January 2009

Coyote bait

January 23, 2009

Cassie the Corgi is not quite as large as a grown jackrabbit in a good foraging year. In the eyes of some, she is small, tender, fuzzy, and juicy-looking. This evening we had a close encounter with a pair of those eyes. We were ambling up the backside of our block, taking in the balmy [...]

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Eeek! Don’t mess with the RSS feed!

January 23, 2009

Okay, okay. The full-text version of the RSS feed is BACK! Dinosaurs 0. Mammals 2.

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RSS feed changed to summary

January 23, 2009

If you’re reading Funny through an RSS feed, you’ll be seeing a summary instead of the former full post. This setting is recommended by WordPress, so I just discovered. You can click on “more” to see the entire text and graphics. I have yet to figure out how one gets an RSS feed to a [...]

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Credit cards, debit cards, cash cards

January 23, 2009

Good grief! Rousted out of the sack at 6:30 ayem by the bulk trash pickup, flashing their lights into the bedroom. I thought it was the Fire Department! Grr…I’d planned to sleep in for a while today, after working myself stupid yesterday on a horrifically mind-numbing project. {Ugh!} Speaking of bulk trash, what do we [...]

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Domani!

January 22, 2009

Huge, tedious, difficult project done today. Tight on deadline for another assignment (fun, at least). Dark. Dog lobbying for a walk. Two posts in draft. Tomorrow! Isak Dinesen (so they say). With Pandora’s Box?

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Moments of Fame

January 21, 2009

MoneyNing hosts the 161st Festival of Frugality this week, with a very large selection of highly entertaining and interesting posts, among them (possibly not highly entertaining, but at least making the grade) is Funny’s report on the success of the space heater at cutting power bills. Christian PF has a really goodlist of legal places [...]

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