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Hardy har har

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Wonkette on Jenna’s forthcoming wedding:

Will Jenna Bush’s shotgun wedding to dead-eyed former Rove staffer and Bush clan-approved groom Henry “Hank” Hager “the Horrible” take place at the White House? The New York Times pondered this incredibly important question yesterday, pointing out that the last time there was a White House wedding, 36 years ago, the [...]

A surprise from my aunt…the nun

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

One of my aunts celebrated a mid-70s birthday while we were at the beach. I just received a thank-you card (my sister and I picked up a little something for her), and in it, she enclosed the following:

It’s curious that a Google search for much to Zarqawi’s surprise turns up just 10 hits, while my [...]

Day 11

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Hmmm, as it turns out, blogging life at the beach tends to be less exciting as time goes on. There’s just so much of “beach, eat, drink, sleep” you can write about. So here are just a couple of indoor highlights.

Grandma Jane’s son Steven’s family do puzzles. Lots of puzzles. So they brought this 3 [...]

Day 6

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

I thought of Kathleen when taking the shot above. I wouldn’t normally have taken a picture like this (big whoop…a sarong drying in the sun), but I’ve been inspired by some of the shots she’s been taking. Like this one: the subject is a bit ho-hum, but the perspective makes it really interesting.
Anyways, Grandma Jane’s [...]

Day 4

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

It’s day four, and I finally solved the wireless problem. The router was coming up on my laptop, but no DNS. Today I went on a hunt for it, and it turns out that while the router was on, the modem connected to the DSL was not. Oops!
But all better now. No more having [...]