This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image. Via: Flickr Title: photo_0038.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 2 Oct ’05, 2.26pm PST
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This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image. Via: Flickr Title: photo_0034.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 25 Sep ’05, 6.25pm PST
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This is Ginny’s brain, not on drugs, at the end of the work day and on the way to Holy Moly to do some emergency cleaning. As you can see, she is not a happy camper. This was the scene yesterday as I drove away (finally) from work after a long frustrating day trying to keep up with about 4 different accounts’ worth of niggling little problems, ticketing errors, questions, last-minute hotel group changes, and a couple of things that I can’t even categorize except that I now know that I had the information I so badly needed at the…
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Okay, I have no idea why the Halloween candy bowl came out this week at work. My TL keeps bringing in candy and refilling it, but most of the time it contains the dregs of the candy world: green and blue Jolly Rangers. An online acquaintance (hi, Leibniz!) complains of a similar candy bowl at his coordinates in space/time/ectoplasm, except that his dregs consist of root beer barrels in addition to Jolly Ranchers. As to why this stuff is appearing, more than 2 months in advance, I really can’t tell you, but it’s not doing me any good. It’s right…
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Lunch at the Arboretum: cranberry and goat cheese salad with raspberry vinaigrette, yum! There’s a Flickr group called “Lunch!” so I added this image to the pool. I had raspberry iced tea, too. I was in a berry good mood. 😉 Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57. Title: photo_0015.jpg
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Image title: photo_0014.jpg We went for a short jaunt today to Morton Arboretum – started with lunch, then went over to the west side to see an area we’ve never visited before, the Schulenberg Prairie. First things first, though. Cool off in the visitor’s center, then relax in the cafe. Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57.
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Okay, so I was running around doing errands before the big classic car show (“The Holy Rollers are coming, aiyeee, et cetera”) at Holy Moly tomorrow, and I passed this sign. Now, previously we’ve always been focused on pledges and budgets and can we afford this and that and “we’ve always done it this way” each year, and not really doing much to actually HELP people less fortunate than ourselves. Because to put it baldly, compared with some of the people and charities we’ve been talking about supporting, we’re rolling in dough. Yes, comparatively, and that’s in a year where…
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The Flickr 7/7 Community (formerly the London Bomb Blasts group) has got some amazing images from today’s terrorist attack in London. Some are cameraphone shots, some are screenshots showing worldwide coverage, some are pictures of TV coverage from around the globe, some are just images posted in support. This one is by Marvin(PA) and includes lyrics by Peter Gabriel: Fear, Fear, she’s the mother of Violence, Don’t make any sense to watch the way she breed. Fear, she’s the mother of Violence, Making me tense to watch the way she feed. The only way you know she’s there Is the…
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We’re all Londoners today. I’m taking my London Underground mug to work today just to remember the marvel that is the Tube, and to be in solidarity with the people of London. I asked my husband David if he was going to wear his beloved “Mind the Gap” T-shirt to work, but he thought that would be too flippant. I imagine things at work are going to be somewhat hairy until we figure out if we have many travelers in London – I just ran a report of all the international records we currently have yesterday, and from what I…
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The bracelets arrived yesterday – I ordered 5 from MakePovertyHistory early last week, and even with the high demand and last minute nature of the order, the Royal Mail still got them to me just as things are starting to get interesting in Edinburgh. One recent pitched battle between protesters, who sound like an unruly but well-coiffed lot, was described by The Guardian as “The Battle of the Gerania.” The paper’s Backbencher adds some amusing and/or alarming details of conditions in “Auld Reekie,” when the shops were full of people taking advantage of sales while waiting for scruffy activists and…