http://david.shackelford.org ...planet Olympia Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:53:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Check out the updates at Apoidea Projects. http://david.shackelford.org/?p=677 Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. -George Carlin http://david.shackelford.org/?p=676 A light reading of the newspaper has been my only real newsource for quite a while now, but today I decided to see what the presidential candidates were saying. Here are the videos they both released today. If their takes here were all I had to go on, which way ... http://david.shackelford.org/?p=675 This article in the Wall Street Journal this week nicely captured my dilemma. Most of my work is crisis-oriented: I'm on call for different projects and problems, most requiring "soon as possible" attention, although in reality they are easily rankable from "pants-on-fire" to "wouldn't-it-be-nice" to "you-want-to-pay-me-to-save-you-seventy-seconds-a-year?" Part of what I've been ... http://david.shackelford.org/?p=674 http://david.shackelford.org/?p=673 Well, some of you were wondering what was going on with the horses. A neighbor brought them by to live at our place for a few days, and we had a lot of fun with it. H has been out of town for a week and will be getting back ... http://david.shackelford.org/?p=671 http://david.shackelford.org/?p=670 I know. I suck at blogging now. I was just telling my brother-in-law that I think it has to do with the fact that most of what I'd be prone to writing about wouldn't be things I'd want to engage random people with. But now that I've said it, I ... http://david.shackelford.org/?p=669 For the last six years or so the normal dawn routine is to wake from dreamless sleep, or occasionally wake knowing that I probably dreamed about something but have no idea what. Once in a long while I might have a name in my grasp when I opened my eyes, ... http://david.shackelford.org/?p=664 This holiday weekend the kids have Friday and Monday off, so my wonderful in-laws took them Thursday night and gave us a three day vacation. We decided to stay home and put monies we would have had to use on lodging toward eating well and enjoying being home. We ate ... http://david.shackelford.org/?p=663