Archive for July, 2004
30 July 2004 | 04:00 PM
Negotiating the Phone-Company Maze
~~~ Day’s Verse: A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. Prov. 15:13 ~~~ Cheerful countenance – well, that comes easier on Fridays than it does most other days of the week! However, my countenance is mixed, for these reasons: Good: – The cat has been [...]
29 July 2004 | 03:57 PM
By the way… YOUR MOMMY KILLS ANIMALS!
Which is more extreme: Peta, or the anti-Peta? If moderation isn’t a virtue, it should be. – KF -
29 July 2004 | 09:20 AM
Like a Freshly-Picked Batch of Roadside Blackberries Bundled in a Black Shirt; or, an Ironic Set of Coincidences that Prove God Has a Sense of Humor
Three conflicting parties, all today, after a long stretch of nothing interesting whatsoever. Six more cat-stranglings. Six more days of question-answering (“So if X + Y = 40, and X = 2Y… how do I solve this again?”) 12 more days until Dad and my four-day trek. 18 more days of Washington gorgeousness. Funny how, [...]
28 July 2004 | 09:24 AM
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Rather sick. Blah. Thankfully 5/6 of my students are taking a test, sothat’s a lot less work than teaching them all… – KF -
27 July 2004 | 08:49 AM
In class. The kids are crazy. Am posting via email for not apparentreason. I now go to settle people down and explain the differencebetween multiplying and subtracting polynomials. – KF -
25 July 2004 | 11:27 AM
Testing Blogging Via Email
Ian took one look at today’s “Sherman Lagoon” and mumbled that he totally understood what it was saying. In the strip, the wife says, “Sherman, I don’t feel like eating in tonight. Let’s go to a restaurant.” Sherman: “Okay.” Wife: “Let’s have sushi.” Sherman: “Works for me.” Wife: “Not just any sushi. Unagi, sake, and [...]
23 July 2004 | 02:17 PM
Tails of Woe
I would like to raise a question about the responsibilities of a house sitter. Along these lines, I have compiled a list of activities a person caring for somebody’s house might expect to shoulder, as well as my analysis of the request’s reasonableness. Watering plants: naturally a reasonable request. Checking the mail and taking in [...]
