Today is my birthday, and I am forty. Say it loud, say it proud – I am forty! I have no intention of any celebration, because – as you all know – I am a hermit and relish my solitude. I look forward to a wonderful evening of doing nothing!
The present I am [...]
13. December 2009
Lloyd and I went to our third Christmas party in a row tonight. (You can imagine how much Hermit Girl looks forward to those.) While we had a very nice time, the ride home was AWFUL! We had a foggy day that turned into a slight freezing drizzle, so there was a [...]
Continue reading...8. December 2009
“Let’s go for a walk,” Lloyd said.
“It will be relaxing,” Lloyd said.
“We’ll take pictures of the snow for a post,” Lloyd said.
So, we did. Bundled up in the super-insulated Eddie Bauer coats of yore (they’re so warm, they must be made of penguins), we took the camera outside. It’s blizzard-y, but we were [...]
26. November 2009
So, I caught some sort of bug, which isn’t surprising considering all the sick children I’ve been around lately. Wednesday night I watched t.v. on the couch until I fell asleep, which is actually one of my favorite things to do.
All was well until 1:18.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
Stumbling [...]
4. November 2009
God bless CitiBank. I’ve received a few ‘Early Fraud Detection’ calls in the past few weeks, but they all turned out to be me. (We buy stuff for school, which can sometimes be crazy large amounts from strange places.)
A couple of days ago I got one that most definitely wasn’t me. Two [...]
28. October 2009
The scene: Monday night. We are tired. Lloyd is working in front of his giant monitor.
Lloyd: “Come read my new rubric for web design class.” (That’s right, we use words like ‘rubric’ around here. We’re Smarty-Smartersons.)
Me: “Mm-hmmm. Yes… looks good….” (Counting in my head to seventy-five while staring at the [...]
21. October 2009
This is the email that I sent out this morning before I drove off:
The NE Technology Coordinator’s Fall meeting (or as I like to call it,
“The day all the computers in Nebraska schools stop working.”) Is
happening in Grand Island today. If you need me, that’s where I’ll
be.
–Lloyd
About an hour later I received a flurry [...]
16. December 2009
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