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Friday, November 21, 2008

The Pack will be whole again!

Davy adores Charlie, who is coming home tomorrow night. He will be here over a week, and will spend much of the time busy with his friends, but we will see a good bit of him, no doubt. Especially next Thursday dinner... He's done very well in the start of his second college year. He has been taking a class in anthropology on prehistoric technologies. He made an atlatl, a spear-throwing tool one might call a stone-age rail-gun. He has been writing a speculative fiction tale of which I've read the... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Are you familiar with Jane Roberts' The Education of Oversoul 7? It's kind of like that... You are the guiding spirit of these people you have created into the world, a world more limited than your own, but with pretty good graphics... They have less self-determination, of course, but if you let them, they do reveal personalities. My main (first created) is a minstrel hobbit who has advanced through the stages of experience and learning to Level 51. She can knock down an orc with a holler, in... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Haunting other worlds...

In May of 2007, I stepped through the portal into Middle-earth... Well, into a version and vision of Middle-earth as conceived by the makers of an online mass player video game. It isn't that I am into games generally--but as some of you surely know by now, a large piece of my heart resides in Tolkien's Middle-earth--so when this game appeared on the market, I had to give it a try. A player begins by creating a character (also called an avatar, or casually, a 'toon). In this game, you can choose... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Go google yourself!

for no particular reason, I did that today, and on the second or third page of listings, some of which were me and some were not--I found one that was me: on a hacker's list of 'available' email addresses. I ran around a bit and changed passwords. But is this even legal, such a list? What else should I be doing? Sign in to see full entry.

A Fine Day Out

Yesterday Davy discovered Other Dogs. Mass amounts of Other Dogs! We spend an hour or so at Marymoor Park, a huge off-leash dog park in the Seattle area. It was thrilling and terrifying, and some of the Other Dogs were scary and some were possibly okay... from Davy's perspective. There were many, many charming pups of every description, breed and mix! Marika, who is a dog trainer, told me the way to break up a dog fight if it becomes necessary: you wade in and pick up the agressor by the hind... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, November 14, 2008

The latest...

My daughter flew in from Singapore yesterday. The original plan was that just for once she was going to come along with her husband on one of his business trips, as he was scheduled for Seattle. She got her tickets, and then his company tightened its belt by cancelling a lot of trips. His, for instance. So she is here for a week on her own, and while I'd have loved to have seen him, too, I am glad she made the trip. She is staying with a high school friend, and drove down yesterday to spend a... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Urgo the Sparkle Cat

He's the grey and white one, the Lost Prince of Kennewick, the tiny kitten who accosted me from out of the roadside weeds and moved into my glove compartment for a time... He eventually outgrew that bunk and prefered watching tv to going for drives and he grew into a considerable Cat Then Davy arrived on the scene. For a little while, Davy was not much bigger than Urgo. But Davy got bigger, fast... I saw the moment when Urgo realized it. Davy was wrestling fiercely with a tough toy that hangs... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, November 7, 2008

Here we go again...

Just as I was signing on to my game, the computer said, Click! and quit. And now it won't start. Laptop, here, which declines to connect in any part of the house but the desk where the computer sits so quietly now, at least is willing to find the Internet from here. So I may not be able to visit in Middle-earth, but I can get to Blogitland. Meanwhile, it isn't raining at the moment--so I think it is a good time for Davy and me to take a walk. After a day inside, this very energetic pup went all... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Something fell on the roof and woke me up...

Probably a minor branch from the maple that overhangs my corner of the house. I think it was Majroj a while back that informed me of the brittleness of the great broadleaf maples that abound in the Northwest, and surround the yard here. Some are old and huge, some merely mature and stately. Particularly in dry seasons, they develop subtle cracks and weaknesses--and we did have a very dry summer! Meanwhile, the wind is illuminated by the flying yellow leaves--some of them pretty impressive, too,... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

The rains are coming...

November is the wettest month of the year around these parts. Last year, it broke records. Certain areas of western Washington are under flood warnings, with high waters possible by tomorrow night. We are not in a flood zone where we live, but along with power-outage supplies, perhaps we should get water-wings for Davy. In fact, there was a winter when there was a lake stretching across three properties at the front of our driveway. We live a ways back from the road, down an easement between... Sign in to see full entry.

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I'm doubtful the events of my life will be of great general interest, but I'd like to share a little more of me to the several of you on Blogit I've come to feel are real friends, and the many I imagine are potentially real friends. We'll see how it works out. ______________________ all my words and images posted on Blogit are copyright 2005-present, all rights reserved.

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