Month: December 2009

No More Sunnyside Up Fortune Cookies

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  • Seek out the signifigance of your problem at this time. Try to understand.
  • Your road to glory will be rocky, but fulfilling.
  • It is time to help a friend in need.
  • You will continue to take chances and be glad you did.
  • You will realize your dreams by your own efforts.

As nice as all of these are… don’t you kind of miss the days when fortune cookies were kind of a scary prospect?… Read the rest

There are Days When…

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Getting back to this personal blog again. Which means I will need to fix it. I have a bunch of broken links from the last time I moved things on my web host. I should also give it a change from the Spring daisy look, considering how much snow there is outside today.

But, today I already have a fairly good work load and don’t feel like doing much other than hiding indoors taking care of myself.… Read the rest

Afterlife for a Christmas Tree?

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These are all photo sharing groups on Flickr, the topic being abandoned Christmas trees, usually living tress but not always. It is kind of sad to see a tree tossed out on the side of the road, not given the chance to grow somewhere else or at least become compost. What does happen to these trees thrown out in the cold?… Read the rest

Your Own Strange, Far Place

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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. – H.P. Lovecraft

Start just imagining a strange, far place in your mind. What colours do you see? How tall or short are the things you see? What do you smell? What is within reach for you to touch, or be touched by? What do you hear? How do you feel now that you are there?… Read the rest

A Quiet Afterwards Kind of Day

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Garbage is getting picked up today. I didn’t think it would so I didn’t put it out. Not that I have a lot anyway. For Christmas I wasn’t home so all that wrapping isn’t in my recycling bins.

The best Christmas present I got were new warm socks. The kind that have rubber nubbins at the bottom so you can walk around the house with warm feet that don’t slip on the floors.… Read the rest

Cute Little Devil

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Watching Alice (again). Filmed in Vancouver with a lot of Canadian, US and British actors. Andrew-Lee Potts is one of the Brits. I’ve seen him before in Primeval. Charming smile. He wears a lot of eye make up in Alice, I don’t think he needed that much.