I have good days and so-so days and bad days. Today started as a good day so I rushed about doing everything I’d let slide over the past week. I got caught up on a lot of work tasks, did some housework, and then…ran out of steam. I should of known it was too good […]
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An article reports that scientists have mapped a first draft of the Neanderthal genome. Highlights of the article: Researchers used DNA fragments extracted from three Croatian fossils to map out more than 60 percent of the entire Neanderthal genome by sequencing three billion bases of DNA. The analysis showed it is highly unlikely that much […]
Time. It sort of slips away without warning. One minute it’s morning, the next it’s last evening and then midnight. I know I was conscious for all that time — but, what happened to it? I think I have a black hole in the house that sucks up time and takes it away before I […]
Student Life has an article on The Top 10 Kids Movies Inappropriate for Kids. On this list are some of my favorite movies. There are ones that my son and I enjoyed together and watched many time. While I can understand the reasoning behind thinking some of the films such as Time Bandits, Coraline (thought […]
Valentine’s Day — a day to celebrate love. Today, I did a load of wash, made a big pot of chili, hosted a Capclave PR meeting for the current chair, wished a friend Happy Birthday, finished a book I was reading (Death’s Daughter by Amber Benson — the review will be in the March SFRevu.com), […]
Occasionally, or as often as I can find a way to fit it in, knit happens. I finished the other pair of socks I was working on, except for sewing in the ends and writing up the directions. They actually came out pretty nice — more on them later in another post. So, I bought […]
For Christmas, I got a Kindle. Well, if you’ve been keeping an eye on the Kindle newsbits, I had a Kindle ordered for me for Christmas with a delivery date in March. Waiting has been difficult and still is. Then, my hubby got the word from Amazon that the Kindle I’d be receiving would be […]
There are some days that, no matter what you do — meditation, yoga, sitting quietly in the dark — it doesn’t help. The pounding just goes on and on. The least it could do is have a nice beat that is easy to dance to or sing counterpoint to. Guess that’s too much to ask […]