Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
6:40 a.m., driving to work: between distorted black clouds, the sky is laden gray. The moon still hangs above the western mountains. Because of a heavy cloud bank, the sun has yet to come up, an eerie phenomena in this, the land of perpetual sun. The wind is gusting up [...]
At work yesterday the Internet chose to behave in a despicable manner, taking up to 40 minutes to load a page. A little after one o’clock in the afternoon, the system crashed altogether. I guess they don’t realize that a couple of months ago I started to mainline my email [...]
I really do love teaching. When I am in the classroom interacting with the students, life is good. Today’s writing prompt was: There are many exciting people in the world. Tell about one. I wrote the prompt on the board and then displayed a poster board with a non-example on [...]
If you want a good belly laugh, go here and read this: Of Long Drops, Land Crabs, and the Prerequisites for a Life in Science. I’m still wiping my eyes and trying to breathe after laughing so hard. Besides, I got nothing for you today but the silly meme in [...]
New Year’s Day, 1982 found me living in a 10 x 15 cabin 17 miles above Victor, Montana. There was no running water, no electricity and the heat was provided by a wood burning stove in the corner of the main room. Snow rose to the windows. The bathroom was [...]