Because so much cool stuff is just waiting to distract me from writing!
For years I’ve had my old district take money out of my paycheck, to pay me for the six paychecks I don’t get over the summer. It always works about the same. The first few payback-paychecks are smaller than they should be. If I call and complain, they tell me some mumbo jumbo about how […]
Before the horror fades into fond memories of adventure, let me warn you off going Greyhound if you can possibly avoid it. We were to leave at ten a.m. June 5. The bus we were to get on, however, broke down, and they just canceled that route. We waited until almost two in the afternoon
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So if you’ve been around lately, you may have read that due to a Financial Aid issue, I had to pay for my spring semester myself, and I found this out two days before tuition was due. That wiped me out. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have $500 just lying around. I
Because Dental Care is a Luxury, Some People are Poor, and Toothaches HURT Read More »
So here in Tucson, there’s the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, which has animals in as home-like an environment as they can manage and really they do pretty well. Then there’s the Wildlife Museum and it’s full of taxidermied trophy animals, or so the story goes. They’re both on the same road. I used to get
Not that I’m complaining, really. We need the rain. I love the storms. But… It’s not supposed to be here yet! Generally the monsoon starts around July 4th. I kept that in mind when I planned my one and only week totally off work this summer. My friend and I came up with a list
…when your stats take a nose-dive. It’s a really funny-looking dive, too. The graph looks like this over three days: _|_ Hmm… Well, anyway. I noticed that Goodreads hasn’t been pulling my posts, and I wonder if my feed is somehow messed up and causing the issue. Anyone who actually got here (or did get
Go here to read more about it. I just needed to say it again. South Atlantic Anomaly. 🙂 This belt of antimatter is small, and any threat it poses to those who pass through the anomaly is dwarfed by all the other things that make the region dangerous.
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