• Sometimes you just have to ask yourself, “Why did I bother to get up this morning?”

    Well, it’s happened again. The powes that be have reorganized us and I find myself on the move, leaving my pleasant little cubicle for another less pleasant smaller cubicle. In fact it’s like a Frankenstein cublice, cobbled together from bits and pieces of other cubicles. A Charlie Brown cubicle, if you will. My old cubicle

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  • Yep, it’s still 26 miles across the sea

    We spent this past weekend over on Catalina Island (one of our favorite places), enjoying a few days of fun and frivolity with friends. Much rich food and drink was consumed, but Chuck and I stuck to our marathon training program (it’s not that it’s that huge a training program – we’re actually training for

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  • A good day

    –rant on– Good old California! We had a special election yesterday, in which our governor (Ah-nold) attempted to foist an expensive right wing agenda down our throats. I’m happy to report we shoved back, and every one of the propositions on the ballot failed. Consider yourself terminated, Governator. Okay, altogether now: Don’t expect us voters

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  • Our annual dog and pony show

    Once a year, the group I work for when I’m not at my day job participates as an exhibitor at the California Library Association’s annual conference. This year was no different. For the past four days Chuck and I have been slaving away, hostages in an area about the size of our backyard (but without

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  • From the sheesh! department

    Late-breaking news: two nitwitted would-be burglars were arrested in Philadelphia after attempting to hold an iPod for ransom. No, I’m not kidding. This led me to an article about the rise in podjackings. Hold your iPods close, people. Somebody may be out to get them!

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  • Okay, altogether now, “Awwwwww…”

    This just in, the cutest pics I’ve seen in quite a while: Finnegan the Sqirrel.

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