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    Good bye, GreyGuy

    Saturday, 7 November 2009 9:25 P GMT-08
    GreyGuy, one of Ken's original cats and eldest son of Sylvia, died Thursday evening.  He was 11 1/2 years old, and seemed to be in good health.  He helped me with my bath Thursday morning, and tried to steal Sweetie's special food a
    Category: Furball Farm
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    Create Art Now!

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009 1:21 P GMT-08
    I really thought October was going to be easier than September, and that I'd post the various finished objects, newly started objects and other fun stuff that's been keeping me so busy.  Work hasn't slowed down as much as I'd exp
    Category: Yadda Yadda Yadda 2009 Finished Objects
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    Time off for good behavior

    Sunday, 4 October 2009 5:40 P GMT-08
    September went by in a blur as I worked too many hours on a project I inherited when a co-worker was asked to leave.  It went in flawlessly last weekend, but there were some frightening moments all month as we discovered things undone or done in
    Category: Yadda Yadda Yadda
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    I love it when a plan starts coming together!

    Sunday, 6 September 2009 11:55 A GMT-08
    Late last year, Bess posted this to her blog.  (That should be a link to her post of November 5, 2008, which introduced me to a plant called Devil's Walkingstick, which was totally unfamiliar to me.)  Immediately I wanted to knit somet
    Category: Knitting Projects Knit From Stash 2009
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    September 1

    Tuesday, 1 September 2009 7:45 P GMT-08
    It's the beginning of a new month, and soon Autumn will be here.  Already leaves are starting to fall from the trees - not is great drifts, but single leaves that are crisp and dry.  No beautiful colors yet, but perhaps this year we'
    Category: Home and Garden Yadda Yadda Yadda
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    Getting back to what passes for normal

    Tuesday, 25 August 2009 7:31 P GMT-08
    The title pretty much says it all!  Life and stuff is getting back to what passes for normal around here.As of 1:15 PT today, texting from my ancient Treo 650 is possible.  Getting voicemail is possible.  Internet connectivity still el
    Category: Yadda Yadda Yadda

    Stupid AT&T broke my phone!

    Tuesday, 11 August 2009 8:43 P GMT-08
    Yes, they did.My ancient Treo 650 stopped recognizing my username and password a couple of months ago.  No biggie, but I was passing an AT&T store the other day so I went in to ask them to check - was I using the right ones?Somehow, it ended
    Category: Whine and cheese

    Skydiving? In San Francisco?

    Wednesday, 5 August 2009 8:42 P GMT-08
    It was a beautiful day in the City by the Bay.  There were indeed skydivers - 100 of 'em - and I joined lots of other Financial District workers in watching this  media event.Now I'm waiting for the commercial...
    Category: Yadda Yadda Yadda

    Week 1: Eating Well (on $50 a week): Not Exactly...

    Sunday, 2 August 2009 12:00 A GMT-08
    So how did we do in our first week of trying to eat on $50 a week?We went over budget by $92.94!First the good stuff:  I took breakfast in every day (except Friday, when I worked at home), and saved $32.  I also brought lunch (or it was pro
    Category: Eating Well
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    I fought a gopher and the gopher won!

    Saturday, 1 August 2009 12:00 A GMT-08
    ...rushing in way before it should be here!What happened to July?  I was all set to blog and Get Stuff Done, and here it's August, and I didn't blog much, and if you could see the house and yard and garden and knitting you'd know I d
    Category: Home and Garden Veggie Garden

    Eating Well and True Confessions

    Friday, 24 July 2009 5:20 P GMT-08
    Have you checked out the blog Eating Well on $50 a Week?   I've followed it since it's debut a couple of months ago (one of the authors, Cari Luna, has a knitting and personal blog I've followed for years) and found it to be interes
    Category: Eating Well
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    Summer is just flying by

    Tuesday, 21 July 2009 8:51 P GMT-08
    I really intended to post more often this month. I have lots to show you:  yarn, patterns, beads, fabrics for clothing and quilts, garden photos, embroidery, crewel - you name it, it's been bought or dragged down from the attic in the past f
    Category: Yadda Yadda Yadda
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    Ahhh!

