tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30001042012-01-26T21:39:10.423-05:00C'est La VieWhat a beautiful piece of heartache this has all turned out to be. Lord knows we've learned the hard way all about healthy apathy. And I use these words pretty loosely. There's so much more to life than words..<br>
I really think I'll be ok. They've taken their toll these latter days. <br>
<small>-- <a href="http://www.overtherhine.com">Over the Rhine</a>, Latter Days</small>Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.comBlogger8011100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-62785239942879874342009-07-13T19:57:00.002-04:002009-07-13T20:04:18.561-04:00A few months ago, I posted about Eric Peters and his request for patrons to help fund his new album.That album is being released in just over a month, a good bit earlier than I think he was initially seeing as likely. The progress he's outlined on his blog sounds fantastic, and I'm very much looking forward to hearing it! Eric has some of the songs that have, in the best possible way, gotten Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-5391277617869299062009-07-03T01:36:00.000-04:002009-07-03T01:37:42.736-04:00I'm on my way home!!Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-89477189277854803562009-05-16T05:22:00.002-04:002009-05-16T05:27:27.320-04:00My internet has been acting funny today (as is usually the case here) and I just lost the post i typed up because i forgot to copy it beforehand and forgot about blogger's autosave feature before ruining it with this fake update.*sigh*well, i don't have it in me to start over. Much of it was rambling anyway .... which is probably what you've come to expect from me, but i'm trying to get better Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-66304134585316992412009-03-11T00:08:00.003-04:002009-03-11T00:23:07.291-04:00 http://www.compassion.com/global-food-crisis/I have been sponsoring a child in Uganda through Compassion for several years now. The chance to watch her grow up from 8 years old to 16 has been incredible, and it's so wonderful each time I get a letter (and I get a few each year!) to hear about how her family is doing and how well she's doing in school.Compasion has put together Global Food Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-25432467460490965312009-03-01T22:22:00.002-05:002009-03-01T22:25:08.897-05:00(I've been meaning to mention that for roughly the past month I've been maintaining just over my high school weight, which is much less scary than being several pounds less than that. I went out this past weekend and bought some clothes that actually fit me, so that will be a good way to see if my size is doing well or I'm still out of control... the last few times I've bought jeans here that fitPattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-68244071861657980062009-02-14T06:51:00.002-05:002009-02-14T06:55:56.310-05:00Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-58552449456183803202009-01-25T23:07:00.003-05:002009-01-25T23:32:35.744-05:00Quick update about the animal adventures. There is a small zoo-like-area here, and I went there with a new friend the first week of the New Year. It was really great to get out and see all of these animals. I figured out that I need to go earlier so that I can spend a full day there and really explore the zoo, but this was a good introductory trip.There was a tour group going around seeing the Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-28597116692657801692009-01-24T14:55:00.003-05:002009-01-24T15:24:11.949-05:00Ok, I wasn't really waiting for Kaly to post again before I post. I don't know why I haven't posted in so long... I had been in a funk for a while, but I really made some strides in coming out of it about two weeks ago, only to get sucked into work hours that made my pre-holiday hours look scant.In my (apparently futile) attempt to unwind after long workdays and on what time of weekends I do Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-13973394976164801282009-01-06T11:40:00.000-05:002009-01-06T11:42:59.236-05:00Within hours of that last msg, my internet went down. So I can jump on a really, really, really slow connection every now and then to check for urgent messages and such, but that's it. Grr.So, hopefully it comes back up and I can post some of the photos I wanted to soon....Until then: I hope your New Year is going great already!!Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-43735444836640547042008-12-31T18:26:00.002-05:002008-12-31T18:38:56.105-05:00Happy New Year, everyone!I don't actually have enough room on my hard drive yet to do much with pictures, so the photo updates will have to wait further into this new year.... soon, I hope.I have just gotten in from the New Year's celebration I went to. It's not the New Year yet for my hometown and anywhere else I've ever lived, but it's getting closer. By the time I wake up today/tomorrow it Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-4094316554785788732008-12-29T23:08:00.002-05:002008-12-29T23:13:41.641-05:00Yes, it's been more than a month. I didn't want to finish out the year with no posts in so long, and there's been so much I wanted to put up here (this morning's will be a photoless blog but hopefully soon i'll have time to crop a few down) but when I've actually tried, my internet connection was down (it relies on not having people in the building using up all the bandwidth downloading movies Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-68329120274972108642008-11-26T15:44:00.003-05:002008-11-26T16:31:42.950-05:00This has been a fantastic evening. After several weeks of REALLY long work-days (mostly ten or more hours) and working on many weekends, and this week in particular we had four days (since our Monday is on Sunday, so we only have tomorrow off and Friday is our normal weekend) and all of them were 11 to 14 hours at work... and we just have the three day weekend because we'll be working again on Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-7591874053709268842008-11-23T14:24:00.002-05:002008-11-23T14:30:47.124-05:00Ladies