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Happy Anniversary, Patsy
Love,
Rob
Hope the next 29 are as grand as the first

Happy Mother's Day, Mom
Love,
Rob

Did you see Betty White on SNL last night? WOW. Home run. Touch 'em all, Betty.

Speaking of baseball, a CrabAppleLane Tip-O-The-Cap to Jamie Moyer. Pitching a two-hit shutout against a major league baseball team at age 47 is ridiculous.

CrabAppleLane yardwork this weekend postponed due to battery failure. Bummer.

I offer three images from the backyard on this glorious Mother's Day. The first two are images of some of the CrabAppleLane mothers. Like most mothers, they really don't take a day off, either. Mother bluebird got that worm out of the pesticide-free, chemical-fertilizer-free CrabAppleLane vegetable garden. She's tending to at least two babies but it sounds like 10. The downside about the vegetable garden: Chemical fertilizers (Miracle Grow, Ortho) smell a whole lot better than the organic fertilizer I used yesterday. It's wafting a little bit this morning but it was a whole other something last night.

CrabAppleLane Bluebird - May 9, 2010

CrabAppleLane Cardinals - May 9, 2010 - Happy Mother’s Day, THS

CrabAppleLane Vegetable Garden - May 9, 2010

5 song iTune shuffle:

1. I Love You Anyway - Tanya Tucker - Soon
2. I Wish That I Could Tell You - Reba McEntire - Read My Mind
3. Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar - The Rolling Stone Women In Rock Collection [Disc 2]
4. Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar - Rock Of The 70's
5. I'm Sensitive - Jewel - Pieces Of You

Quote of the Day

Blog of the day is here.

Quote from said blog: "Pity the poor woman who tried to deny me a library card because I was only 4-years- old. “But she can read,” my mother insisted, making it clear that she would stand there until that magic license to borrow books was mine. Saving face, the librarian made up a new rule: If I could write my name, I could have a card. Mamma had won, as she always did, and I could now officially enter the sacred world of readers."

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With apologies to Dr Pepper, CrabAppleLane Blog started rather inauspiciously 7 years ago. It didn't look much like it does today. I was using Greymatter software then. I learned in high school biology that every cell in our body dies and is replaced every seven years so the blog enters year 8 with a whole new me at the helm.

I had no real plans when I started. It was originally envisioned as a group blog because I honestly don't have that much to say. When I invited a few friends to get in on it, it was difficult to get involvement. Not many people even knew what a blog was then and my salesmanship on that matter was inadequate to say the least. I just plowed ahead on my own and this became what it is now over time and through evolution. The blog has been through too many software upgrades, configuration tweaks, and web hosts to mention.

The blog has gone places, it has launched other blogs, and I've met other bloggers Dave from Minneapolis in Minneapolis, Kim from Austin in Covington, and The Great White Shank from Goodboys Nation in New Orleans. I've made many other friends that I haven't met but would love to some day. There's Fi in New Zealand, Shannon in England, John in The Netherlands, and someday even the ones closer to home, Pitcherlady, Charlotte, Marie, Dan (It's his birthday today), Delmer, Kem, and Tree Hugging Sister just to name a few.

There has been joy and sadness over the last seven years. Some of the joy of seeing the Saints play in the Super Bowl and winning it was tempered by not being able to share it with the person who passed on his love of the game to me.

And, finally, thanks to all of the readers who have come here over the years. I do this, in part, for myself but I surely appreciate anyone willing to read and comment on my silly ruminations. It brightens my day. Thanks again.

5 song iTune shuffle:

1. The Priest - Joni Mitchell - Ladies Of The Canyon (Remastered)
2. Top Of The Bill - Scorpions - In Trance
3. Someday - Henry Gross - One More Tomorrow The Best Of Henry Gross
4. I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) - The Commitments - The Commitments Soundtrack
5. What's Your Name - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Rock Of The 70's

Quote of the Day

The school posted an item on its athletic department website promising purple turf at Tiger Stadium this fall.

WDSU.com via MSNBC.com

Blog of the day is here.

Quote from said blog: "I have no idea how this will work but I am going to give it a try."

