As of today, my presidential voting record is: Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Kerry (ugh), McCain, Obama, Clinton. And on the NJ side, I voted for Jon Corzine and then Chris Christie. Twice. Yep. So trust and believe that I am truly…
Florida travels
Longtime readers know that Dad retired to Florida about 10 years ago. I went down last September after Fall Business Trip #1, and decided to take a quick 4-day spring break trip this year. I mean, how could I pass…
Work from home Mondays
TNP (which isn’t new anymore but I’m too lazy to change pseudonyms) instituted a new policy where we are able to pick one day a week to work from home. We could pick Monday, Thursday, or Friday, which allows us…
Will this tweet?
(resetting my Twitter auto-tweet thingamaroo, pay no attention)
Friday 5: Food Me Once; Food Me Twice
Hello, refreshed blog! Let’s do a Friday 5! Remember those? I do! This week’s topic is “Food Me Once; Food Me Twice.” Speaking of which, I’m going back and cleaning up categories and tags. So far I have 55 posts…
Sha-la-la-la (ugh, erk)
(This post is from October, 2010, and didn’t make it over in the migration to kimberussell.com. I’m adding it manually to make a point.) It’s time again for the Friday five, and this week’s theme is: Every Sha-La-La-La. NB: I…
Webkeeping – April 2007
Every now and then I’ll run site stats. The most fascinating part is the search referrer section. That’s where I can see what people were searching for in Google/Yahoo when they found my site. I deliberately misspelled some of these…
What the heck kind of mailing list am I on?
Back in January I received an AARP card. I received a second one at the beginning of March. Didn’t blog that one because my arthritis was flaring up. (rolls eyes) Today, among the stack of junk mail I received a…
out on the briney…
On the Disney Magic – Day 2 at Sea
Anniversary!
Total surprise. We were getting to leave for our Segway tour of Epcot’s World Showcase when Thor popped this box out of his pocket. Six diamonds plus eight sapphires (my birthstone) make for one puddly Gypsy. We were the first…
Wahooo!!!
So today I hop on the scale…for the first DNW since … a while … and I was in at 158.8. Sweet Merciful Crap! That’s about 3 down from what I last TOLD you I weighed. On a hunch, I…
Nanowrimo Tumble Dry update
Update: My novel, Tumble Dry is now at 30,355 words. To finish by midnight on 11/30, I need to write 2455 words a day. I’m going to shoot for 2500 – 3000 since I want to cushion a bit to…