and Gentlemen, I am proud to announce that Mousey Brown has now happily and safely relocated to a more appropriate environment. I tried to catch a picture as I let the mouse out of the bag, but she jumped too high and then ran too fast and all I caught were the rocks in the area into which I released her, FAR away from my building!Shelley is still keeping me company here, of course. And I Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-75488907654238936892008-11-21T14:55:00.005-05:002008-11-21T15:51:32.074-05:00Within the last week, I have said goodbye to both of the two guys from my Navy Ball pictures. These are two of the people with whom I've been spending most of my time out of my apartment (whenever I wasn't working or sleeping, which was only so often) over the last four months. The other two such people (but for the majority of my time here, not just the last four months) both left in September. Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-63142742236063731482008-11-15T06:24:00.003-05:002008-11-15T07:03:52.056-05:00Finally, some pictures from when I went to see the boat up close:Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-90490606390016120602008-11-12T12:19:00.002-05:002008-11-12T12:50:53.703-05:00Mother Nature apparently heard of my appreciation for Shelley keeping me company, and was kind enough to send another new friend. Mousey Brown is a field mouse I saw running across my floor yesterday. I jumped a bit, of course, not like the way people jump on a table and scream, but just a sudden action because of surprise. This scared Mousey Brown under the fridge, where I hoped very strongly Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-57714463855791318502008-11-10T15:46:00.002-05:002008-11-10T16:07:14.992-05:00Ah, I realized tonight that I had not updated my post about saying "I'm full" for a girl in France or in French company. It's not due to the un-lady-likeness of the statement. Well, not directly, anyway. Trust me, ladies, just don't say it. I finally got a direct answer about why exactly it's so taboo or shocking. Just don't say it.This weekend was interesting. I had some pretty significant Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-68147346630051948232008-11-08T03:30:00.002-05:002008-11-08T05:16:16.737-05:00Yesterday, Katy posted about her voting decision, including this:I didn’t vote for him because I’ve grown ever more fond of principles than I will ever again be fond of personalities.To the whole post, Amen, Katy.I felt through this whole election, before and after, that there was in some circles a rather overemphasis on the race issue despite the press about how much the Obama campaign tried to Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-66035613195296661452008-11-06T22:32:00.002-05:002008-11-06T22:40:53.887-05:00While trying to glance at the cricket and see if it would be possible to entice her out from under the fridge and into a cup for outside releasing, I accidentally scared her into moving about a foot away from where she had been hanging out. This was a few days ago. She had been about a few inches from the front, right next to a wood-support, in the midst of many of the metal and coil components, Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-27485440510838360122008-11-04T14:37:00.002-05:002008-11-04T14:49:03.627-05:00What a day.After being thoroughly exhausted by work this week (by yesterday it felt like Wednesday, and today was long as well, but now it's exciting to think that we're half-done and tomorrow really is Wednesday and then just Thursday before our weekend!!) .. and by the cold that is kicking my tail as we speak.... I came home to find an e-mail from one of my mailing list subscriptions in my Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-18834546247469183352008-10-31T19:03:00.005-04:002008-11-23T14:23:47.379-05:00 Happy Halloween!!And: See, I really am trying to gain the weight back....This, ladies and gentlemen, is (purported to be) a camel burger! Used to be that when you ate one of these puppies and its side items, you'd get a tee-shirt that said something about how, believe it or not, the wearer had eaten a camel burger at such-and-such hotel/restaurant. Eight of us went tonight, and I think we all Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-15978457470332759252008-10-26T12:08:00.002-04:002008-10-26T12:21:07.372-04:00I now weigh less than I did in high school.And I was not very large in high school.I think I need to find a new stres coping mechanism... I still eat ice cream a lot, but obviously that's just not doing it for me anymore. Perhaps I should eat only pasta??Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-26612011394302009212008-10-22T13:12:00.002-04:002008-10-22T13:18:37.720-04:00I remember now. It was Popcorn. I remember, of course, the old tall, yellow popcorn-poppers of the eighties and seventies... and the little foil-wrapped stovepacks, and I know families who pop popcorn in large pots on the stove... But for much of my life, microwave popcorn has been standard, and the saltier and more buttery, the better, in my humble opinion. I love getting the remnants of salt Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-85461047712945332622008-10-21T15:11:00.003-04:002008-10-21T15:42:11.917-04:00More fun experiences in English attempts and different cultures:Many places here use fun text, such as "on Sunday the 21th" routinely. I love saying them how they spell them. Twenty-firth. It's just so great!When my international friends and I went out for some Indian food the other night (which was absolutely delicious!!!!), we had large plates full of yummy nummies... so afterwards, one of the Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-72548338201753802372008-10-18T08:13:00.002-04:002008-10-18T08:18:32.466-04:00ok, I just can't for the life of me get the pictures to line up the way I want them to, so please bear with me since they're all strewn about the page in happenstance style. Should've just centered thm and commented below like normal.So, now it's time for me to leave for my Arabic final this evening, and then it's Oktoberfest on base. Maybe I'll grab some more giant mugs for my collection.Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-55252562039187362642008-10-18T07:19:00.008-04:002008-10-18T07:55:03.755-04:00These pictures are from that evening when I mentioned staying for dinner. They're also to show you another aspect of the quasi-European diet and why it's so effective at weight loss. Eating dinner with my international friends that evening, the French were kind enough to share with me the Saucisson they had received in the mail that week. Yes, in the mail. Not, from what I could understand of thePattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-91022034380458607262008-10-18T07:06:00.011-04:002008-10-18T08:13:10.832-04:00Ok, first my Navy Ball pictures.It started out with getting my hair done, and then getting ready for the evening, my two bodyguards arrived to pick me up:And we enjoyed the ball, complete with new friends at the table (one of whom is here, but there were six others) and a whole new appreciation for American ceremonies on behalf of my foreign companions. They don't have a Prisoner of War ceremony/Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-50815629900935632912008-10-12T16:18:00.002-04:002008-10-12T16:37:31.895-04:00Got caught up in napping after lunch, and then stayed for dinner, and now it's way later than I should be going to bed since I have to teach early tomorrow. So instead, tomorrow evening I will post the pictures and some other stuff. Kaly and Paul, the Filipino restaurant I went to today kind-of reminded me of the sign from your trip... nothing that drastically odd, but still some things that justPattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-2780158879598250032008-10-12T05:38:00.002-04:002008-10-12T05:48:55.302-04:00Ok, putting off posting the pictures till later today, because now it's time for lunch. Before I post them, I should use this disclaimer: I've lost weight again over the last few months because of both my work schedule and also because I've unintentionally gone on the American-in-quasi-Europe diet... which is that as an American (and specifically one who gets up way too early), I expect to eat Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-51305173493075237302008-10-11T16:23:00.002-04:002008-10-11T16:31:17.455-04:00There is a movie on right now (on the +1 channel, but I just finished watching it on the regular channel and now the +1 version --- which means the same programming delayed by one hour --- is on for background noise) called Broken English, which is about a New York girl who randomly meets a French guy one evening and about their relationship, but also about her best friend and about her own Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-72583431705539574492008-09-30T12:38:00.002-04:002008-09-30T12:40:19.021-04:00Oh my dear goodness. You would think that a solid work ethic would be the norm and that overworking and slacking off would fan out to the extremes, but I'm not so sure anymore... I think there are fewer and fewer who fall within the middle-ground anymore.But when you work in pay, and you fail to do your job, you make a lot of people very unhappy. So don't be a slacker.Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-24033448248851822632008-09-27T07:06:00.002-04:002008-09-27T07:10:55.743-04:00No, I didn't make a vow to not post during Ramadan or something.... I just haven't had anything to say here. My Arabic class has been going well, and my work has been stressful but the the countdown steadily plodding along, and the closest friend I had here has transferred but that's what makes all the new people coming in so great, and ..... Well, anyway, I did try to post last night or this Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-62402969131407669322008-09-27T02:34:00.008-04:002008-09-27T18:06:48.427-04:00We had a special guest concert here last week, and I took the opportunity to practice my concert photography and test out my new camera. Once I get the lens designed for it, I think I'll have even better shots, but for now I'm using my film-camera lens and that's working just fine. That's a big part of why I stuck with Nikon for my foray into digital.My favorite part of the shots I did get were Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-67661275358107441192008-08-30T07:48:00.002-04:002008-08-30T08:35:59.964-04:00Things that I have learned recently by hanging out with non-Americans:It's really fun watching non-English speakers improve in their skills over fairly short periods of time. After just one month of living in a non-English-speaking country where English is yet spoken widely and the one main cross-national language here, a person who has minimal English skills can really come to be quite Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-59881303055196083652008-08-09T23:12:00.002-04:002008-08-09T23:18:02.958-04:00Went on a nice, long outing with a friend yesterday, which was so very nice. We went to the market, and then to one of the malls that most of the Westerners don't frequent. It doesn't have a lot of regular stores, and what it does have are vastly overpriced, but it does have a great "hypermarket" (supermarket) and a REALLY nice movie theater, which I went to for the first time yesterday.We saw Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-37392275002883873252008-08-08T13:47:00.003-04:002008-08-08T14:33:14.904-04:00I have gotten out and had some fun with my new camera... both my D80 (I am SO in love!!) and my couple-months-old Canon Powershot A720, which is also a pretty nice little piece of equipment.So, here are some of the pictures I've taken from my roof over the last few nights: That would be the Grand Mosque towards the left, the same one from the pictures inside from when I first got here. Life in Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-87891060183498316942008-07-30T12:52:00.003-04:002008-07-30T14:01:04.473-04:00My new camera is in!!!I am SO in