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The Kansas City Chiefs of the AFL versus The Minnesota Vikings of the NFL. It was the last game before the AFL/NFL merger. The game was played January 11, 1970, at old Tulane Stadium in New Orleans. The Saints were the host. It was cold and rainy and blacked out locally because it wasn't sold out. My dad was a Saints season ticket holder and had a Super Bowl ticket through them. He paid $15 for it. That was face value for an endzone ticket. Because it was cold and rainy and because the game really didn't have the interest that it does today, he was able to round up three more tickets on game day for free from people who decided they just didn't want to go. Mom, my sister, and I got to go, too. Dad's total outlay on tickets was $15 that day for all four of us. Not bad even in 1970.

I was 12. My sister, Sue, was 11. The two of us sat together in the endzone. Dad and Mom could watch us from the other endzone with his binoculars but we were pretty much on our own. Imagine two kids that young on their own in a big city, at a big stadium, at a big event these days. There's no way it happens. It was a different time.

During the pre-game activities, there was a program that was supposed to show AFL/NFL unity and cooperation. There was a man dressed in full American Indian regalia representing the Kansas City Chiefs and a man dressed in full Viking regalia representing the Minnesota Vikings. My memory is fuzzy on what was supposed to happen next but I think both of those guys were supposed to leave the stadium via hot air balloon. I finally found some footage of that event. Our 15 seconds of fame, if you will. The balloon got about 3 feet off of the ground and headed straight for the endzone where we were sitting. Sue and I are in here somewhere. When the balloon goes into the stands, we're just to the left of it. We were maybe 12-15 seats over and at about the same level as the balloon's basket. I was wearing a black overcoat. I don't remember what Sue was wearing. The resolution isn't really good enough to make us out. This is the only Super Bowl I've ever attended and probably ever will attend. Sue and I were in that endzone, Mom and Dad were in the other, and I'm not sure where my cousin, Ann, and her husband, Bob, were but they were there, too. They were Minnesota Vikings season ticket holders and had flown down for the game. It was a lousy day to be at a football game. It was a lousy game. I'm so glad I got to go.

I offer two from the CrabAppleLane Backyard on this sunny and cool Sunday. When the chipping sparrows land on the feeder, they have to flit and fly and squeeze their way in. When the blue jays land, they just slam into the feeder and every bird that was there flies off.

CrabAppleLane Backyard - January 31, 2010

CrabAppleLane Backyard - January 31, 2010

5 song iTune shuffle:

1. Treat Her Right 3:31 George Thorogood & The Destroyers The Baddest Of George Thorogood & The Destroyers
2. Can't Buy Me Love 2:12 The Beatles 1
3. Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad 5:27 Meat Loaf Love Bites: More Romantic Power Ballads
4. The Road 4:46 Jackson Browne Running On Empty
5. Pigs On The Wing (Part One) 1:25 Pink Floyd Animals

Quote of the Day

Bud Selig says baseball's Steroid Era is over. A shame. If anyone in the game could have used steroids, it was the commissioner. They must be good for development of the spine. ...

Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune

Blog of the day is here.

Quote from said blog: "As a former player who proudly wore the fleur de lis for 13 years, I am happy and proud for the team, city, and its wonderful fans."

It was a Friday afternoon in September. I was leaving my office and heading toward my truck to head home for the weekend. My office was next to an overpass and most of the employees in my department parked under it. There was also a u-turn lane underneath that overpass and traffic was always too fast there. We saw lots of accidents. On this Friday, I encountered a little gray and white kitten in the street. She was tiny and about three weeks old we were told later by the vets. There was no mother in sight and she kind of stayed with me. I tried to walk her out of oncoming traffic but I couldn't shake her. She went wherever I went. She would not have made it through the night. I couldn't abandon her.

OK, we'll bring her home, feed her, get her through the night, try to find someone to take her, and if that fails, take her to a shelter. We can't keep her. We're dog people. We have two dogs who love to chase and bark at cats. We have parakeets. A kitten will surely upset the balance. We fed her some bologna that we had in the fridge and stayed with her as the dogs barked at her incessantly and she hissed back at them. At 3 weeks, she had a hiss that was pure evil. We bought a few things to get us through however long we were going to keep her and we put her up for the night isolated from the dogs. After a good night's rest and a full belly, she was ready to put on her charm offensive. She was a purring, jumping, galloping, trilling, bundle of energy. She still hissed a little at the dogs but she could run circles around them and wasn't in the least concerned with them. We couldn't find anyone to take her but we also couldn't take her to a shelter. She found her suckers. We referred to kitty cats as KCs when we didn't want the dogs to know what we were talking about because they knew certain words and would get excited. We named our new kitten Casey.

