’s ongoing theme of “Let’s Screw Around With Rana,” I got to deal with a crazy woman today (well, yesterday actually). Now I don’t just mean someone mildly eccentric or offbeat and delightful, I mean bona fide bonkers. Yep, the police brought our next-door neighbor C. home in a cruiser and A., her [...]
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004
48 Hours
Well, here I sit at the end of a long day, the second long day, actually. I went to bed after 3 a.m. the last two nights dealing with a crashed laptop. Normalcy has been re-established and will even be paid for in about fourteen months with no interest. Sigh. R. just doesn’t know what [...]
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Sunday, November 21st, 2004
Sunday Morning Report
First off, thanks to everyone for their help with research. I have contacted a friend at Texas A & M and there are some possibilities there. I don’t want to go into details and jinx us, but add, “letting the Aggie thing work out” to your list of good thoughts. We also have some experimental [...]
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Friday, November 19th, 2004
Calling All Nerds!
Okay gang, I need your help. Dr. Susan has given us something to do to help Riff that we can manage — research the Internet.
We want as much information as possible on anything that anyone has ever done that has helped a cat with Riff’s condition. As I told my friend Beth, “If dancing naked [...]
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Friday, November 19th, 2004
The Sun Came Up
After a night of many tears, the sun came up and today we go back to Plan A: nobody gives up on Riff and nobody says anything negative in his presence. All he needs to know is that he’s wonderful and lots of folks are working to make it “better” either by their actions or [...]
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Thursday, November 18th, 2004
Not So Good
You’ll never know how much I hate to be returning so soon with news that isn’t good. The biopsy was not that for which we’d hoped. We’re looking at treatment options. I’m numb right now and can’t say much but you’ve all been so kind to post comments and email I thought you all should [...]
