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Archive for July, 2007

They are serious about that vaccination

Posted in Uncategorized on July 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »

From the “Enjoy Peru” website, which one reaches from a link on the home page of the Embassy of Peru – Washington website, information for travelers includes this:
Have a vaccine, at least, 10 days before arriving at the jungle. It is necessary to carry your vaccine certificate with you, as you will be demanded [...]

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I’m glad I got out alive

Posted in Career, Humor, Retirement on July 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »

My too-many decades in office work makes today’s Dilbert almost too true to be funny.
I’m out the door for another long walk now.  Finding those long-lost muscles and losing the office flab is turning out to be a longer process than I had thought fantasized it would be.

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Archie

Posted in Cool Stuff, Dogs on July 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »

He weighs 165 pounds and works at a home for abused, neglected and emotionally disturbed kids in California. Rather than fuss about the idiot in the White House, the deterioration of the US economy, my sore toe and whatever else is bothering me, I’d rather think about this Newfie and look at this picture [...]

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A few technical difficulties

Posted in Uncategorized on July 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Cheap corporations.  Bah.  I bought a new Compaq desktop PC back in March. When I got it home and unpacked the box, I found that it did not come with a set of recovery disks. You know, those CDs (well, these days it’s DVDs) you can use to boot up the [...]

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Mika Brzezinski should get an Emmy

Posted in Current Events on July 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »

She refused to read a lead story about Paris Hilton. Yesss!

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I’m a Rockin’ Girl Blogger!

Posted in Blogging, Cool Stuff on July 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I’ve been tagged as a Rockin’ Girl Blogger by Saintseester.  Bless her heart. 
I’m not sure about this big pink badge thingie.  I prefer purple, I think.  But it’s an honor to be tagged!
This was started by Roberta Ferguson, and the idea is that now I pass it on by tagging five Rockin’ Girl Bloggers.  In no [...]

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Storm-tossed

Posted in Life and death on July 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This is the best thing in today’s entire Denver Post.
More at the Grace Notes site.

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Earth notes

Posted in Current Events, Denver on July 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I went with a friend to the free screening of the LiveEarth concert at the Tivoli on Saturday night.  The theater was just about full.   Turns out, we were watching the NBC broadcast, but in widescreen and surround sound glory with a bunch of other people of all ages.  Really.  Teens to wrinklies.  Cool. 
My sentimental favorite [...]

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Happy 62nd anniversary

Posted in Family on July 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »

They aren’t my parents, but I proudly share some DNA with the tall one and I love them both.

Married in England, 1945

Still married in Colorado, 2007

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Live Earth – July 7

Posted in Cool Stuff, Current Events, Denver, Good things, Movies on July 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

HT to Bizzy for blogging this.  Which reminded me of the email I got the other day from the Denver Film Society inviting me to watch Live Earth in big-screen comfort on Saturday.   I checked the DFS website and didn’t see any reference to it, and looked again at the email, which doesn’t say that the [...]

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Actual conversation at lunch

Posted in Family on July 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Four-year-old: “I’m gonna get a girl tattoo.”
Five-year-old: “No, you get a boy tattoo. I get a girl tattoo.”
Four: “I will too get a girl tattoo.”
Five: “You’re a boy. You get a boy tattoo.”
Four: “I’ll get a girl tattoo on this side, and a boy tattoo on that side.”
Five: “I’ll get two girl tattoos.”

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Fourth of July

Posted in Family, Home on July 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

It’s been a hot sunny day here.

This DFD fire truck sported a flag.

Our extended family grilled burgers,

romped around the backyard
 

and enjoyed patriotic cake.  Tonight there are several fireworks displays to choose from.
I hope you have had a good day, too.

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Poetry beneath the volcano

Posted in Blogging on July 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I love the randomness of the blogworld.  Thanks to which I found Living Beneath the Volcano, a blog by Dragojac which includes occasional poetry.  Including:
Churned Love
T’was on such a day,
In an unseasonably hot May,
That my favourite butter ran away.
Now I’m with Marge.

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Street savvy – crime prevention tip

Posted in Bad behavior, City on July 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve just posted an entry over on my travel blog about the day I probably prevented a purse-snatch or a similar theft. It could happen anywhere, not just in cities on the other side of the world.
The short version: I suspected that a loud argument was being staged as a diversion in front [...]

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Not a surprise

Posted in Bad behavior, Current Events on July 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Shrub commutes felon Scooter Libby’s sentence.  We saw it coming.
Right now I really miss Molly Ivins.  This story just cries out for her inimitable treatment.

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Self-evident

Posted in Good things, History on July 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

From the National Archives, respectfully submitted for your reading pleasure and thoughtful contemplation, by this native-born US citizen with a strong Anglophile streak. Don’t forget to click “continue reading,” look through the “Facts . . . submitted to a candid world” – and see if your eyebrows raise just a teensy bit at any point. [...]

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