She repaid our act of love and kindness by tormenting our dogs and parakeets, biting us, scratching us, bouncing on our heads at all hours of the night, and turning her nose up at just about any kind of food we tried to feed her. She liked oysters, though. She could eat them until you ran out. She mellowed some as she got older but not much and we added two more cats after the dogs and parakeets were gone.

Below is my favorite picture of her. It was taken at an apartment we were living in while our house was being built. It was the happiest time of her life. That apartment had a two part stairway that she could gallop up to the first landing and peak around the corner at unsuspecting humans. She loved that place. We used to call her "belly girl" when she would get on her back like this. It meant she wanted someone to rub her belly a secret number of times or it meant she was ready to play. If you went over the secret number, she'd go into kill mode and would clamp down on your appendage with her teeth and front paws and start kicking you with her back claws. It was more than a little unpleasant. Here, she is baiting a trap for our dog, Duncan, to walk into because, really, who can resist that belly?

Casey took her final ride to the vet this morning and I miss that bouncing, biting, and scratching already. She was 16. R.I.P., Casey girl.

Duncan and Casey - October 1994

Everydaystranger was Blog of the Day here at CrabAppleLane on November 19, 2003. She had lost her job. Sorry about that, Shannon. We've been blog buds ever since. She's always a joy to read and is doing something she's calling Around the World in 80 Blogs. I meant to do this yesterday morning but a brain cloud or something prevented me.

I live in Bush, LA, USA. Bush is about 50 miles due north of New Orleans as the crow flies. There are many pictures littered throughout this blog and the original blog but I thought I'd present two from about 20 minutes ago. It has been raining almost nonstop for most of December here. Rainfall this month has already broken all records and it's still only the 16th. We're also still recovering here from a weather event you may have heard of; Hurricane Katrina. We were in the voluntary evacuation area and chose to stay. It was the right decision for us. It was an unforgettable experience. It is never far out of mind and most of us refer to it as "The Storm" as in "how did you fare in the storm?".

I present pictures from CrabAppleLane

CrabAppleLane Backyard - December 16, 2009

CrabAppleLane Backyard - December 16, 2009

5 song iTune shuffle:

1. Born For Adventure 5:16 Styx Equinox
2. I'm In Love With My Car 35 Queen A Night At The Opera
3. Top Of The Bill 3:29 Scorpions In Trance
4. Politik 5:19 Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The Head
5. Hells Bells 61 AC/DC AC/DC Live

Quote of the Day

They know best how they can mess with us
Nursing an opinion's getting dangerous
And in a world where good's not good enough
Let's get loaded and kick up a fuss

Garbage, Boys Wanna Fight

Blog of the day is here.

Quote from said blog: "I wanted to get to know where you live, what you love about it, maybe what you don't love. It sounds strange, but this web thing, it connects us all and yet we're all so different in our environments - I blog drinking coffee and sitting at the kitchen counter. Maybe you read in a study, on a patio, or inside a frosted kitchen."

Celebrating the 24th anniversary today of the night I quit smoking. Not sure why the date still sticks in my mind but there it is. For what it's worth, I smoked Marlborough. Aside from the health risks, it's a rather expensive habit these days.

I offer a couple of images from my bike ride yesterday evening.

Whippoorwill Grove - Bush, LA - September 16, 2009This subdivision across the street from CrabAppleLane offers pretty cool vistas. This is one of them at sunset.

Crabapple Lane - Bush, LA - September 16, 2009Crabapple Lane starts pretty much where I stood for this shot. It's about 2/10ths of a mile to my garage from here. No matter how tired I get on the bike, all I have to do is reach the spot where I stood to take this picture. If I can reach that spot, I can coast home without adding another pedal stroke.

The QOTD is from the London Times. There is an amazing picture there that he took of a bat.

Quote of the Day

In all my time working as a wildlife photographer I don't think anyone has ever tried to do this. I am very pleased with the results.

Kim Taylor, Wildlife photographer

Blog of the day here.

Quote from said blog: "Drew Brees is a class act. Make no mistake, he wants nothing more than to destroy the Philadelphia Eagles defense on Sunday and give his franchise a huge win and a 2-0 start for this turn-around season for the Saints. But Brees also understands how hard it is to play through injuries in the NFL, and he wishes the best for McNabb."

