It’s leap day and by rights I can get the day off from blogging, according to Blog365. But it strikes me as so boring! I love daily updates on all the blogs I read so I can’t let my own readers miss out! The proposed law change in Norway to give gays marriage rights equal […]
Bergen has a club of sorts for people in the insurance and finance industry, and since that’s the industry I am employed in, I meet a lot of current and former co-workers at the meetings. Tonight we our venue was one of the Hurtigruten’s ships. We heard a talk about a new insurance company starting […]
Before I visited friends and family in the US last summer, I had read a lot about Wal-Mart and its business practices, which made me decide I never wanted to shop there. But when the toilet clogs at 11 pm, and you really have go (and it’s a no. 2), and your host has no […]
I have nothing to report, nothing to add, nothing to say, so I find myself wishing it were leap day today so I could just ignore blogging today. It’s not like absolutely nothing happens in my life or that I’m unhappy or whatever. I have a friend laid up in a hospital in Austria because […]
Because she really was fast! (And totally game.) It really wasn’t until I got an orchid as a gift and took a good look at this odd plant, that I began to realize why people like this flower. It is one of the planet’s most common flowers, with the tropical varieties being what we appreciate […]
Read through the comments below about your friend (that’s me, in this case; you didn’t know we were friends?) and then follow the instructions at the bottom. Have fun! What time is it?
1:52 pm What’s your full name?
Keera Ann Fox (not exactly a secret) What are you most afraid of?
Spiders, heights, and being helpless What […]
Via Boing Boing, I got to this Science Daily article on eating habits, specifically, French vs. American eating habits. Why don’t the French get as fat as Americans, considering all the baguettes, wine, cheese, pate and pastries they eat? Because they use internal cues — such as no longer feeling hungry — to stop eating, […]
Had I known I was going to be writing stories about her paintings, I would have taken notes when Grandma told me about her works. This seascape hangs in my living room above my couch, and I see it whenever I look up from my computer. What I know about this painting, is that it […]
Yep, this is making the rounds (again). I snatched it from Sparkling Red. Fortunately, this time I had a different book lying around. (I’m not tagging but you are welcome to feel tagged.) Rules: 1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages). 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the […]
I never learned any racial slurs growing up. Nobody in my family ever used such terms. There was a reason for it: My grandma was half English and half Irish, and never heard the end of it – from the Irish side of her family. They made “Englishman” sound like a swear word, making it […]
Surrounded by palm trees, dressed in light summer clothes, sporting dark sun glasses in the glaring and hot sunlight of Spain, we were totally enjoying the experience of being tourists. We didn’t know a word Spanish, hardly knew where in the city we were, simply looking for the next store with cheap leather goods and […]
A blood drive at work (I didn’t participate at this time) offered some trivia about the distribution of blood types, which got me thinking. I gave blood a couple of times back when I lived in California, so I knew my blood type (O) was very common and very much in demand. I was therefore […]
As I passed by the Bryggen Museum on my to my hairdresser’s, I noticed the poster advertising an exhibit of Tutankhamun’s wardrobe. So I went in after I got my haircut. I quickly found out why photography was allowed: The garments were replicas, not the original articles, inspired by what had been found in King […]
One of my fellow Blog365-ers pointed me to this numbers game. It’s similar to this pick a card game, so you should be able to figure out how it works.
I’m still happy with my new Mac, and am discovering more joys of having a new Mac – especially one as zippy as the one I got (got extra RAM and extra MHz, didn’t I): Videos on YouTube aren’t choppy Image-intensive web sites load fast I can finally use Google Earth I can check out […]
…the afternoon sun returns to my apartment, like it did today. It splashed its gold all over my living room’s north wall. Why? What day did you think it was? Oh, all right. Here: Your Candy Heart Says “Get Real” You’re a bit of a cynic when it comes to love. You don’t lose your […]
“Describe a place you remember from your childhood” is the prompt from Imagination prompt. A friend once asked me if I had ever ice skated, a question that brought back one of my fondest childhood activity – and memory. When I was a kid, I lived in a rural area about 15 miles north of […]
I’m getting the hang of this anniversary thing. I’m not supposed to do anything. At all. Except make suggestions for the meal. Yeah, you’re asking the right person, all right. I know as much about food as I do flowers, meaning I know roses, dandelions, pizza and hamburger. I’ll eat anything, but I rarely remember […]
Wondering what to post today (so I stay daily), the Universe Internet gave me this gem: Find and Replace Text with FART Which concluded with: FART is a free download for Windows only. I guess we Mac users have to eat beans. (Not to criticize Lifehacker, where I found the above; my sense of humor […]
This is the photo my co-workers chose to use on the invitation they made up for my 25th anniversary party. I’m not frowning; I’m squinting into the sun with a candy pacifier in my mouth and awful hair (for some damned reason), trying to adjust the photographer. Or the camera. I forget. This photo is […]
A Roll in the Universe 