Thursday, February 19th, 2009
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6:53 pm - Oh I had such a good time
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
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6:13 pm - Oh HOORAY
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I am going to eat Curried Anything and Curried Everything now forever.
Husband is converted.
current mood: sated with the best
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
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7:59 am - Today's plan.
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
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10:20 am - You know there are times
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
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11:59 am - unemployment, deficits, other indicators
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"dire, dire, dire".
I know it is boring to write about this stuff. I won't say much. There isn't much to say, really. Here is my two cents: the Wise Men don't have a clue about what to do. They have ideas, but don't know if they will work or not.(Damn, an 8% GDP deficit is DIRE.)
The only other thing I have to say right now is that I am pissed about how the Republicans are pretty insistent that "stimulus package" spending should be tilted towards tax cuts and that sort of thing and not investment-type stimulus spending (think New Deal projects). Do these people never want to invest in education and infrastructure and Public Works?
No, they never do.
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
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1:30 pm - Happy Monkeygiving.
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
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3:07 pm - Shopping
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Mostly I don't. But lately I have stepped out a little, and I can see how people get into it. I'd better be careful.
Today I found some amazing yarn--at JoAnne's, of all places! And for practically nothing. Sweet!
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
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8:50 pm - There are still a lot of uncounted votes
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in the Alaska Senate race, but now Begich is over 1000 votes ahead. I hope he wins. Here is some upbeat reading:
"Earlier this week, one of Stevens own pollsters said Begich is all but certain to win the election.
"I don't think Stevens can come back," Alaska pollster David Dittman told the Huffington Post, adding that remaining uncounted ballots will help Begich "increase his lead."
Ivan Moore, an Anchorage pollster who has worked closely with Democrats, agreed.
He told the Associated Press Friday that he doesn’t “see a significant bloc of votes that's remaining for Ted to get him back into this.” "
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Sarah Palin is only one reason I am so angry about Alaska. Another is the Bridge-to-Nowhere-type federal pork they have been sucking their way for so long. But the electoral stick in the eye, besides Ted, is that they re-elected Don Young as their Congressman, though the challenger Ethan Berkowitz had polled really well against him. Young is an ethical pig and has spent over a million dollars in legal fees on the various ongoing unpleasantness he is mired in. And yet, he won.
I hate Alaska. But if Begich wins, I'll hate it a little less.
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
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6:15 pm - Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
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6:11 pm - Yum!
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
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10:14 am - Sarah Palin,
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
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8:04 am - I want one to wash 'n' one to wear
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I saw a girl with a t-shirt that said "Sarcasm is the body's natural defense against stupid."
current mood: make that 3
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
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9:44 am - Oh duh
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I forgot, last friday, when it was the hugest biggest news, to post the ever-so-tacky sports headline:
"Beavers Pull Away From Trojans"
Damn.
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
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11:12 am - If our kid had a sister, er, um, it's would be so. unthinkable.
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We took little Zyx to his college, where he will live in an apartment. He was matched with roommates that were previously unknown to him (but not to each other). One was quite ordinary to the likes of us, and the other was named for a famous prophet (not Isaiah). These young men appeared after we'd gotten our lad moved in and taken him out to buy a bunch of supplies and were about to hit the road home, so we basically exchanged pleasantries.
Anyway, I noted that the prophet-named one is very plump, and was thinking happily that he might like to cook, and might impart skills to my young 'un, who also likes to cook, and wondered vaguely which types of skills they might be--South Asian or maybe Egyptian, as his skin was very dark--but the food might be good, if he can cook. Just sunny-side thoughts, as we were exchanging PLEASANTRIES, as people do, you know? and then for some reason this young man announced that he is a Republican.
The Zyx family looked at the corners of the room, and their toes, and the ceiling, and young Zyx actually started to stammer that Some Of Our Best Friends, indeed, one of his Best Friends in High School, even, etc.
We. Fail.
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
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5:37 pm - Oops
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This hurricane looks bad. And this morning I just put my mother on an airplane for a trip to Texas. Oh, oops.
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4:32 pm - funny this
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Poodle and I walk a lot in our neighborhood. In my old 'hood in my old state I would never have put a Democratic sign up before an election. I lived On Rural Redneck Road, and I was afraid that more would happen that just having my sign pulled up...but here, it's all Dem signs. Well, I saw a Bush sign four years ago, come to think about it, a few blocks away. But I hadn't seen any such thing recently, until yesterday, over on 26th Street, I saw the first McCain sign in a considerable dog-walking radius of my home. And there are just dozens of Obama signs, just dozens.
Here is the funny thing about that McCain sign: the folks had put it right on the edge of their yard. And about three feet away, on the edge of the neighbors' yard, just parallel to that McCain sign, was an Obama sign. I wonder how well those neighbors know each other. Tee hee.
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
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8:47 pm - earlier and also in progress
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I made applesauce. Now, do adults EAT applesauce? I do, but first I have to heat it up some and add a little vanilla ice cream and put a few chopped walnuts on top. Not so virtuous. But it seemed less virtuous to watch dozens and dozens and more dozens of Gravenstein apples ROT out in the back corner.
They can't be given away, which might seem obvious. It's a big old grandfather tree and the apples fall from too high to pick and almost every one is bruised, so they can't be given away.
This is not our main apple tree. The main tree hasn't started, and it is LOADED.
current mood: overwhelmed
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
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10:38 pm - Had a dinner
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Had my mom over. Hubby got a chicken and rotisseried it over oak smoke until it was done-and-delish. The rest was pretty much from the yard. I finally did something up with the apples--made an apple crisp with the Gravensteins. There was corn. There was pumpkin bread from a Golden Nugget squash--it would have been just squash, but it was the first one that I dared pick, and it didn't look quite completely ripe. I think it was ripe enough, but I wasn't going to argue with the family, and they love pumpkin bread. And there were tomatoes.
Why isn't it always like this? Oh, it is, a little bit, if you live in a place like Hawaii.
current mood:  full
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Sunday, September 7th, 2008
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10:49 pm - Urk
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The angle of the afternoon sun is different. The boy will go off in a week to continue his studies. I succumb to panic attacks, though I should be 1) grateful that there still IS sun and 2) happy that the boy will be close enough to visit pretty often.
But in these parts, summers are much too short.
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
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2:09 pm - This is probably making the rounds, but
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I liked it a lot.
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Sayings of the Jewish Buddha
If there is no self, whose arthritis is this?
Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?
Drink tea and nourish life; with the first sip, joy; with the second sip, satisfaction; with the third sip, peace; with the fourth, a Danish.
Wherever you go, there you are. Your luggage is another story.
Accept misfortune as a blessing. Do not wish for perfect health, or a life without problems. What would you talk about?
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single Oy.
There is no escaping karma. In a previous life, you never called, you never wrote, you never visited. And whose fault was that?
Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.
The Tao does not speak. The Tao does not blame. The Tao does not take sides. The Tao has no expectations. The Tao demands nothing of others.
The Tao is not Jewish.
Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. Forget this and attaining Enlightenment will be the least of your problems.
Let your mind be as a floating cloud. Let your stillness be as a wooded glen. And sit up straight. You'll never meet the Buddha with such rounded shoulders.
Deep inside you are ten thousand flowers.
Each flower blossoms ten thousand times.
Each blossom has ten thousand petals.
You might want to see a specialist.
Be aware of your body. Be aware of your perceptions. Keep in mind that not every physical sensation is a symptom of a terminal illness.
The Torah says, Love your neighbor as yourself.
The Buddha says, There is no self.
So, maybe we're off the hook.
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