Since there are some of you out there (cough Ari cough) who don’t like being blinded by black text on a radiating white background (whatever!), I have finally learned the fine art of cookie-setting. You can now choose the link in the menu at left entitled “Styles” and reset the css file for this and […]

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I guess I’m looking to simply things. This seems to be a good start. Until I get tired of the simplicity and clutter it all up again. But for now, I’m enjoying the lessness of it.

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So I step outside real fast to tell Julien to stop watering the side of the house and the windows (he’s supposed to be watering the trees and bushes). He says ok, sorry, and I turn to come back in when I catch my faint, ghostly reflection in the glass of the storm door. I […]

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Glory Hallelujah, Praise God Almighty in His Highest Holy Kingdom, Etc. Etc., I think I finally fixed the double-posting bug in my comments script. Try it, see if it posts your comments immediately without you having to hit refresh or go back. Go ahead, I’ll wait.

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Can one really expect to be taken seriously when one’s entire site is presented in Comic Sans? Honestly. Hasn’t that font been banned already?

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They say it is better to let them idle. They say it would be harder to re-cool the cabin than to just let the air-conditioner run. So they leave them running while their hordes storm the Capitol. My office, on the third floor, overlooks the west arm of the driveway where they park and socialize […]

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It’s been a pretty blah month, really. I haven’t felt especially interested in much of anything and as a result I let myself get easily overtaken by petty obsessions (is there a leak under my slab? is my house sinking? is all my cooling being sucked right out of my house?) (The answer to all […]

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I can see Spain out my office window. It was never there before. In fact, I have pictures taken out my window from various times over the past year and Spain is nowhere in sight. Only its thick aluminum pole could be seen. And sometimes, when the wind blew hard, you could hear the hollow […]

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With the discovery this morning of the new flags posted outside the building came another discovery. The French flag is upside-down. (Remember, Texas was once under French rule.) Correct me if I’m wrong, but the fleurs-de-lis should have the single, fat-leaf head pointing upward with the smaller tri-leaf foot pointing down, right? Like this. Well, […]

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I’m guessing you’ve all heard about the Texas democrats who went AWOL yesterday, causing the House to halt normal business. Most of the missing representatives are holed up in Ardmore, Oklahoma, which is where I spent a glorious few days a couple years ago. Not a bad little town as far as little towns go. […]

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