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Just Shelley

Maties!

Avast ye dirty dogs! Today be Talk like a Pirate Day! Clear winner so far is Planet Arrrr! DF! As in: Arrrr! you scurvy dogs! Get yer hands off me bnodes! In honor of Lady Pirates the world over, repeats: The Jolly Rogerina, co-created with Elaine of Kalilily:

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Burningbird

Splitting by topic

In the past, I have split the weblog into pieces based on subject matter and interest. However, most folk read weblogs through aggregators now, so it makes more sense to split weblog topics into different syndication feeds rather than different weblogs. This is a mixed-bag weblog, which means I write on anything, and I mean […]

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Just Shelley

Threshold

I had to borrow the car today so I took my roommate into work and picked him up. As usual, I hung my arm out the open window when I drove, and when I got to roomie’s place of business, I noticed I had these tiny little blisters over most of my arm. I knew […]

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Writing

Frolicsome reading

Fridays are a good day to indulge in the work of others that gives me so much delight. I am lucky in your gifts–too many to list all, so I’ll just have to pick out a few this time around. Jerry has a photo of a rather intimidating looking spider and I really like the poem he […]

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Just Shelley

Uncle Sam owns my soul

I just finished doing my taxes for 2004. I had filed an extension in April, as I didn’t have money to pay for taxes then. The day of reckoning has finally arrived, and I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I only owe 4.00 for Missouri state taxes. The bad […]