It's been 8 years. There is footage of the events in New York at the The Camera Planet Archive among other places on the web. There is no shortage of video. Like most Americans, I've seen my share of them. I watch them once in a while, especially on special occasions like today. There's nothing on the video portions that shocks or surprises me any more. I know what happened. Sometimes, though, the audio gets me. A turn of phrase expresses a thought or a detail that hadn't occurred to me and the hand reaches in and tears my insides out. The QOTD did that this morning. The world is a sadder place today and it's an angrier place. Ring a bell, observe a moment, or say a prayer.

Quote of the Day

This shit came from over there.

Over There

Blog of the day here.

Quote from said blog: "This update points out sites and stories that deal one way or the other with September 11, 2001 and illustrate the width of the coverage and initiatives."

It's been four years now. What I was doing up until 6:26AM that day. I replay in my mind what I did before, during, and after "the storm" a little less now than I used to but it still occupies too many of my thoughts. I wouldn't change any of the before or during but the after would have certainly been done differently.

The QOTD articulates a tiresome sentiment to most Louisianians. Extended stays tend to wear out their welcome. I think that's natural. If the sentiment was stated that way, it would be understandable and acceptable. Of course, that's not what's said most of the time. The prevailing sentiment we hear is that those communities that accepted Katrina evacuees generously opened their arms to their fellow Americans and all they got in return was a drain on their resources and an increase in crime and traffic. There's some truth to that but the all they got part of their lament needs some improvement.

Those communities were and are very generous and we are thankful for that. The influx of people did and continues to present many challenges for them and we regret that. However, the vast, overwhelming majority of people who moved away are "essential workers" *, doctors, teachers, trade professionals of every kind, and merchants. Most of the ones that stayed away are contributing members of their current communities in more ways than one. They not only started their lives over, they did so without bringing much with them. They bought or rented houses, rented apartments, or stayed in hotels/motels in their new communities. They bought food, new furniture, new appliances, new clothes, new cars and trucks. They paid local sales taxes and school tuition. They spent large chunks of their insurance settlements, FEMA money, and life's savings in their new communities. Those communities tend to emphasize the drain and their generosity but they rarely mention the gigantic growth spurt and economic boost they got and continue to get. That's not fair. Besides, many, probably most, Louisiana citizens did move back but they left a little something behind. We can tell that by the Florida, Georgia, and Texas license plates on their new vehicles.

* "Essential workers" is the current euphemism for minimum wage workers and the dearth of them in the economy here is crippling the recovery, if you believe local businesses.

12 days until football season ...

Quote of the Day

Houston is a great place to live; the only problem is that Katrina has worn out her welcome.

Shuttle Driver - Houston, Texas

Blog of the day here.

Quote from said blog: "The author, Robert Lindsay, an independent journalist and blogger, claims that the deathtoll related to Katrina could be as high as over four thousand people. The guy appears to be a bit wacko, but I get what he's trying to say. In the months following the storm, the obituaries of the Times Picayune were multiplied by at least 4 on a daily basis until December 2005."

I was at Joey's house to watch this event live. Don't remember why. Joey passed away a few weeks ago. Where were you? I realize only a few of us can answer that.

52 days until football season ...

Quote of the Day

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Neil Armstrong - July 20, 1969

Blog of the day here.

Quote from said blog: "Praise the landings and the amazing accomplishments we did 40 years ago, save the hoax busting for later."

Couldn't agree more. Ignore the hoax pushers entirely and let them have their sad existence. -Rob

R.I.P., Walter Cronkite. I think we were more of a Huntley-Brinkley household when I was growing up because I have almost no recollections of Walter Cronkite on the air until I was quite a bit older. Still, saddened to see him pass.

I offer a couple of scans from an old photo album today ... because I have nothing else.

A night at Fenway - September 30, 1986I bought our tickets to this Sox-Orioles game in March of that year. It was my first major league ball game. As luck would have it, the Red Sox clinched the division the night before. The Sox scratched their scheduled starter to rest him for the playoffs and the starters in the field only played a couple of innings each. Dwight Evans, who roamed right field at Fenway for a long time, started but then gave way to Mike Greenwell, who also had a stellar career. Not quite Joe DiMaggio to Mickey Mantle or Ted Williams to Carl Yastrzemski but not too shabby, either. I think Greenwell ultimately made his living in left field, though. In Little League and sandlot, your weakest outfielder goes in right field. In the bigs, your weakest outfielder goes in left field ... except at Fenway. Because of that wall in left, there is no room in Boston for weak outfielders. Catcher Rick Dempsey of the Orioles hit a towering home run over the green monster that night. Don't remember much else except the usher who showed us to our seats. She took out her handkerchief and wiped them for us. Never before, never since.

