BurningbirdAnother task accomplished this week – putting together my first, and hopefully last, eBay auction. I wonder if eBay puts so much information on each page to deliberately obfuscate the fact that many of the nifty little extras come with a fee? Regardless of reason, the user interface to build an auction is a mess. Not […]
Many thanks for the kind words about my birthday. My roommate took me out for an Italian dinner that would violate every aspect of an Atkins diet. We had bruschetta for an appetizer, home made garlic breadsticks with the dinner, which happened to be chicken, artichoke, sun dried tomato, and shitake mushroom sauteed in garlic […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I turned 49 today. Or, more precisely, I turned 49 this morning at 7:02am. I’ve reached the age where I’ve lived too long to die and leave a beautiful corpse. The the only other option open to me now is to live long enough to become a burden on society. […]
Recovered story. I no longer have the collection, but you can see photos of what once was. I am a poor collector. All other collectors know the name and origin of their rocks and crystals. Show a spark of curiosity and you’ll also here anecdotal material, history, and even industrial uses of base mineral. I […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. We had another flock of robins come through again today. Many more females this time since they are on a southern migration, not northern. Robins are ground feeding birds, so it’s surprising how fast and agile they are in the air. Robins have long been the harbingers of spring, but […]