Image by ScoutAbout Geocaching is an increasingly popular sport whereby members hide treasure pods full of goodies, post the coordinates, and send people to find them. I’ll get to the whole “hunt and seek” aspect of it in a different post, but for this one I’ll chunter on about the social aspects of how potlucks [...]

This will only work for you if you don’t have certain obvious allergies. ;) I’ve only ever been to one cat show before, but I decided to go to one last Sunday because Sean, a friend from out of town, and his wife were showing their bengals and really, I hadn’t seen my friend in [...]

My body clock woke me up at a little before seven, giving me ample opportunity to snooze. It was already light out, because dawn starts before sunrise. However, there was something quite magical about turning 180 degrees in my bed, opening up the stubborn little curtains of the over-cab window and watching the gradually brightening [...]

The weather started off horrible, eased a little, but by the time the parade was over had settled into a steady, fast drizzle which blurred camera lenses and failed entirely to dampen the spirits of everyone taking part. Even the contingent of Harley riders, wearing Santa hats and Hawai’ian shirts, didn’t seem to mind the [...]

When I was a kid, we went on a lot of road trips and played road games. Going to Europe, we’d love to see the stickers on the back of people’s cars showing which country they were from. Especially as we drew close to Slovenia, a “GB” plate was a rarity and occasion for much [...]

Memes of varying quality circulate the internet. I like the ones where a little thought or effort is required, or where I can fiddle with the rules. Some of them I do just for grins, but I tend not to post many here because they don’t usually fit in too well with the theme of [...]

29 July 2007 During the blogathon, I was lamenting the fact that about two dozen events that I wanted to attend were happening that same weekend. One of the things I was regretting was that I’d forgotten to attend the opening event of Joe Decker’s photography exhibition of his travels in Greenland, and that I’d [...]

I could waste a lot of time and energy hating my shape and size, and sometimes I do. I’d really rather weigh sixty pounds less. But I don’t. And it’s not like I will lose those sixty pounds overnight, either. (No, this isn’t a paid post for liposuction, I promise. ;-) A shopping trip I [...]

I’ve sat here for about an hour now trying to summon up the energy to write a trip report, but it isn’t happening. There’s usually a reason for such things, so I’m going to leave that until tomorrow and write this, instead. Don and I went camping overnight. I told him that he was welcome [...]