Here’s a couple of pictures from the races. You can see the rest by clicking through to Flickr. I’m exhausted! Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure

My kids have their annual field day today where they run races against each other. Did I mention that they’re the only ones who don’t have official school shirts? Sigh. No one told me. I’m volunteering this afternoon at the duck pond. Yay. I’m actually charging the video camera as we speak. The bad thing…

You scored as Modernist. Modernism represents the thought that science and reason are all we need to carry on. Religion is unnecessary and any sort of spirituality halts progress. You believe everything has a rational explanation. 50% of Americans share your world-view. Existentialist 63% Modernist 63% Postmodernist 63% Idealist 44% Cultural Creative 44% Materialist 31%…

Believe it or not, a meme made me read a book. I hadn’t read F451, though I knew the basic plot, so when the F451 meme went around, I thought I should read the book it was based on. So I did and it was good. (Someone else around here just read it too. I…

I haven’t really written about politics lately. I’ve been pretty bored by it, I must say. It’s not that I don’t care, but it seems like everyone is talking about the same thing, saying the same thing. The issues I really care about I feel powerless to change: peak oil, for example. Since I’m sick…

6:30 a.m.: Wake up with sore throat, ears exploding, nose running6:31 a.m.: Decide not to go to work6:35 a.m.: Tell Mr. Geeky you’re not going to work.6:45 a.m.: Hobble downstairs, make coffee, take various medications6:50 a.m.: Back into bed, with new bed rest with heat and massage action plus cupholder and reading light (Mother’s Day…

I am home sick. I’m not so sick as to need to be in bed all day. I probably could have popped some medicine and made it through the work day. But I always regret it when I do that. I end up sicker and I don’t really accomplish anything at work. So I can…

Since this is the topic of the week, I thought some of you might be interested in a rather extreme version of a blogger’s privacy being violated. If you don’t follow the SCO-IBM trial that’s going on, you probably didn’t hear about this, but Burningbird has a nice summary, including a good quote from the…

For the record–and some background–I now share office space with 3 men (hi, guys!). Not a problem, really. I’m somewhat comfortable being the only woman around. But I’m also a mom and there are different expectations that go with that. We’re sitting around talking about various domestic issues. I’m actually multitasking and reading e-mail and…

I’m having somewhat of a writer’s block, both here and in other writing I’m doing. Unfortunate, since I got linked by IHE. First, I think you should read what Profgrrrrl has to say about this whole linking by them thing. I didn’t know I’d been linked until I read it in the comments there. Obviously,…