pics and babbling - Growing Old Disgracefully

Good thing to know

Published on October 29 2006

Death by Caffeine You could drink 80.02 cups of Drip Coffee before croaking. By the way, this getting dark at 5pm stuff is FOR THE BIRDS. And so is the WAKING UP AT 4AM STUFF. Maybe more coffee will help.

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blast from the past....

Published on October 29 2006

Got busy this morning doing some cleaning of the proverbial "Undies Drawer". Amazing the things you find in there.... for example, the "boyshorts" that were all the rage a year or so ago. Women's undies that were supposed to mimic mens' boxers on a smaller...

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WINTER POEM

Published on October 29 2006

Sent to me by a friend this morning. I think she's jumping the gun just a tiny bit, but I'm hoping I can get this lovely piece of poetry memorized by January. I'm kinda busy, but I think it's a worthwhile project. The best piece of English literature...

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tabby toys

Published on October 28 2006

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North Korea in the corner

Published on October 27 2006

Putin: Don't back North Korea into corner - CNN.com SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) -- North Korea should not be backed into a corner over its nuclear test if the global community wants to resolve the crisis over the North's atomic ambitions, Russian President...

Cards top Tigers 4-2 to win World Series - Yahoo! News ST. LOUIS - Favored by few, the St. Louis Cardinals used an unlikely cast of characters to win their first World Series in nearly a quarter century. And we all remember who they beat in 1982 to take...

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Doing my part...

Published on October 26 2006

...by losing some of the "junk in MY trunk"!! Soooo.....since I've lost a large amount of weight since 2001--and no, I'm not going to actually write the number out, lol-- looks like I'm in the $30 per year savings area. $30 over five years....hmmmm........

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aptitude tests

Published on October 24 2006

One of the requirements for class this week was to take a "job aptitude" test. Considering I've been in more or less one career for a veryveryvery long time, I thought it might be interesting to see what I *should* be doing with my life!! I clipped a...

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This is kinda cool

Published on October 22 2006

If I use the married name... HowManyOfMe.com There are: 12 people with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your name? But if I use the maiden-once-again-to-be-last?-name.... HowManyOfMe.com There is: 1 person with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your...

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It's almost Halloween

Published on October 21 2006

You'd think we were at Faber College...where KNOWLEDGE IS GOOD "Who dropped a whole truckload of fizzies into the swim meet? Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner? Every Halloween, the trees are filled with underwear. Every spring,...