    Sunday, 5 July 2009 8:18 P GMT-08
    Do you hear that sigh of utter contentment?That's me, after a wonderful Independence Day weekend.I didn't have a holiday from work, although Ken was off on Friday.  Still, we slept in on Saturday and Sunday, but were awake and up before
    Category: Yadda Yadda Yadda

    Knitting with wire and beads

    Thursday, 25 June 2009 9:14 P GMT-08
    I have a love - hate relationship with knitting with wire and beads.I love (usually) the end result, but I often hate the process.  It's hard on my hands - and knitting needles - and it makes me crazy trying to get nice even stitches.Still,
    Category: Knitting with Wire Summer of Indulgence
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    Summer of Indulgence

    Wednesday, 10 June 2009 9:19 P GMT-08
    For some, this is the summer of the sock.  For others, it's the summer of shawls.  For me, it's the summer of indulgence.Yes indeedy, I'm going to indulge myself in any way that pleases me.  There will be no knitting to a d
    Category: Summer of Indulgence
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    Drudgery

    Monday, 1 June 2009 9:56 P GMT-08
    Memorial Day weekend was an epiphany for me.  For 3 days, I ignored personal email, voicemail, work email and did only tasks and projects that made me happy or that I wanted to do because I wanted to do them, not because I should or because some
    Category: Yadda Yadda Yadda
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    Quick updates

    Wednesday, 13 May 2009 9:05 P GMT-08
    Random thoughts, because I'm to tired / frazzled / busy to string coherent thoughts into a post.1.  There's a lip balm in my purse, in my DayTimer, on the vanity and on my home office desk.  Two are Chapstick Mint, 1 is Burt's B
    Category: Yadda Yadda Yadda

    Working hard, or hardly working?

    Friday, 1 May 2009 12:00 A GMT-08
    Yesterday I agreed to help a new co-worker with a project (note: she didn't think she needed help, but our manager and several other folks thought she did).  I worked on my half of the documentation until midnight Wednesday, and had a good r
    Category: Home and Garden Yadda Yadda Yadda

    Digging in the dirt

    Sunday, 26 April 2009 9:12 P GMT-08
    The weather was finally good for gardening - not raining, not too hot - and garden I did.   Every spare moment all weekend was spent in garden-related activity of some sort.Usually the raised beds are planted by mid-April at the latest; thi
    Category: Home and Garden
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    Back to what passes for normal...

    Tuesday, 21 April 2009 7:42 P GMT-08
    Last week was long and hard - Thursday I did get to work about 3 and left Friday morning at 2:30!  Conference calls at 4 am and 8:45 were the icing on the cake...but I was able to sleep until noon, quite possibly for the first time since college
    Category: Home and Garden Yadda Yadda Yadda

    ...and more work

    Thursday, 16 April 2009 8:49 A GMT-08
    Last week was incredibly long - I put in 57 hours in 5 days!This week may be almost as long.  When I left last night, I'd worked 33 hours, and I've worked another couple at home since.  Right now it's 9:30 am, and I'm sittin
    Category: Home and Garden Yadda Yadda Yadda

    Another long night (and teaser FOtos!)

    Thursday, 9 April 2009 9:09 P GMT-08
    Another project install tonight - fourth of five for this week, third of three evening installs - and I'm just about ready for this week to be over!I managed to sleep in this morning until 7:25, treated myself to breakfast out, worked a few hours
    Category: Home and Garden Saturday Sweaters Wonderful Wallaby Serape Sweater 2009 Finished Objects
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    Working for a living

    Wednesday, 8 April 2009 1:36 A GMT-08
    So, it's just after midnight so technically it's Thursday morning.  I'm working - watching DBAs do their thing according to my instructions - and have been off and on since 7:45 Wednesday morning.  We should be done in about 3 m
    Category: Yadda Yadda Yadda
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    I'm a rainbow

    Friday, 3 April 2009 6:53 A GMT-08
    Found at Rabbitch's site and oh, so true. There were 4 groups where either choice was fine.  I did it once with each choice and got the same result.  Your rainbow is strongly shaded green.       What
    Category: Blog Things

    General Foolishness

    Wednesday, 1 April 2009 8:23 P GMT-08
    It's 9 pm on April Fool's Day, and not one prank has been pulled on me.  We're home now, and since Ken is not a jokester it would seem I'm safe for another year.  My mind is scattered all over, so it's time for some gene
    Category: Yadda Yadda Yadda

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