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Archive for March, 2009

Kitty (and people)

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Every morning she climbs up on me and ritually sneezes in my face.  This is, according to the lad I got her from, pretty normal. She is struggling less and less when I brush her; when she’s about as relaxed as I can expect, I’ll bathe her. Jeff has made me swear a mighty oath [...]

Dunno why the Atlantic Monthly thinks it’s May

Monday, March 30th, 2009

… but here’s an interesting article about the oligarchy in the US….   Oh, and by the way, it’s no better in Canada in terms of it being an oligarchy, it’s just the banks are better funded.

Let me knock you out of your comfort zone

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Cause I am good like that. How ‘socially distinct’ team members help with decision making.

Miss Margot is musical

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Here she provides editorial comments as I try – for the umpteenth berloody time – to get “The Evening News” into Songwriter.  I think it’s wonderful she caught me working instead of putzing around on reddit.com.

If I had a buck for every time it happened

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

I’m on a date with my new friend … I took him to Horizons.  We’re walking around in the garden behind the restaurant and my cell phone rings. It’s Katie.  “What’s the name of that song by that German woman that was on that album?” “What, “Wir Leben Immer Noch”? I say. “Yeah, how do [...]

More Miss Margot

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

Keith here again

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Miss Margot is very lethargic after her boosters.  The injection locations are very tender and so we left her alone except to encourage her to eat and drink. Watched the concert movie of Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris…. very tasty.  My new friend turned me on to that. It was lovely to see Keith. Unless [...]

Paul and Keith here for dinner

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Miss Margot got her booster shots last night, and I got grooming aids.  For the cat of course, I’ve more or less given up on me.

Adventures in driving

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

For those interested, I’ve resumed posting on my driving blog, with today’s post reflecting on an event from this afternoon’s jaunt. Here’s a link to the blog: Driving Me Crazy

This is either child abuse or crocodile abuse. Vote now!

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9810/09/fringe/australia.crocs/

The laundry list

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Woke up at 2. Eddie crying in my room again, but this time he let me pet him for about half an hour. Could not for the life of me go back to sleep. Did not want to go to work.  So…. tired…. Another commute to work in the drear rain, which magically transmuted to [...]

I can haz buckit – warning! disturbingly cute.

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

So many balloons are going up, there’s no room for the sky

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

China wants a new global currency.

Katie meets the new beast

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

I think Katie was a little taken aback at just how flat Miss Margot’s face is, but she was charmed nevertheless.  Jeff, Paul, Keith, Kate and I watched the last two episodes of Planet Earth (in High Def, did I mention that part?) and I fed everybody spaghetti and Jeff bought Mayan Chocolate ice cream [...]

The market collapse

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

When I was so small I was practically transparent, my father first spoke to me about short selling.  It’s about how you take a bet, preferably with somebody else’s money, that a stock price is going to drop.  The first time pOp explained it to me I thought it was the stupidest thing I had [...]

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