Moving, part II

I mentioned last month that I’m feeling another move coming on … and from all the moving I’ve done in the last many years, you’d think I actually enjoyed it or something. Not true. I’m just really *good* at it. I’ve been wrestling with this question for most of the last month or so, but …

short weekend notes

The Bombers lost, but it wasn’t nearly the blow-out it should have been given Sylvan Hills’s statewide ranking — final score, 14-3. Go Bombers! I painted two trivets for my mom today at YAP paint-your-own-pottery fun. One’s for her Arkansas kitchen (done in cherries and red paint), the other’s for her Hawaiian kitchen (done in …

Presidential debating.

Did you see last night’s presidential debate? If not (or even if you did), here’s a link to the full transcript, courtesy of the Washington Post. I caught parts of it, but will watch it in full this weekend. It’s called “homework.” 🙂 In the few pieces I caught, though, I will render this assessment: …

Not a Bomber fan? Move along.

While I was gone on vacation, I neglected to check the results of last week’s Bomber football game … but lo and behold, the Mountain Home Bombers managed to WIN their first conference game of the season last week against Jacksonville. The final score was 9-0, bringing Mountain Home’s season record to 3-1 (and 1-0 …

Bill O’Reilly is an ass. End of story.

From today’s “Quick” edition of the Dallas Morning News: Don’t call his peeps ‘slackers’ When Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart appeared earlier this month on Bill O’Reilly’s Fox show, the famed “no spin” spinmeister said fans of Stewart’s The Daily Show were a bunch of “stoned slackers.” That didn’t sit well with the Comedy Central clan, …

I’m disappointed in Dr. P.

I don’t often publicly admit to watching the Dr. Phil show on CBS, but it’s true that I did watch an episode or three during his first two years on the air. However, I’ve found fewer and fewer of his shows worth my time lately, and an excellent Slate.com article (“Dr. Phil’s opportunistic parental-advice franchise“) …

Avoid petting zoos!

An e-mail came across my DC Web Women listserv the other day referencing a good site to peruse — the Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation. Thankfully, the referrer pointed to it as a “really funny” site, otherwise I would be frightened thinking they were serious!

Yes, finally, I’m back.

I’m back in Texas … Rags is back at our apartment … I’m back at work … and I’m back to being swamped. 🙂 Yes, friends, dreamy vacation time is over, and now it’s back to reality. I know I didn’t tell you all abundant stories about my trip, but the pictures really tell the …

USS Arizona Memorial

Today, Dalis took me to see the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor. What I didn’t ever fully understand is that the memorial is constructed above the wreckage of the battleship, which is clearly visible in the shallow waters of the harbor. It is haunting to look at the massive wall of names of those …