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Monthly Archives: February 2019
One hundred hours!
This February Somara twisted my arm into participating into this year’s Close the Rings challenge, it’s the newer bar graph on my site you may see. These days it’s mentioning how close I am to the bronze achievement. Even before … Continue reading
Satine update for mid-February
It appears Satine has either forgiven me and/or isn’t too bright because she lets me pet her again after trying twice to wrangle her into the carrier. Needless to say, I failed but thankfully I wasn’t scratched seriously. The unnamed … Continue reading
New shirt for Colby
In anticipation of Fragile Rock’s new, upcoming album…and I got sucked into Hot Topic, my Emo Muppet Colby got a new shirt. You can see he’s a big fan of Stranger Things. I really wanted one of Eleven for me but … Continue reading
1809: Charles Darwin & Abraham Lincoln born
As Emo Philips has a joke: Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln have the same birthday which is fitting because they’re the two biggest enemies of the South. Being an American living in any region, even abroad, it is a painfully … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Historical Birthday, Opinion, Politics, US Civil War
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Rogues Gallery rocks! I won a prize!
This is why brick and mortar stores rule and they will continue to exist…relationships with their customers! Recently, they had a drawing for us who belong to the Agents of Rogue Club. The winner received a mini to be painted … Continue reading
Catching up again, let’s hear it for antibiotics!
Picayune slow down again thanks to a sinus infection probably caused by the relatively sudden shifts in our wonderful weather. The downside of Austin recovering from the Polar Vortex getting loose. It took me a while to finally put it … Continue reading
Fear by Bob Woodward
The only other book I’ve ever read by Bob Woodward was Veil way back in the early Nineties (or was it the late Eighties?) I know I was still attending Marquette when I checked it out from the library. Even so, I … Continue reading
1994: Arriving in Austin for the first time and 25 years!
Holy crap! Twenty-five years have just blitzed by already but at least this time, another quarter century of my life has been more under my control and somewhere I want to be unlike the hellholes the parents dragged me to. … Continue reading