It’s after 6am, and I’m seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. I have actually nearly made it to the halfway point in my Communications paper, and once I send this sucker off this afternoon, I can start living like a human being again… wow, fancy that. Sleeping at night!

Erich proposed to Caroline over the weekend! She said YES!
I had no idea if he’d sent her a link to my blog, but I wanted to wait until the coast is clear before I mentioned anything here…
I’d posted this twice before, because three weekends in a row I thought it was *the* weekend. Erich kept [...]

Have a look at this!
Satan’s Laundromat
“This is a Brooklyn-based photolog with an emphasis on strange signage, urban decay, and general weirdness.” — oooh, my kind of blog!

The reporting deadlines at work and the mid-term deadlines at school have me pining away for the days when all I had to do was produce nice graphs. So I thought I’d share one that I did not make, and has no relevance to anything I’m working on today.
Interesting that this graph has no time [...]

For all those who’ve only heard about the torrential rains and flooding in recent days in this corner of the country, here is a pic (it’s actually brighter than this, but I took the exposure down a stop to bring out the cloud definition). [EDIT: broken picture link, will upload later.] The view from the [...]

… from evolutionary psychology and physiology. Not exactly a stimulant after a late night (5-something in the a.m.) and an alarm-induced start to the day.
Fondue at “Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins’” last night was a welcome respite from recent downside undulations in life such as this damned cold trying to break my immune system (my voice [...]

Maureen Ann Hawker, age 73
Loving mother, grandmother, wife, and friend to many people, passed away Wednesday morning, October 8, in hospital, Wolverhampton, England.
Received the sad news by registered letter yesterday from my friend Lucy. Grandma Hawker was my surrogate grandmother, taking interest in my life when I was living in the U.K., and even after [...]

Has society become infatuated with gore these days, to the point that newswires such as AP/New York Times feel it necessary to make repeated references to decapitation and limbs being torn off in reporting yesterday’s Staten Island Ferry tragedy?? I’ve looked at a few of the news services which are listed at Google’s news site, [...]

On Tuesday I picked up the camera and took a photo of part of my home office space, which is not as much a bedroom as it is an office that has a bed in it. Tuesday was a fine sunny day, but with the room having six sides, it’s pretty tough to get into [...]

The past couple of days have been a mix of slogging through the quicksand-like mire of work / school / retirement party / vehicular madness combined with happier events such as celebrating Kevin’s birthday today. Allison baked him a birthday pie, but had worked herself into a tizzy because it was only the fourth pie [...]