Oh, bliss! I became exhausted always worrying about work and studying to improve my skills. I decided I was going to take some time and feed my brain things to make it happy. I decadently ordered 4 books from Amazon (4 for 3 plus Super Saver Shipping = $21). Two were Sharon Shinn books and [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
In praise of Cardinal Camera
January 30, 2008 – 10:02 am
I wanted to buy a small digital camera. How hard could it be? I went on the Internet and reasearched cameras. I read about megapixels, auto stabilization, batteries, focus, zoom, ISO simulation, etc. Holy cow. There are so many options, and so many cameras out there! What to buy? I couldn’t decide. I decided to [...]
Sisyphus
January 10, 2008 – 3:48 am
Found this quote on “Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose” blog for Jan. 9 about Hillary Clinton running for president:
We don’t know what to do with a woman like that. We keep telling her what her place is, and the bitch just won’t listen! It makes a lot of people nervous. It makes me unutterably grateful. I [...]
You just go on
January 2, 2008 – 3:06 am
Harra was silent for long enough for Lem to pass around the stone jug one last time, in the dim moonlight and shadows. Then she said, “You go on. You just go on. There’s nothing more to it, and there’s no trick to make it easier. You just go on.”
“What do you find on the [...]
Courtesy and kindness towards a loved one
January 2, 2008 – 3:03 am
I was irritable and somewhat rude twice over the holidays to an older relative. I feel extremely bad about it. I’m generally not like that. I searched on the Internet for some quotes on Courtesy to give my mind some reminders of what it should be doing. I couldn’t find much that was useful – a [...]