love! I haven't even really started having fun the way I will, because I got it three days ago (I think) and it's been so busy... but this weekend, for sure. And speaking of IN LOVE, I am so in love with B and H Photo Video. SO in love! I've got a little wishlist going over there so that I can keep track of all the fun goodies I find on the site... I got the NikonPattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-58132255749329925702008-07-22T00:05:00.000-04:002008-07-22T00:06:39.488-04:00this might be one of the most awesome things I have EVER seen.... parents, please watch your kidsPattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-77430599473666871792008-07-11T04:06:00.002-04:002008-07-11T04:16:42.739-04:00I think my A/C really is fixed now. It's been ok for a few days straight, so maybe that drama is all over. It's nice to be at home again rather than crashing with friends, and knowing that all my chocolate isn't getting melty and photos aren't warping anymore.I had some really crazy dreams last night (one in which I got fired (which means transferred to a bad job for us) at least three times and Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-30817081305331850772008-07-01T13:19:00.002-04:002008-07-01T13:27:31.716-04:00Perhaps, even though the methods of internal help I tried to reach out for at work turned me down entirely, perhaps it was reaching out for those methods that got those causing the problems to start looking for new ways to solve the problems they've had with me and perhaps that will help lead to solutions.Regardless, I've employed a new motto... "Things Will Get Better Anyway."Not just Things Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-78729766390784209482008-06-30T11:29:00.001-04:002008-06-30T11:29:44.662-04:00This too shall pass... This too shall pass... This too shall pass...Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-21584455814222912982008-06-26T11:01:00.002-04:002008-06-26T11:11:46.075-04:00What does it take to be a likeable person?And why doesn't this spellcheck recognize likeable when it's such an improved variation of the very odd-looking likable?Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-22464888436114546052008-06-19T16:34:00.002-04:002008-06-19T16:49:03.718-04:00Ok, so things were busy and a bit rough before I went on leave. And then I had this really great trip, and I felt SO refreshed, and I did a lot to try to relax as well as spend time with loved ones and accomplish the main points of the trip...... but the relaxing was more of a priority this time than it has been on some past trips (when hanging out with friends at any cost was a priority, throughPattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-18609515877320419672008-06-09T14:36:00.002-04:002008-06-09T14:37:59.114-04:00Tonight it was "Chalk", which was a random indie film I had picked up on my trip to VA in October but hadn't gotten around to watching yet. I'm glad I finally did!Recommended for teachers, especially at the middle, high school, and even junior college levels. Recommended for anyone who has ever been in any of these years of education.Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-13406135241908814442008-06-08T23:22:00.002-04:002008-06-08T23:26:21.352-04:00Watched a move last night called The Half Life of Timofey Berezin. It was quite an interesting movie... some elements of Snatch, some style from Reservoir Dogs (and language was similar enough), and all with a Russian Accent.I'd recommend it for the movie enjoyer. I'd recommend it as a good way to hear many styles of Russian Accented English. I'd recommend it as a social commentary that doesn't Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-77230675645400396842008-06-08T13:16:00.002-04:002008-06-08T13:21:16.861-04:00Canada is looking good again, and 14 months seems far too long.... I just really look forward to leaving all of this behind and finding something better to do with my time.I mean, if I was doing something important, maybe it would feel more worth it...Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-37607520820460745392008-06-07T23:35:00.001-04:002008-06-07T23:37:14.702-04:00Steve, I randomly came across this blog today (not entirely randomly ... One of my old jr. highers has this quote on his AIM away msg and I was wondering whether he'd come up with it himself or not, and did a google for part of the phrase) and it reminded me of some of the discussions on your blog. I think we can all relate. I know it's what my work has been like an awful lot lately.Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-50239057919191730772008-05-21T23:43:00.003-04:002008-05-21T23:52:22.367-04:00It has been either really hot or a sandstorm since I got back. The nice thing about the sandstorms is they provide a nice layer that blocks out or reflects some of the heat, so that it cools things off... obviously, there are not so nice aspects as well.The news this morning said temps would range from 86 to 99 F today, so I figure while I'm outside in regular clothes that it'll be closer to 90 Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-5309178194697046792008-05-13T13:54:00.002-04:002008-05-13T15:14:42.781-04:00I was walking around the base the other day, and went by an idling car, and finally figured out how to explain what the heat is like here.You know when you're standing near the exhaust pipe of a car that's been running for a while, and the exhaust coming out is really hot, and somewhat stale despite the circulation, and pretty humid....So now pretend the exhaust pipe is the atmosphere. And Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-40637794134747512372008-05-09T15:54:00.002-04:002008-05-09T16:07:35.373-04:00Here it is, me in my cap and gown, with the almost-diploma letter I received during the ceremony. The stole is for graduating with High Honors, which should help me get into a good school as I move forward with my education.Finally, I can say I'm a college graduate. Maybe a community college, but that's all I need to start out with.It was a gorgeous day for the ceremony, and really, the weather Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-46562830970568007322008-05-06T15:27:00.002-04:002008-05-06T15:29:17.718-04:00Back safe, will post pictures tomorrow (if the jet lag doesn't hit me too hard then).Thanks everyone for keeping me in your thoughts and prayers. Great trip overall, and pleasantly uneventful return travel.'Nite!Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-50129785480894579582008-04-25T23:36:00.002-04:002008-04-25T23:43:23.962-04:00In the hotel with my Mom and Uncle now, and the rest of the family arrives tomorrow. There will be a little photo-and-story sharing time later tomorrow, and the full day of activities on Sunday. I've already seen one of my favorite relations-by-marraige on this side of the extended family, my long-ago imported British great-Aunt. She was always the "crazy" one, the fun-loving one, who many of ourPattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-16903040957321293712008-04-22T23:27:00.003-04:002008-04-22T23:38:34.468-04:00This trip has been really incredible so far. Very productive, very relaxing these last two days especially, and still with much to look forward to.In particular, today I went out on a kayak (I'm staying with some friends who live right on the river) and had some alone time with nature (not even realizing it was Earth Day until later on)... saw SO many birds, including a brightly colored Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-79775283007916240712008-04-17T10:36:00.002-04:002008-04-17T10:41:48.657-04:00I'm in Florida now, getting ready to go handle my Gramps' estate and then walk in my graduation ceremony, so it's a pretty eventful trip I've got planned. But it's been nice already, and just amazing seeing grass again! And breathing air that has pollen instead of dust... guess I can't get away from the filtration necessity, but I think even the pollen count has got to be a lot lower than all thePattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-33429806419920302542008-04-14T23:09:00.001-04:002008-04-14T23:12:05.799-04:00Caught the Corner Gas eposide about blogs (Hank Talkin and the Hank Talkin Cheat Sheet plus additional commentary). Now that was some funny stuff! I've really fallen for Corner Gas anyway, but since last night's related to this particular area of my life so much, it was even more amusing.Maybe I should change the name of this to Patalkin....Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-72840714265119432582008-04-02T23:58:00.001-04:002008-04-02T23:59:28.734-04:00A new way for me to get my cute-kid-fix while over here, plus the song is a great reminder. You gotta hang in there through the first verse and chorus for the kids talking... SO adorable!Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-23113948893892281182008-03-29T11:47:00.002-04:002008-03-29T12:02:13.641-04:00Steve (and everyone), now that my last Associate’s college class is over (yay!!!) I have a moment to post some excerpts from my speech at the Ball. It was a fifteen minute speech, which was three pages long with one-inch margins in Times New Roman size 12, and I won’t repost all of that. It was a women’s history month theme, so I talked about my Grandmother, my niece, and some others. It was alsoPattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-34437438351709157282008-03-16T23:44:00.002-04:002008-03-16T23:49:59.433-04:00Happy My Day, Everyone!!Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-34893624405769834272008-03-16T15:07:00.003-04:002008-03-16T15:23:02.756-04:00I got my newest eval back today. It's got a low point-average, but that's because the signing authority on it has a MUCH lower historical average. It was a pretty positive briefing, though if I were going to stay in I may have seen some parts differently. But overall, it was a decent eval, and since it doesn't actually impact my career any longer anyway, and will have no impact at all on my Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-61052498534255783932008-03-16T14:36:00.002-04:002008-03-16T15:06:29.740-04:00(Rant Alert) What I hate is when people who are doggone tired of this world decide that they're gonna up and take folks out with them when they go. Or anyone else who uses violence against others as a way of making a statement.What I hate is when this is considered to be justified somehow.What I hate is ignorance, hard-earned bliss in this area.What I hate is people who are so busy trying to makePattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-74407470197398413262008-02-16T00:28:00.002-05:002008-02-16T00:53:56.548-05:00So it seems that, for now at least, the worst of the internet disruptions should be over after that viscious "shark attack" (as we heard it was initially reported) or whatever it was that started making it so iffy. But then, it's always iffy here... meanwhile, I've apparently been leaving a ghost behind on AIM when I've gotten disconnected, which is frequent.My class this semester is going to be Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-33123004972244062512008-01-30T13:36:00.000-05:002008-01-30T14:03:21.411-05:00Beth and Josh and Ava, I love the nail stickers. I was tempted to put one on at work today, but since I've had my favorite Chief (no, really, I'm not being sarcastic, she's my absolute favorite Chief) coming by my desk or looking at my nails while we're in the locker room in the morning this whole week counting the layers of nail polish I have on over the previous chipped layers, there's been a Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-33760513336102713992008-01-20T02:31:00.000-05:002008-01-20T02:58:42.899-05:00I went to sign in to blogger today, and my sign-in page was in Arabic! So when I got through (since my account is, of course, set to English), Blogger staff had announced that they had just launched the Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian language support.Having been here for a while now, it's funny to me that the release was on the same day. Plenty logical for them, of course, but funny to me. But maybePattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-20077681890082387082008-01-14T11:54:00.000-05:002008-01-14T11:56:45.645-05:00Finally, I got some pictures from some of the folks from the New Year's party. This is how one might have turned out were there a sketch artist there who decided to do a portrait.... Consider this a reminder on sticking to your resolutions, should you have any (unlike me), and on continuing to have a happy new year!Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-43648027503599869162008-01-08T13:36:00.000-05:002008-01-08T13:43:48.827-05:00See, Ron Paul, the thing is that most of the people who blew up our country weren't people who were offended by us being in their countries... we weren't IN their countries. Or if we ever had been, it wasn't at the time.And also, see, the thing is, that just because some extremists want to blow us up, that doesn't mean the majority, the innocent, the members of society about whom we should be Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-25852705944286052302008-01-06T11:24:00.000-05:002008-01-06T11:35:25.773-05:00The internet has been down here for a couple of days. Just tried again and got connected, but I don't think it'll last much.It all started two evenings ago, when it *gasp* RAINED here! With thunder and lightening and everything! I hear it does that a bit in January most years, but it was still a strange feeling. And then a strange feeling that rain is a strange feeling.This place really does go Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-15603767151944416592008-01-03T12:19:00.000-05:002008-01-03T12:27:04.000-05:00I have gotten B&B's letter and package, P&K's letter, M&D's card, Uncle Bob's card, and now J&B's card AND the package! So the mail system DOES work, if a lot slower than some others. And of course, there have been e-mails and posts and lots of other holiday updates. What beautiful pictures, what wonderful surprises, what nicely written letters! I plan to do a birthday letter again, but of coursePattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-61013068776301829642008-01-01T13:50:00.000-05:002008-01-01T14:13:25.248-05:00I have just been notified that after years of failing health and several months on Hospice care, my Grandfather passed on the last day of 2007. It is good for him not to be ill any longer, though I've wished for a long time that he wasn't so hostile towards anything to do with Christianity or even God Himself. I'm not sure if he was softening up towards the end there, but I know he would often Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-77665538174720592852008-01-01T04:09:00.000-05:002008-01-01T06:39:28.038-05:00My first online New Year was I think 93 to 94 or maybe 94 to 95, when we had Compuserv and had heard about a free chat forum called TownHall and my brothers, father, and myself all spent time there in various capacities. (Come to think of it, I'm not quite certain my brothers did spend too much time there, but maybe they did..) My father mostly hung under the radar there and made friends somehow Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-88778347957554835512007-12-31T18:18:00.000-05:002007-12-31T18:31:01.703-05:00New Year's was great. Happy New Year's, boys and girls!!I went with some friends to a house party and we forty-some-odd (some people left, whether for other parties or for their own homes I don't know, much before midnight, and some who had planned to be there didn't end up showing) really had a wonderful time ending 2007 and ringing in 2008. Can you BELIEVE it's already 2008?!?!?! Well, here it Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-57245405860513063862007-12-27T14:45:00.000-05:002007-12-27T14:55:30.178-05:00There is one thing to outsourcing and foreign help that cannot be disputed: politeness.In dealing with Amazon recently regarding my older brother's Christmas present, which got lost in the mail (but which they replaced immediately, free of charge, express shipping), I got two e-mails that were distinctly written by non-Americans... you could tell from the grammar, but you could also tell from thePattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-21429803667170300742007-12-25T02:53:00.000-05:002007-12-25T02:58:30.245-05:00Merry Christmas, boys and girls!Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-58422100469460876382007-12-24T11:19:00.000-05:002007-12-24T11:52:17.511-05:00The Christmas Eve service on base was really quite interesting and amusing more than anything else. From slide-lyrics broken up in strange places to re-reading of Biblical passages (as if the first reader didn't get it right!), with at least three times during singing that the pianist, the slide-changer, or the Pastor brought the singing to a standstill except for us brave and rebellious souls Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-74612639085053942022007-12-23T05:27:00.001-05:002007-12-23T05:42:05.008-05:00Gosh, my AIM list is nearly empty right now, like people can't be on in the days leading up to Christmas.....Of course, most Stateside folks are asleep right now anyway, but I still usually have at least a dozen people on, and right now it's half that and has been shrinking every hour or so. Fox only has the three most recent episodes of House (read: before the writer's strike postponed the otherPattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-28087342464933384352007-12-18T13:14:00.000-05:002007-12-18T14:48:27.159-05:00Also, I worked nearly 14 hours today and have to be in again in under 10 hours. Although I worked over 14 hours sometimes in Jax, I hadn't yet worked this long here, so it's a new record for me... I had some good company in my customers at the end there, and got to hear some really nice British accents as I was leaving, but it was a long, long day. And tomorrow will be long, too, but I really Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-20555797003549069602007-12-18T13:10:00.001-05:002007-12-18T13:13:38.946-05:00*sigh* ... it is as I hoped it would not be... I did not pass my US History I CLEP. Although I did amazingly better on the other CLEPs, even the subjects I didn't think I'd do so well in, this one did not carry the same fortune with it.There is an 8 week Euro History course online in February and March, and I will take that if I can't get to a computerized CLEP station (seriously, WHY don't we Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-87054551591252739542007-12-17T14:11:00.000-05:002007-12-17T14:16:46.181-05:00ARRGH! I'm going crazy waiting for my CLEP results!! They should've been up last Wednesday, and I waited until tonight to give a little more time with mail slowdown and stuff, but they're still not up... so I called around a bunch of places and finally got confirmation that the exam was received but that I need to talk to the office here to find out why it's not posted... and that CANNOT be good.Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-56871624060691328192007-12-17T12:01:00.001-05:002007-12-17T12:03:04.542-05:00Chick: Well, that's the best idea you've ever had!Dude: Really, you like it?Chick: No. But it's the best idea you've ever had.--- Corner Gas.They say "against" and "sorry" funny...Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-69287670734089154032007-12-14T05:34:00.000-05:002007-12-14T05:49:02.792-05:00We have cleaning contracts here since it's a shore command, and most of the cleaners are Indians (and they get paid a lot more by us than they would in many other places, and plenty enough to send lots back home to family, despite the fact that it's a lot less than many Americans make and have a hard time making their own ends meet sometimes) ... So I was on Cleaner Watch this week, which means Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-34195988477602384002007-12-12T14:21:00.001-05:002007-12-12T14:29:24.123-05:00I cannot emphasize enough how much I love the Behold the Lamb of God album from Andrew Peterson and friends. And how grateful I am that they released it on DVD, which means that even though I cannot go see the tour this year (and had not seen it in a few years until last year in Jax), I can still watch it here in the Middle East with a nice glass of eggnog, all wrapped up in a blanket. (Me, not Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-50010388334642602402007-12-10T12:11:00.000-05:002007-12-10T12:17:14.599-05:00Ok, riddle me this, Batman:Piquetr.v. piqued, piqu·ing, piques1. To cause to feel resentment or indignation.2. To provoke; arouse: The portrait piqued her curiosity.3. To pride (oneself): He piqued himself on his stylish attire. No, that's not a multiple choice question... that's the real definition, from the American Heritage Dictionary."pique." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the EnglishPattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-40659963230066166652007-12-09T23:25:00.000-05:002007-12-09T23:26:08.616-05:00http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_coinPattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-35224959318535092922007-12-08T16:07:00.000-05:002007-12-08T16:18:55.952-05:00Ok, so I can't always talk about what's going on in my life, for various and sundry reasons, especially as things themselves are actually happening or in progress. It's the same reason why I don't use my last name or specific location on here.So when I posted that pricetag post, it had a lot to do with that. Plus with the whole thing of not wanting to continually post the same-old-same-old about Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-15263869954741042922007-12-06T10:41:00.000-05:002007-12-06T10:44:38.484-05:00You seriously cannot (CAN NOT) put a pricetag on this kinda fun....Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-41880544790125507402007-12-04T23:08:00.000-05:002007-12-04T23:18:06.731-05:00Santa came to visit us... I guess he was a little sick of the snot-nosed brats at the malls, so he came to see the snot-nosed brats in the Arabian Gulf.Remembering that it gets dark here by about 1630, it wasn't actually as late as it looks to be when I saw Santa. He didn't seem to be enjoying the tempuratures, but I imagine he often gets a little warm in that suit.. you'd think it'd help him Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-90278003041538629882007-12-04T12:17:00.000-05:002007-12-04T12:32:43.400-05:00I did not even know what busy was before these past two weeks. Not longer hours than usual type busy, just fuller hours. It has been a full, but very productive and satisfying week already... to the point where I feel like tomorrow should be the weekend. But no, today was our Wednesday-equivalent or "hump day" for some corporate environments. Except I'm working on Friday for at least a while, Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-67189483287439785632007-11-30T03:15:00.000-05:002007-11-30T04:10:55.263-05:00Shadows are falling and I've been here all dayIt's too hot to sleep time is running awayFeel like my soul has turned into steelI've still got the scars that the sun didn't healThere's not even room enough to be anywhereIt's not dark yet, but it's getting thereWell my sense of humanity has gone down the drainBehind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of painShe wrote me a letter and she Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-33413738066591467582007-11-29T13:27:00.001-05:002007-11-29T13:35:56.083-05:00More (of the same) Australians last night. Crazier than ever. Fun hearing words like Bloke and Mate constantly. They were enjoying *my* accent.Apparently, rap has accepted the 80's and country-world love of line dancing. A couple of songs came on last night for which a ton-load of kids (Americans .. the Aussies were somewhere between intrigue and mockery) got up and started doing line dances. Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-73468211041047190342007-11-27T15:11:00.000-05:002007-11-27T15:18:08.780-05:00Tonight was hanging out with a few Australian Sailors.... and let me tell you, they are CRAZY!!! I mean, they make us look tame.. but at the same time, I understand even better why the negative stereotypes of ours can be more negative. One of the guys, the one I was talking with the most (who was barely twenty-two.. oy!), kept asking if all Americans think we're tough. I just showed him my Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-16050359820470671952007-11-26T14:12:00.000-05:002007-11-26T14:23:18.912-05:00I think I have gotten a thicker Southern accent since I got here. Maybe to combat the nasal-Texan accent almost all foreigners seem to associate with any American they meet. They all get that scrunched up face and say some horrible thing, usually along the lines of "--N howw aRre YUUU du'in' TWO-day?" and get proud of themselves for imitating Americans so well. The Brits I was with last weekend Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-14390103204177974522007-11-23T14:37:00.000-05:002007-11-23T14:42:59.269-05:00Yes, we did have Black Friday here, and I did get up much earlier than I should've on a weekend to go in and get some of the great deals they had on a few items... but they sold out of the Cybershot way before I had a chance, and everything else I wanted wasn't really stuff I had to go in early to get. But there it was, I was there. I did get some really nice stuff, a few great DVDs for four Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-48127675675429480722007-11-22T18:54:00.001-05:002007-11-22T19:07:02.009-05:00My first Thanksgiving overseas, and it was very, very nice. I went to one Turkey party last night with one of the other commands, and was so welcomed, and the food was delicious! What's most amazing about that is that it was a lot of younger kids preparing the food throughout the day (a "day off" of sorts) and it really turned out better than many private caterers would've been. Not cooks, eitherPattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-69611911782858617462007-11-22T03:45:00.000-05:002007-11-22T03:49:17.950-05:00Happy Thanksgiving, all!!!I have a little video greeting which I sent out this morning, and I think I got the majority of you ... but if you didn't get it, please let me know and I can send it. I can't post it here, or send it to strangers or anything, but let me know if you'd like it and we'll see. ;)I've gotta go make my Sweet Potato Cassarole for my department's dinner now, and I'm really Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-41898254046496244222007-11-19T13:35:00.000-05:002007-11-19T14:18:46.879-05:00Life imitates (and/or responds to) my blog, it seems.Today, we were signing a birthday card for a Chief in my department, and do you know what it was? Hillary Clinton on the cover sitting at a desk with a sign that said "President Hillary Clinton" and inside it said "See? Some things are scarier than turning another year older!"Also, after my blue skies post, I was talking to my mother who was Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-79827571713582870942007-11-17T14:30:00.000-05:002007-11-17T14:37:09.836-05:00I'm not hugely researching the candidates just yet, since I won't be voting in the primaries, so I'll do more research later on when I know who I actually will be choosing between ... but I have been particularly interested in some of the comments and/or supporters which have come up recently. Barak was interesting on Leno, and Ron Paul has been one of the most frequently supported candidates in Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-39065192772386496832007-11-16T02:29:00.000-05:002007-11-16T02:52:14.458-05:00We had Sunday off as our Veteran's Day (since Friday and Saturday are our weekend), so this was a short work week day-wise. However, I think it's been the longest week I've had here so far. Certainly it was more hour-wise than usual.It was a big week. I kinda felt like I was coming into my own in some ways, and I learned a great deal about some aspects of the working world I hadn't previously Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-66355924439938771722007-11-13T14:13:00.001-05:002007-11-13T14:19:09.452-05:00I'm going to take the US History I CLEP tomorrow (probably right around when you're going to bed, for many of you at least), and I would REALLY appreciate it if you would pray for me to pass it. If I do, and after I get an A in this chemistry online course (and I am REALLY enjoying this course... I've learned so much already that I never even heard of during my high school course, and it's reallyPattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-27228777128258738262007-11-12T22:40:00.000-05:002007-11-12T22:55:33.238-05:00Last night (which would be 'earlier today' for folks in the States), I was watching Jay Leno.. I don't know when this episode was made, but it had Jessica Alba and D.L.Hughley (sp?) and the Cold War Kids performing... and he did a little question-and-answer session with the audience in which they asked planted questions and he had some video clip or prop to show in response.The last question in Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-26809968650515323812007-11-10T15:48:00.000-05:002007-11-10T15:55:02.788-05:00Just in case you're wondering:SunNov 11 Sunny 91°/66°MonNov 12 Sunny 90°/63°TueNov 13 Sunny 88°/64°WedNov 14 Mostly Sunny 88°/64°ThuNov 15 Sunny 88°/64°FriNov 16 Sunny 89°/63°SatNov 17 Sunny 88°/63°SunNov 18 Sunny 88°/63°MonNov 19 Sunny 87°/63° And roughly 83% humidity each day for the next several. And 0% precipitation. I could go sunbathing on Thanksgiving. I've actually seenPattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000104.post-90156282650223057412007-11-10T06:00:00.000-05:002007-11-10T06:58:58.882-05:00Ok, the Five Love Languages has been coming up a lot in my life recently... so here is my self-evaluation on that issue:(I disclaim here that when I very first heard about the book, I really thought I had heard about a general book, not one very much focused on marraige, but it turns out that I was wrong -- which is the case more often than I think I let across.. Anyway, they've got other volumesPattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210814542164987281noreply@blogger.com5