• The many uses of dog doo

    And here I thought Mia’s poop was just a pile of useless crap: German police baffeled by Bush poo-flags. There’s a whole album of the flags in situ here. You can even get your own flag and contribute your own pics (but please, please, please – dog doo-doo ONLY). We have a whole bucketful of

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  • Another good reason to stick with Diet Coke

    This just in from the New York Times via Boing Boing: bottled water is, in fact, no better for you than tap water. Hah! This from the person who just bought a 12-pack of Dasani water. But I still like Diet Coke better. Here’s the full article (okay, you may have to register to read

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  • If it were a horse, they’d take it out and shoot it

    /* gripe starts Here’s a fact about me: I hate So Cal traffic. I long for a small town like Cabot Cove, Maine or Cicely, Alaska, where sigalerts never rear their ugly heads, and there’s always parking right in front of all the places you need to go. Alas, I’m stuck in L.A. and work

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  • Fun in the sun

    Last Saturday, my niece Chris and her two kids stopped by for the afternoon. They live in Virginia, so this was a treat. They were out in California visiting Chris’s mom. We had a high time as the weather was outstanding: we went to the beach after first treating the kids to lunch at Ruby’s

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  • The backyard saga drags on

    As promised it’s time for the great backyard update. Here it is: the backyard is still a big pile of dirt. Wait, wait, let me start over. Once upon a time there was a backyard that would not grow grass. But the people who lived there refused to accept this and went to great expense

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  • If it’s Tuesday, it must be time for…

    An entry of odds and ends! Okay, I know I’m long overdue with the home improvement/money pit update, but that will have to wait until I get the pics all together. Suffice it to say that the backyard is now a pile dirt and rubble with a trench running down it (imagine No Man’s Land

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