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Writing

The roots of the gnarly tree run deep

The roots of the gnarly tree run deep. The untroubled tree grows straight and smooth, beautiful and proud treetops vanishing into the sky, towering over lessor beings. The gnarly tree rests close to the earth, and twists about from knocks and blows; rough skinned from exposure and bowed with time. The untroubled tree commands respect […]

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Weather

Storm closin’ in

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. They’ve issued a damaging hail warning, but it may not get this far. I suppose it’s only a matter of time before Golden Girl looks like metallic swiss cheese. But, oh, I love these storms.

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Weather

Storm a brewin’

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I will never tire of the storms here. As long as I don’t have to drive through them, watching them, feeling them, smelling them is a wonder. An absolute wonder. I actually felt and smelled this storm before looking out the window and seeing the clouds. Your hairs stand up […]

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Burningbird

Canceled move to new server

I’ve canceled the move to the new server and have renewed the site here at Hosting Matters while I think what best next to do. Hosting Matters responded very quickly to ensure that this site is maintained, so other than some momentary DNS confusion, this weblog shouldn’t be disrupted. Also apologies for all the grumpiness […]

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Weblogging

Sappy Woof!

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I am more than a little fuzzy tonight — way too much technology. However, in between tarring, gzipping, ftping, installing, testing, breaking, and re-installing, I’ve had time to keep up with all the linguistics discussions and I have to say how much I’ve enjoyed these. It started with the now […]