Author: Allegra
Born when atmospheric carbon was 316 PPM. Settled on MST country since 1997. Parent, grandparent.
rattling around
House shure feels empty.
Meadow came to say goodbye yesterday. The moving truck came and went and it’s been powerfully quiet, so I am assuming that’s the last I’ll see of that little dog. I kept a bunch of dried meat snackies around for her and she hoovered them back with every sign of joy. (I know I should not have and she gets fed at home…) The cats ignored her.
Well, I have to shower and power out of here. Everybody have a good day!
Is it Live, Memory, Hallucination or something entirely different?
It ain’t what you think you remember that hurts you, it’s what you remember that just isn’t fracking true.
All the women who read this blog
Throw back your heads and laugh. Or hang your head and cry – the choice is yours.
I am having the single worst day at work in about 5 years.
Lovely critique of Thurber
This is a wonderful commentary on Thurber’s 13 Clocks, which has been reissued.
Cryptic email and status report
Yesterday at work I got this massively cryptic email from the senior finance person who says check into your share situation. Normally I have stuff neatly filed but I can’t find anything more recent than 2003. I don’t think the phone number is even the same from back then for Computershare. Now I have to phone Computershare and find out what’s going on. Needless to say, there have been public announcements about the company which may not be named and while I don’t imagine this actually means a lot of money I am mildly excited.
Pressured speech commences: Continue reading Cryptic email and status report
Holy cow
back, back, back
It’s all I think about, but so far things are gently improving.
Yup, I was right
Amazing post about the U*U church shooting
Read the whole thing. If you want to understand what contemporary liberal religion looks like, this is a damned good place to start. Thanks to Rev Katie for forwarding it….
Sandy P sent me this mÜÜse link. Expiah of dah cyute!
Okay, first you see one little moose come out and play. Then mOm shows up. And then, when you think it can’t possibly get any cuter….. more moose!
Shooting at church
There’s been a church shooting at a UU church in Knoxville TN. One man is confirmed dead, two others were treated and released and six other adults are clinging to life as I write this. The shooter opened fire with a 12 gauge in the sanctuary. He doesn’t appear to be a member of the church; I would be willing to bet he’s an evangelical with mental health problems, doing the world a favour by shooting Unitarians.
Love each other while you can.
Sunday roundup of stuff
Man pepper sprays dogs. He should be pepper spraying the gd owners. And, not to put too fine a point on it, but Lighthouse Park is an offleash zone and Jeff and I saw and smelled MUCH doggydo.
Shoot, any teenager can do this when you ask for the chores to get done. Frog can tune its hearing to specific frequencies.
You can simply NEVER have enough Evil Dead.
A collection of improbably unphotoshopped pictures.
Try the BBC Sensory Challenge. I got 14 out of 20, I’m sure you can do better than that.
Jupiter is one cool looking planet.
Why can’t somebody do one for Canadian politics?
A list of reference sites on the internet. May I point nautilus3 at the Dictionary of Popular Cultural References? Also the Illustrated Dictionary of Jewels is molto cool.
Great pictures of cool light phenomena. ABSOLUTE best pic of a ‘hula dancer’ I’ve ever seen. I have seen this phenomenon only since I moved to BC, and the best one I ever saw was in Courtenay – it happened in the fall and lasted a good half hour. The hula dancer is referred to as a circumhorizontal arc in the list of pictures, which is technically what it’s called, but sailors and fishermen of the coast call them ‘hula dancers’.
Everybody should have a prof like this, and that’s no lie.
Hope everybody has a loverly Sunday.
Hike and Katie
Jeff and I hiked around Lighthouse Park this morning, and then we came home ate salmon sandwiches and I assembled a stew with purple potatoes and beef and onions. Then Katie came over and we watched Perfume and ate stew and she just left. She’s living with Dax again.
That’s pretty much my day. I feel pretty mellow.
Came home from drinking with coworkers last night
And there’s a block for all the knives, a new toilet seat, and, in the freezer, chocolate ice cream. It’s like I live at Hogwarts and every time I turn my back the house-elves have done something. Go Jeff.
Said goodbye to Liz and Klaus last night. Liz is an Irish lass who was with us in HR very briefly but memorably and honorably (and if I say why she was memorable, that would be indiscreet) and Klaus is a German lad who was with the company for about the same length of time as me. Like everybody who’s been at BigCo for more than ten minutes, he has an Allegra anecdote; faithful readers of this blog will know that I write Valentine cards for coworkers every year. One year his read, “I love you as much as I love the company ERP” which is kinda like saying you love boils, plague, cedar splinters and popped collars. He sought me out afterwards and with a classic everyman WTF expression on his face BEGGED me to reveal what in God’s name he’d ever done to deserve such a card. Everybody in earshot hearing this for the first time burst out laughing…especially the people from Finance.
I spent 50 bucks on jugs of beer and nibblies, and some of the folks there coughed up some money, so I only ended up spending what I would have spent on myself, so it was more than satisfactory.
I am making chocolate waffles. My happiness is tempered somewhat by the knowledge that somewhere, lurking in the batter, is a piece of eggshell. I hope I get it and not Jeff.
Ooh, I just remembered. Ian M. gave me a lift home and he’s got a brand new Prius. Silver, of course. What a sweet ride that car is!