http://www.paperpenalia.com/wordpress "Caminante, no hay camino; se hace camino al andar." (Antonio Machado, I think) "You got to ease on down, ease on down the road." ("The Wiz") Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:55:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's a shot of poor Grandma. These are the most classic, textbook example of "coon eyes" I've ever seen (for quick injury classification). The head-bump wasn't nearly as bad as it looks. Gotta admit it does look bad, and with the promise of looking worse and worse over the next ... http://www.paperpenalia.com/wordpress/?p=557 Am finishing up a pint of Deschutes Hop in the Dark, which Deschutes claims is a new beer style they call Cascadian Dark Ale. :shakes head: Naah, they've largely reinvented not-quite-Imperial stouts. Don't bother. Lotta catchin' up to do, even in a life as boring as mine. I hate ... http://www.paperpenalia.com/wordpress/?p=555 I got the first couple of lines and part of the last line, but my math knowledge wasn't good enough to understand the whole thing so I had to get it translated. In other news. . . I got yet another dead mouse today. But it was dead, and not feebly ... http://www.paperpenalia.com/wordpress/?p=554 If throwing fits would make changes, I'd throw one, and then I'd be healthy and it would be rainy and cool again. I've had to cut back to my former exercise schedule—every other day—because of the extremely unhappy post-bumble tendons holding my kneecap to my quadriceps. Or vice ... http://www.paperpenalia.com/wordpress/?p=553 . . . and Little Fishes. http://www.paperpenalia.com/wordpress/?p=552 Actually, I'm assuming—and I will believe—that it's a mouse, not a rat. But it is some sort of rodent. And it has been scrabbling around in my walls for a couple of months or more, utterly oblivious to every remedy I have tried. Naturally, I have deployed anti-rodent dances, banged on ... http://www.paperpenalia.com/wordpress/?p=551 When heat hits here, all my anti-heat defenses percolate to the surface. Since it was 90-something yesterday and almost that today, that means shutting all the windows and doors as early as possible in the a.m. closing off the south-facing bathroom door (this keeps all the radiant heat in the bathroom rather ... http://www.paperpenalia.com/wordpress/?p=550 When I go walking Ye Dogge, I tend to be very careful. The trail we mostly use isn't very difficult except in patches, but it is dirt and rocks, back in the woods, and has inherent potential for disaster. I watch where I'm going and what I step on. When ... http://www.paperpenalia.com/wordpress/?p=549 Yesterday, I started a post that included asking y'all if you or any of your wide network of brilliant, creative, clever friends could recommend a good value for an intermediate-quality alto sax. The ether ate it and sent it off to Betelgeuse or somewhere. I got recommendations from some other friends, ... http://www.paperpenalia.com/wordpress/?p=548 Having determined that my Spanish is yet again getting rusty, I decided to find a new telenovela to watch. Imagine my surprise upon discovering that there is no plain ol' Channel 28 Univision any longer! Instead, there is Channel 29 Univision, which evidently comes straight out of Seattle. It was ... http://www.paperpenalia.com/wordpress/?p=547