Vacation Pics - 1986We had two weeks in New England scheduled. The second week was booked at a motel on Cape Cod. We figured we'd just go where the roads took us and just wing it the first week. The two photos on the left were taken in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The two on the right are of the place where we stayed. It was a brand new ski resort and the cottages had never been used. It was off-season for them and they had a vacancy for $24. We loved the cottage, loved the area, and asked if we could stay another night. It was booked but they had a deluxe two bedroom cottage available.

Us: How much is that one?
Them: $26 per night
Us: We'll take it.

I'm thinking the photo of the cottage at the upper right is from the place we stayed the first night but I'm not certain and, like so many of my photo albums, I didn't write it in the album. I thought I'd always remember.

54 days until football season ...

Quote of the Day

That's the way it is

Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009

Blog of the day here.

Quote from said blog: "Greenwell also touches on a few other topics, including his runner-up finish to Jose Canseco in the MVP voting back in 1988 and whether or not he thinks Roger Clemens took steroids."

This picture was taken in October 1988 in Petit Jean State Park near Hot Springs, Arkansas

Duncan Braddock (Shetland Sheepdog) - May 17, 1982 - December 1995
Nicholas Sergei "Nikki" (Samoyed) - May 17, 1984 - April 1995

Gone but not forgotten. Happy Birthday, Boys

We did a whirlwind shopping tour last night on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain in Metairie, LA. We had limited time because we both worked yesterday, most of the stores close at 9, and Metairie is about 45 miles away from CrabAppleLane. We decided we wanted something quick and inexpensive to eat but the place we decided on, the place we really wanted to go to, the place we were really looking forward to and were talking about all the way across the Causeway ... was closed. That was our first disappointment. We got something else somewhere else but we could have done that on the north shore. We did some shopping at the store we expressly made the trip for and the selection there was limited and priced quite a bit higher than we expected. That was our second disappointment. We decided on one more stop and we're glad we did.

That stop is what saved the trip from being a total waste of time and gasoline. It was a very pleasant and somewhat nostalgic experience at Morning Call. The folks used to take me and my siblings to Morning Call in the French Quarter occasionally when they used to bring us to visit an aunt who lived down there. Cafe du Monde, probably a bit more famous, was/is also down there serving the same things but I only remember going to Morning Call. They moved from the French Quarter to Metairie in 1974 (Has it really been that long ago because I remember it like it was yesterday?). It was a great move for them then because the French Quarter is somewhat dependent on tourist season, Cafe du Monde was stiff competition, and there was nothing like it in Metairie. When they first opened at the new location, there were lines out the door and around the side both day and night. It's rarely like that now. Morning Call's and Cafe du Monde's specialty is coffee and beignets and I don't think anything about those two selections, except price, has changed in over a hundred years at either place. Reliable and comforting. After a night of disappointment, it was exactly what we needed.

We're in the market for and browsing for living room furniture for the last few weeks. I know there are people who will buy an outrageously expensive sofa and put it in a room where it will hardly ever be used but we're not them. There must be a good market for that, though, because we are seeing a lot of it. We need practical every day furniture that will last AND not break our fairly limited budget. It must be out there somewhere because I know we're not the only ones searching for it. The search continues.

Quote of the Day

Morning Call Coffee Stand, New Orleans' "most famous coffee drinking place", has been serving café au lait and beignets to generations of locals and visitors since 1870.

Morning Call website

Blog of the day here.

Quote from said blog: "It's said to be largest mural of the saint in England. The Christ Child IS on his shoulder, but my picture doesn't quite show "the King of bliss" as the inscription describes him. What you can see is a chap fishing in the river below."

This entry was the first. I was using Greymatter blogging software then and although it was public, I didn't tell anyone. I had an idea of making this a group thing at first. That idea didn't materialize. The next idea was to just do it and see where it takes me. That's where I am today.

One of the places it took me is to the blogging community. I say blogging community for lack of a better term. I do not say blogosphere. Thought I'd mention a few of the many because more people should be enjoying them like I do.

