Asymptomatic

A couple of weeks ago, I headed out of the house for a lunch meeting. It was 12:30 on a Friday, and both kids were at school. Being that it was a just a lunch, I didn't think much of how it would affect the rest of my day.

The lunch ran a bit long. I didn't leave until somewhere around 3:45, and I figured I would pick up a couple of things on the way home, including the weekend fish feeders that we needed for during our upcoming trip. Being that it was just lunch, it never even occurred to me that it was so late in the afternoon that Abby would be done school and waiting for me at home.

While driving home, I got a call from a number I didn't recognize. Our neighbor across the street and a few doors down had heard Abby sobbing on our front porch. She took her up the street to stay with another of our neighbors, and that is who called me. How thoroughly mortifying.

It took me until 4:20 to get home, cursing traffic the whole way. I drove straight to my neighbor's house, where I found Abby playing cheerfully. I was very glad that we have great neighbors that would help out like this, but thoroughly shamed that this escaped me. more

Let's just say that where I live, I have to pay something like $15 just to be able to play with snow. Only thing is, it's available 24/7. Ok, except when the place is closed. ;p

Ok, jokes aside, the only two instances where I've come into contact with real snow was in Korea while on holiday and while trekking in Nepal. I didn't have any incidents during my brief enounter with said snow. Not too sure whether to be happy or sad. Still, it was a wonderful experience.

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So it's Free For All Friday thing and letting my readers make new posts to my site. This should be dangerous...

Prize info after the break!

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I'm going to do the Free For All Friday thing and letting my readers make new posts to my site. This should be dangerous... (Prize info below!)

Here are the rules, more-or-less cobbed from the FFAF site:

1. Please keep it somewhat clean...if you don't think I would post it, don't. (Note that my use of profanity here is pretty limited - there is an actual policy I abide by, but posting the policy would violate the policy.)
2. I will delete and or edit any posts I feel are inappropriate.
3. Please don't forget to sign your post and pimp your blog. If I don't know who you are I can't come to your blog and share the fun.
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I had this political discussion with Brian via IM last October. I wonder how much (if at all) his position has changed. I thought it was interesting and thought-provoking enough to repost here, and I suspect that some readers might have reasonable comments.

Brian: 1) what was the buffy website addy and 2) we really need to debate us some politics.Owen: Huh?Brian (quoting my site): This really isn't new, most people who read this site probably know this. But the new news is that experts on the intelligence gathered in Iraq have now said that while they watched Powell give his case for war to the UN, he must have knowingly liedr [Link].

I don't really find this stuff shocking any more. I'm just anxious to get Bush out of the White House. Put in a Democrat for all I care, just get the faith-based senile war-mongering out of my government, and give me back my $87 billion. Owen: Oh, I thought that was in relation to the buffy stuff.Brian: nah.. two different topics.Owen: What did you want to say in regard to the Bush garbage I posted this morning?Brian: That I'm ready and willing to go to bat for him, for his administration, for the case for the war, etc, systematically disprove idiots like the former aid to Powell who spouted that crap, and demonstrate the validity of the case.Owen: Ugh.Brian: indeed. more