My Own Thoughts

Life is short. Sometimes it is shorter than you expect. One of my coworkers from my alma mater went in the hospital last week for surgery. However, they found that she had cancer everywhere and that her heart function was down to 20%. She went into hospice yesterday. I didn’t know Vicki well, but it [...]

I found it on blogspot, but it moved to wordpress and then it moved again to IanThomas. It’s interesting reading. March 2010 quotes on silence. Etc. Going to put it on RSS and read.

Okay, this is premature, but I am really having trouble just shuffling off this topic. Go: 1. Dream job for me 2. Son can better afford college (and he wants us to go with him to college!) 3. H can pursue his professional goals. 4. Have friends there and could find other like-minded people. 5. [...]

We officially have too many science fiction and fantasy books. I can’t fit them all into the three bookshelves in the dining room without double stacking and I don’t really like to do that. I know Chris does it, but I don’t like it. When I go in to find something to read, I have [...]

We had the powder room done. It looks very nice, but it is very brightly white. I put the shelf back in and I don’t really like it there. But if it’s not there, the bathroom looks like everything is very short. So I guess I will leave it. The blue pieces I put up [...]

I had high tea today at the Millenium Biltmore in LA. Very pretty. All the bready-things were not particularly good, but the tea was delicious, the service was excellent, and the table setting (including the individual yellow rose) was beautiful. As I sat there I thought that Mom would enjoy it tremendously, just for the [...]

My list of RSS feeds I read on a regular basis is gone as my computer crashed. So what am I going to do? It will be hard to reconstruct that list. I have significant lists that I read to keep myself up on various streams of interest. Update: Hurray! It’s so wonderful to have [...]

I forgot how uncomfortable the presentation of Republicans and half the nation as anti-intellectuals who were evil becomes when you are at a conference. The speakers assume that everyone is a strongly left liberal. They use “we” and “our” in response to hate of Gingrich and Palin. All about how stupid the people are who [...]

My mother called this morning. Apparently when I did the sync with my phone and computer, it “fixed” the deletion of my mother from my phone. So I wasn’t even sure who it was… my dad or my sister. After the phone call I thought, I should think of some wonderful times with my mother. [...]