Pitcherlady has been a joy since almost the beginning here. The OH Bob entry hooked me and I've been going back ever since.

I found Kim a few days/weeks later. I think I actually thought she was the movie star. She had a different picture up then (Clarification update: The picture of Kim peeking over her sunglasses resembled Kim Novak from Vertigo before Jimmy Stewart transformed her into his wife's lookalike. Well, to me, she did. ). We met and had lunch a few years ago at New Orleans Food and Spirits in Covington, LA. She IS a star.

I found Fi sometime late in 2003. The earliest reference I can find here is from November 8, 2003. She was Scorpio Girl then. There was considerable sadness here when she retired that blog but she has since come back as Kiwifruit and is certainly worth the read.

Dave of Fish Fear Me came along via Sheila O'Malley. Blog of the Day almost five years ago. Dave and I met and had lunch the following month when I was in Minneapolis for a family reunion. We've carried on a correspondence on each other's blogs and in email ever since. His standing invitation to take me ice fishing on my arrival in Minneapolis is called by my standing invitation to boil some crawfish for him on his arrival here.

I found Delmer a few months after Katrina passed through here. His was BOTD on November 4, 2005. Love that quote. The original link doesn't work any more but this is the entry quoted. Delmer writes funny stuff.

I ran across Doug at Goodboys Nation on Patsy's birthday almost three years ago. We have since met and had lunch at Liuzza's in New Orleans. Liuzza's doesn't take credit cards but they have an ATM machine in the restaurant. My plan was to treat lunch as Dave had for me when I was in Minneapolis and as I had with Kim when she was in Covington. Didn't have quite enough cash and the ATM couldn't read my debit card. My wallet is notoriously hard on magnetic strips and only about half of the machines in town can read it. Doug was gracious and covered the tip. He's supposed to be coming to New Orleans again sometime this year with his better half, Tracy. Hope we can do it again.

And, finally, Michelle Elizabeth Goodrich (Meg) of Mandarin Design was a friend. She passed away a few years ago but her blog still inspires many, including me. She was a regular here. Even sang for me once.

About the QOTD: Probably a tad pretentious to quote oneself ... as is using words like oneself ... as is blogging, I suppose. Today ... so be it.

Quote of the Day

I have no idea how this will work but I am going to give it a try.

Rob, April 2, 2003

Blog of the day here.

Quote from said blog: "The impact? Server consolidation, Death of Appliances, Re-emergence of ASPS and Web Services Tools."

Tracey has a delightful entry posted about Signage. It made me think about a sign I remember from my youth and going downtown to visit my colorful, bedridden aunt. She was a bookie. We passed the sign every time we went. I then implored the Gods of Google to find an image of said sign. Thar she blows. I love the internet.

Really, really cool use of FlickR. Think I'll try it this weekend. I was kind of down on FlickR at one time. I have an entry stating so around here somewhere but I can't find it. More about that in a moment. I was wrong, wrong, WRONG and absolutely love it now.

Movable Type really could use a better search engine. The one here brings up all sorts of entries unrelated to the search term entered. The more content you have, the harder it is to find anything. If the owner of the blog can't find something, how is the reader supposed to? A thought occurred to me not long ago. Yeah, it happens sometimes. I went to the place I remembered someone writing about it and performed several searches. Sheila's body of blog work is about a hundred times larger than mine and she categorizes better than I do, which would help here, as well, but I was told a larger number of categories puts a larger strain on the server and I don't ever want to see another "internal server error" message again. Anyway, I don't remember what I was searching for but I apologize to Sheila for the bizarre, obscure searches. She talks about that sometimes at her place. It freaks her out when she sees them in her logs. Not me, though. I never look at my logs.

Quote of the Day

Don't Cuss
See Gus

Gus's Auto Glass

Blog of the day here.

Quote from said blog: "So, I'm sitting in bed with the laptop this muggy Thursday morning and wondering how on earth that giant blowfly has managed to hurl itself against the window so many times without concussing itself."

Fi is blogging again. YAY. -Rob

As of today, I have a year for every card. One might say I'm now playing with a full deck. Also, Happy Birthday, Levar Burton.

Quote of the Day

Among other things, if the charges are true, I think it's fair to say he's failed at his job.

Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review

Blog of the day here.

Quote from said blog: "Jon Stewart takes down John Sununu on the recovery bill and government regulation."