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May 2005



The Tuesday That Is a Monday

Tuesday, 31 May 2005 6:30 A GMT-05
And it's back to the grind come Monday morning.  Only it's Tuesday.  Three day weekends are really very nice.  So much more can be accomplished when you have an extra day.  We spend so much time away from our houses most of the time, it almost se

Rain drops keep falling on my head

Monday, 30 May 2005 5:15 P GMT-05
Overall rating of the weekend: B-. I am rating it rather high, considering it poured on us on Sunday and Monday, for approximately the same amount of time and approximately the same amount of rain.  Since we were trying to get the vegetable garden i

Distractions of the sunny day

Sunday, 29 May 2005 10:33 P GMT-05
Given that it has rained for the past week and a half and beyond that the last three weekends, we are way behind on yard work. So this weekend loomed fairly large, if we could get any of that blue sky or even just clouds with no rain.  We were ready

Yin and Yang

Friday, 27 May 2005 10:07 A GMT-05
Yesterday while I was driving in to work, NPR was reporting that a plane had crashed in the Congo.   This is always tragic, this one involving the death of 26 people.  Including, NPR added, women and children.  Not men and children.  Not women

Rain. Rain. Go Away!

Thursday, 26 May 2005 8:11 A GMT-05
It has now officially been raining for five and a half days straight.  To beat the legendary record, it only has to keep up for another thirty five and half more days.  The forecasters have decided we're having a nor'easter.  Most nor'easter's inv

Clouds over Eden

Wednesday, 25 May 2005 6:19 A GMT-05
I suppose one way to make sure people don't say things you don't like is to accuse them of treason. But hopefully we'd be fair about it.  If we're going to suspend someone's First Amendment rights on the grounds of undermining National Security, we

Gloom and Doom

Tuesday, 24 May 2005 6:29 A GMT-05
A fierce wind blew up last night and sent us back into April.  I complained to Lionel this morning and told him I want to move somewhere sunny. It's supposed to rain into the weekend.  Plus the National Weather Service is doing its usual subtle ma

Cultural Diversity

Monday, 23 May 2005 6:01 A GMT-05
Well, after glimpses of my future as a backhoe operator yesterday, going to work today doesn't seem very exciting.  The good news is that it is still raining.  I call this good news because it has rained for the past three or four weekends, but com

The Fun Factor

Sunday, 22 May 2005 7:03 A GMT-05
In order to make our weekend of planting trees as efficient as possible, we reserved a small backhoe from a local rental place.  It was supposed to arrive at 9am sharp on Saturday morning, and I couldn't wait.  I'd never operated a backhoe before.

Happy Saturday

Saturday, 21 May 2005 6:28 A GMT-05
Today is Aileen Gets To Drive an Excavator and Dig Holes All Day Day.  You wouldn't know it from the bird song and the calmness of the morning, would you?  We'll let you know what kind of trouble we get into later.

The David Sedaris Syndrome

Friday, 20 May 2005 6:02 A GMT-05
David Sedaris, in a twist to his usual funny but hateful commentary on his own family, once wrote that most of his family will no longer talk to him, and when they do the first thing out of their mouths is: Promise you won't write about this.  He pr

Green Mountain Advertising

Thursday, 19 May 2005 6:24 A GMT-05
Vermonters are crazy.So I'm driving home yesterday on the bike, cutting through town to stay off the highway, and I notice they've changed the billboard advertisement.  "Buckle up in Vermont."  It says.  "It's the Law."  It's

Lawnmower Fantasies

Wednesday, 18 May 2005 6:37 A GMT-05
I don't believe we've been home before 10pm for the past week.  Nothing major has happened but, somehow, various get-togethers, belated Mother's Day Dinner parties, necessary movie watching, and of course tree-hole digging has kept us away from our

Submarines are for everyone

Tuesday, 17 May 2005 6:51 A GMT-05
We have a naval base here in NH.  And if you live near one of the thirty bases recently put on the closure list, you know what that means.This base has been on the closure list before.  It doesn't make state of the art electronics or the next gener

The Empire Comes Back

Monday, 16 May 2005 4:28 P GMT-05
http://www.thewmurchannel.com/news/4491400/detail.htmlApparently apology is not enough, now Newsweek needs to retract their story, as if they can turn back time and pretend they never published it.  Speaking of subtle differences of action, here's t

Electric Contraceptive

Saturday, 14 May 2005 8:27 A GMT-05
http://www.thewmurchannel.com/irresistible/4486469/detail.html"One set of parents admitted that the numbers are no coincidence. The couple said they, too, were stuck at home with no electricity and ended up getting pregnant."This is a new u

A Theory of Everything

Friday, 13 May 2005 7:55 A GMT-05
String theory is purported to bring us closer to a unifying theory of the universe.  Humans have always sought a unifying theory of the universe: we used to all call this theory God.  For awhile no one had a problem with the idea of a God and a con

Political Food Fight

Thursday, 12 May 2005 9:10 A GMT-05
http://www.thewmurchannel.com/news/4479570/detail.htmlBy all means, Newt, please do run for election in 2008.  If the country needs someone to hate to get the ball rolling back within the bounds of reason,  I think you're just the ticket.  It's be

Weather, six o clock news, people, and other annoying things

Thursday, 12 May 2005 6:38 A GMT-05
Today is a blustery day in more ways than one; for some reason I woke up on the war path. It may have something to do with the forecasted weather; I am getting tired of rainy weekends, and tonight's low is supposed to hover around 25.  That's quite

Live Free and Die

Wednesday, 11 May 2005 6:45 A GMT-05
In its first public act of disobedience, a member of the Free State Project gave a manicure outside the board of licensing without a license.  In real life (if a free-stater can be said to live in reality) he is a computer technician, and needs no

Leaving No Child Behind

Tuesday, 10 May 2005 9:01 A GMT-05
A high school senior who has already been accepted to college will not graduate because she chose to take AP Biology instead of a "required" physical education class called Building Essential Skills for Tomorrow.While it is not surprising t

Clean as a Whistle. Maybe.

Monday, 9 May 2005 6:28 A GMT-05
Sunday morning we were discussing our plans for the day when a squeaksqueaksqueak interrupted our conversation.  "There's a mouse in here," Lionel said.  "I know," I said, "I heard it earlier.  I can't find it though."

I am the Cheese

Saturday, 7 May 2005 8:32 A GMT-05
The moral of the story is that man cannot build a better mouse trap.  The pinnacle of mouse trap technology ended with the snap trap.  All other newfangled ideas were probably designed by the mice themselves.  For instance the "quick trap&quo

The man who would be king

Friday, 6 May 2005 11:59 P GMT-05
This is the man we had as governor for one whole term.  Good riddance.Before he was in office, he fired a woman from her job because she was a woman, was charged with 6ual discrimination and lost the case,  bankrupted and then moved his company fro

Great Title. Boring Book....

Friday, 6 May 2005 6:18 A GMT-05
The title was: Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus: Gender, Law, and Society.I shouldn't say its boring.  It just isn't bedside reading material.  It had some good points though.  One of them made me stop and think: maybe I'm not a feminist.  Fem