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five things you don’t know about me

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Well, you probably already know I grumble about being tagged (and I even got tagged by a total stranger; no offence, dude, but not biting) but since this is engtech and it’s short and I’m also starved for blog fodder, being offline as I am, I shall do my best with it.

Five things you don’t know about me:

  1. I used to be a professional groom in a hunting stable. Foxes, not moose. Although it must be admitted that when I was exercising the horses I saw several moose and only one fox.
  2. I was the all-time toboggan champeen when I was a kid. I could go farther, I could go faster, I could jump it, do tricks, you name it. Still can.
  3. I’m a pretty good pitcher, but I am awesome at bat, and although I serve underhanded at volleyball I am still pretty much unreturnable. But I pretty much quit playing team sports when puberty hit and they said the boys could play baseball and hockey but the girls could only play softball and ringette.
  4. I have always wanted to root around and find Brother Twelve’s lost gold. Some day I’ll get myself a couple of clear weeks in the summer and hit the archives and the salvage supply store and go all Indiana Jones.
  5. I was a worldbeater as a Girl Guide. I had 53 badges, 7 emblems and 2 cords. But I barely made it through Brownies for whatever reason. Maybe I just knew at a young age that I looked better in blue.
  6. bonus item: as of Friday, I’m a redhead.

Operation Global Media Dominaton: the imperfect storm

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I think we all know what a 45-degree angle looks like. And we know what a slope, dropping down at 45 degrees looks like. Like fun skiing, like nasty winter driving, like…

the stats for my blog ever since the Internet went out at my house.

Oh, they’ll recover, I suppose. It’s just a wee titch annoying that once I’d (or rather, you’d) finally cranked the hits up to almost 2k a day, Mother Nature (just as much of a bitch as my biological mother, and quite possibly as big a bitch as my stepmother, although it must be admitted, somewhat less likely to sell off my family heirlooms to purchase dreadful antiques and very definitely less likely to stencil cows with gingham aprons all around the ceiling of any rooms; Mother Nature prefers her cows with all four hooves firmly on the ground, except when she likes to send them flying in windstorms, which brings us back to why I still have no internet and why Mother Nature is a bitch).

God hates blogs.

Leslie Harpold: advent to ascent

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advent calendar Leslie Harpold

No need for a calendar anymore, Leslie Harpold.

Multi-talented Internet personality, muse, mentor, inspiration and creator of the famous online Advent Calendar Leslie Harpold died at home over the weekend of complications of bronchitis.

She’d hate this to be tied to classic didacticism, but she’d hate being dead, too, so I’m going to go ahead and take this opportunity to remind people to get themselves checked out when they get sick. Sure, you may think the doctor will assume you’re a wuss, but better that he see you every fall and think you’re a wuss than he not see you this year and never get the chance to again. You can’t tell when it’s potentially fatal pneumonia or pleurisy or whatever…he can.

The Advent Calendar is frozen on December 7, and serves as a poignant memorial to a woman who was more interested in what magic she could bring to or bring out in other people than in herself.

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who has rolled away the stone?

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Ah, that would be telling! Like I said, Gawker, use a silver bullet next time.

Hello latte

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Hello LatteThis was sent to me by a Norwegian residing in Japan whom I’ve never met, and who found me online through the title of a newsletter I used to edit, which also happened to be her first name. Still is, as far as I’m aware, unless she went and changed it because of the notoriety.

Because we are, as you know, all about the decorative caffeinated beverages here on the ol’ raincoaster blog, when she saw this she felt compelled to forward it here, just for me ‘n thee.

Those Japanese really DO have too much time on their hands, dontcha think?

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