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Moderator Comment by Deb on May 1, 2012 at 11:45am

Watching is totally fine!  Just don't ask me to do any projects.  That might definitely get something thrown. >:-)

Moderator Comment by Deb on April 30, 2012 at 12:55pm

I am recovering (or trying to!) from physical over-exertion!  Groan!  But my spirits are in good shape.  Just wish my right shoulder and arm and hand was.  I need to rest it, but there is just too much demanding attention.   

BTW, I like the new green color on the website.  Very cool and relaxing to the eye.

Moderator Comment by John on April 22, 2012 at 2:04pm

gads... 8-14" snow tonight through Tues. (x 2.54 for cm).

The flowers are at full-spring+ bloom. Gorgeous here. Interesting...

Another job rejection came yesterday. lots of fun.

w.r.t. climate, the climateprediction.net site is starting an ensemble approach to examine the recent weather variability-extremes to see how anthropomorphic factors have played in. This would mean picking things like the massive heat wave in Russia etc. and examining all effects of the climate to pinpoint the actual causes (i.e. causes of the causes). People might want to help on that. It takes mammoth CPU time to do these. They need help.

In the mean time... take the window air-conditioner out and check the furnace. Will need that for tonight I guess (for a day or 2). If you want to assure that you will get snow, put one of your window air-conditioners in. Nature loves to take aim at an optimist.

Moderator Comment by John on April 11, 2012 at 1:26pm

on 3/16 I wrote:

"Anyway. with this much good weather it really should snow on Easter. It has two chances this year as well."

I was wrong. It is snowing now exactly between the two Easters. It has been great weather for weeks. Nature knew I was onto its trickery. But, it still won the weather war. It got two Easters' at once.... kinda.

Not really sticking much. It is impressive. You can even see the shadow of the flakes falling (sun is out - sometimes).

Moderator Comment by John on April 6, 2012 at 4:24pm

Hmmmm  Good Friday for Rome and Protestantism.

I will wait until next week. The Orthodox schedule seems a bit more realistic.

So, how to cure the blues while waiting for another job interview result..

 Read some Elaine Pagels? maybe watch a MilleniuM rerun? They do have an episode that opens with Patti Smith's "dancing barefoot" and has a lot of Gnostic overtones. Title is even "Anamnesis".

Comment by Ferran Sanz Orriols on March 30, 2012 at 4:43am

 ... yes, music has a magical power... my friend who passed away last week was very fond of "wonderful tonight" by Eric Clapton... 

Moderator Comment by Deb on March 29, 2012 at 10:27am

After a roller coaster ride of the past two weeks, there is a short lull in the action of my life, soon to pick back up.   A few days after I posted the message below, I had to do one of the most painful things a person must - I had to have a beloved pet euthanized.  What I thought was a hairball in my cat, turned out to be a cancerous tumor.  That was a horrible day, and all the "spiritual thoughts" and esoteric knowledge in the world could not dull my pain that day.  So I just dived in it and let it flow through me and around me.  I miss him a lot, and still feel sad, but every day gets easier to be happy, and not feel like I'm in mourning all the time.  Funny how we humans get so emotionally involved with our animal companions.  Just yesterday I happened to see an article on MSN.com about the psychology of that and why people are often more upset over losing a pet than a human family member. 

But I'm back in gear now, and it's onward and hopefully upward for me. 

Moderator Comment by Deb on March 16, 2012 at 3:08pm

The weather here is really lovely, warmer than usual for this time of year, even though we are in the South.  It's been Spring Break here all this week, so very quiet.  I would love to have gone somewhere, done something worth remembering,  but alas...   Too much other stuff going on, not the least of which is a sick cat.  After a battery of tests that all turned out normal, the vet has finally acceded to my diagnosis:  a massive hair ball that he just couldn't shift.  So...  he is spending the day under sedation at the vet's to have said hair ball removed.  I won't go into any further details to spare all of you your delicate stomachs!  :-)    But I certainly hope we can put this unpleasantness behind us (me and the cat, that is).   

Moderator Comment by John on March 16, 2012 at 2:59pm

Spring appears to have come really early this year. I think it is nature testing our gullability before a whiplash... probably get a blizzard tonight. I made ice tea outdoors. That is usually good for 6 inches of snow.

Weather is weird. we had times where it was changing so fast it was kinda neat.

go out the front door for the snow. go out the back door for the rain go to the west side for the bright sunny day. NOAA actually had one day's forecast as 43 degrees (F) with snow between 3pm-4pm. I almost did a screen-save on that forecast.

Anyway. with this much good weather it really should snow on Easter. It has two chances this year as well.

Easter is on the 8th (Rome) and the 15th (orthodox). Having Easter before passover always struck me as rather silly. 

Comment by Ferran Sanz Orriols on February 20, 2012 at 9:27am

Om namah Shivay!!! Have a blissful Mahashivaratri everyone!!!

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