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May 2006
You know...that...thing
Wednesday, 31 May 2006 5:54 A GMT-05
Fantasy Help Desk: Please describe the exact nature of your problem.
Reality: Help me! There's this thing on my screen and I don't know how it got there!!
I can't blame people for not explaining their problems succinctly all the time; s
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Back to the grind
Tuesday, 30 May 2006 5:51 A GMT-05
Anybody up for seconds?
The weekend was glorious-- sunny, warm, relatively bug free (relatively is subjective--we did break out the bug tent so that we could eat our evening meals without being evening meals) and also went by entirely too fast.
Corporate Politics
Friday, 26 May 2006 6:08 A GMT-05
It's amazing how much political maneuvering and culture differences there are between departments in any business. You'd think that since we're all working for the same company, we'd all be on the same side. But, I guess it's to be expect
Welcome to New Hampshire. Now Go Home.
Thursday, 25 May 2006 5:49 A GMT-05
I've always felt ambivalent about the hoards of tourists that flood into our small state every year. Unfortunately for me it is a huge part of our industry. All of a sudden, 'around Memorial Day, people from Florida start showing up in dr
Warming the Tundra
Wednesday, 24 May 2006 5:56 A GMT-05
Yesterday, as I was leaving to go outside in the 34 degree May morning, I sarcastically told Lionel that I wanted to move to Alaska. When he asked why, I told him i had to assume it was warmer there. Alaska is known to be cold, right?&nbs
Rapport with Stephen
Tuesday, 23 May 2006 5:59 A GMT-05
Who would have thought a roast at the White House Correspondence dinner would get so much blog-time? The mainsteam media tried to ignore it, but we here in Virtual USA know a true gem when we see it. We know where to find the pulse of the
Bottling at the Big House
Monday, 22 May 2006 5:45 A GMT-05
In between being put out by the weather,which gave us teasing glimpses of those warm, dry beautiful summer days before releasing punishing deluges, we drowned our sorrows in thoughts of making alcohol.
First we went on a dandelion flower evisceratio
Helping Hands
Friday, 19 May 2006 6:03 A GMT-05
One of the first things I've been tasked with at work is to come up with a formalized Help Desk and a tool to manage it all. This is a small company but, I was surprised that they didn't have some kind of process already. The good part wa
One Very Long Inning
Thursday, 18 May 2006 5:58 A GMT-05
The object of any game is to win, of course. You develop strategies to get the better of your opponent. You take advantage of weaknesses or mistakes. You find holes and you exploit them. You play on the edge of the rules, if i
Beat a language to death
Wednesday, 17 May 2006 6:13 A GMT-05
pet peeve n. Informal Something about which one frequently complains; a particular personal vexation.
People's pet peeves are about as varied as people themselves. You never know when you might run into somebody's pet peeve by accident; you mi
Not in my backyard
Tuesday, 16 May 2006 5:59 A GMT-05
Most of the problems we experience we cause ourselves.
Take the "Worst Flooding in New England for 70 Years" for instance. All around rivers and lakes, there lives (or there used to) evidence of periodic flooding, in the form o
Deja Vu (all over again)
Monday, 15 May 2006 5:42 A GMT-05
Didn't we do this seven months ago?
At least this time we didn't get the rain in 24 hours or less, but one week of steady rain does the trick nicely too.
We did some touring, but, one swollen river in the rain looks much like another, and water acr
Blind Faith
Friday, 12 May 2006 6:05 A GMT-05
In order to understand Bush it is necessary to understand the puppetmasters who drive him.
The politicized Christian right have morphed their beliefs into some pretty scary and, let's be frank, pretty convenient tenets. Can't stomach the
Hot Tin Roof
Thursday, 11 May 2006 6:04 A GMT-05
Last year in the driving rain we noticed that the outside was seeping into the inside of the house in places where it shouldn't. In short, we were leaking from top to bottom. The bottom part is fields stone on top of cement and pron
As Seen on TV
Wednesday, 10 May 2006 6:03 A GMT-05
Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. Or, not so much. It's all sensationalism, and it's all fiction, and yet, there's enough grains of truth buried under the rubble somewhere that it's bound to cause some panic, or at least some headach
Unseasons in NH
Tuesday, 9 May 2006 6:03 A GMT-05
This is the second time I've heard this in two days, and I honestly can't figure out why anybody thinks this is news.
I'd like someone to conduct a poll of New Englanders, to find out if a majority of us really did "delight" in the mild wi
Gardening in New England
Monday, 8 May 2006 6:00 A GMT-05
Spring is in the air.
The smell of tomato plants, too. On Saturday the weather threatened rain and wind so we spent most of it indoors, transplanting tomatoes from little peat starters to big grown up peat pots, which eventually themselves wi
Bugged
Friday, 5 May 2006 5:46 A GMT-05
Last night we tried to have a nice dinner outside. I built a fire for a smoke screen. I finally broke out the bug jacket. The black flies have woken up.
It makes sense in a "life is unfair" kind of way that as soon as it
Let freedom ring
Thursday, 4 May 2006 6:03 A GMT-05
Maybe we're beginning to crawl out of that huge blast hole created for us on September 11, 2001.
Or maybe not. But it is good to see the justice system in the U.S. coming to a rational conclusion, despite the protestations and feelings of ange
Greasing the Wheels
Wednesday, 3 May 2006 6:07 A GMT-05
On Monday I drove the bike into work and on the way home I stopped for gas. The price was $2.93. It took 8 bucks to fill it up. I was just about to get going again when the man next to me, driving a brand new pickup truck, commented
Tuesday, nothing
Tuesday, 2 May 2006 5:59 A GMT-05
I dunno, it's not much of a day in my opinion. It's cloudy, for one thing, which automatically makes it a boring day. It's Tuesday, for another, and today's Tuesday doesn't have much going for it.
I mean there's some subtle things
The Spirit of St. Louis
Monday, 1 May 2006 5:39 A GMT-05
You'll all be glad to know that the wedding came off with a hitch.
Unlike our vaguely pagan, outdoor, crazy affair of almost four years ago, my brother's wedding was sedate and traditional, with the bride's family sending out the wedding invitation,