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Week One

Published on March 19, 2010

Week One of unemployment and my accomplishments are slim, compared to my initial hopes.  Oh, I had great plans for all the things that I would get done when I FINALLY had the time.  It hasn’t worked out exactly that way! Day one– Monday – I drove up to the head office of my FORMER […]


It’s February already???

Published on February 3, 2010

Geez. Already? Usually I’m glad to see the winter passing quickly.  I don’t like cold, I don’t like SNOW which is the foulest four-letter-word of them all. I don’t like scraping ice off the windshield in the morning, I don’t like slipping on ice and falling on my ass, usually where others can see me […]


Thermostat issues

Published on January 19, 2010

15th Annual Nanook Wars (AKA  15th Annual Thermostat Wars) It begins again. Every year. Shortly after cold weather sets in. Paul is cold. I am not. Paul is skinny. I am not as skinny as I used to be not. Perhaps this affects how we perceive weather and cold and intelligent thought. I say intelligent things […]