Friday, February 04, 2005
"Love without attachment is light."
- Norman O. Brown
I've been having problems getting the email to post to BLOGGER for some reason... even after deleting the pix and attachment I originally attempted to send. I'll just keep sending over and over and... nothing. Maybe the read receipt option in OE should be off?... I'll try that... nope.
Let's try BLOGGER's site for info... BLOGGER KNOWN ISSUES: (there are many) http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=791
I have been using an international character in my 'Good bye' (Tjada) with the last 'a' having a circle do-hickey above it ((see Swedish (Sweden, Finland) [informal] at http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/goodbye.htm))... edited... NOW let's try posting this puppy!!!!!!!!
I'll try the "Compose" mode for posting (instead of laboring in HTML)... Note: It's proving to be nearly as laborious.
Test... pictures?
Picture of my Grandpa Nichols.
Irfanview http://www.irfanview.com/ updated to v. 3.95 with a download of the main prog (857 KB) and its plugins (4.5 MB)... a most excellent freeware viewer and image editor that I've used for a number of years with much enthusiasm.
Mom... the 44th anniversary of her 29th birthday recently.
Relatively mild winter continues: Only traces of snow at home this January... much, much more in the Sierra's. Budding of the willows and figs early in January... the lilacs and plum tress budding now. Wood... an ongoing chore.
Precious, one of our house cats, had an abscess on her chin that is now much better. Two adolescent cats neutered... 'Mocha' and 'Binx' (or 'Little Poop'). I named the male 'Little Poop' because it was adopted by Gail's basset dog 'Maddie' who I have always called 'Poop' (for the "gift" left in my 'office' the day she arrived from South Dakota). 'Poop', by the way, was adopted by a cat named 'Missy' when she arrived. 'Mocha', whom we had previously adopted out to my brother-in-law's daughter Virginia and significant-other's daughter Carly, is visiting during their interim relocation.
PS/2 replacement for grandson David... the original lasted a week after Christmas, evidently a bad laser. The new one is the slimmer version recently released.
Foxes and coyotes and lions and... no bears... yet. I had no idea that foxes ate apples!!! Geese and blackbirds and Stellar's jays quite abundant. Frogs creakin' up a holler with the ponds full to overflowing with our seasonal creek. A multitude of dead skunks noted when driving about.
Gail to the hospital via ambulance for severe back pain. A couple of bulging disks in her vertebrae that muscle relaxants and potent pain killers seem to help. Unfortunately the meds make her ill... making her loathe to take them.
Bible study on Mondays starting with The New Testament: Matthew: 1. "True to the Faith" study for newcomers still on Wednesdays... I really got a kick out of playing a game called "zip-zap-bonk" we were taught as a possibility for an activity for family home evenings. Tonight's class was on fasting... a good gospel reference being Isaiah Chapter 58.
Johnny Carson's passing.
Innumerable aftershocks still occurring in the Indonesian area afflicted by the 9.0 quake and tsunamis last month. Survivors still being found!!! the latest on Great Nicobar Island.
Iraqi elections. Prelude to civil war?... I pray not.
Eagles vs. Patriots in The Super Bowl... hmmmm, I'll guess Patriots 27 / Eagles 21. I'll miss the televised game. Guess I'll catch the ESPN highlights on Monday.
Waterbed sprung a terminal leak... Gail's attempts to patch the leaks have proved fruitless (note: never attempt to clean waterbeds with gasoline... don't ask!). Three nights of sleeping on the couch or air mattress or recliner not exactly doing wonders for Gail's chronic pain. We purchased a replacement mattress from LaBries in Sacramento, the same store we purchased the original about ten years ago. LaBries is one of the few remaining waterbed outlets left around these parts.
Our microwave died. That makes about one every year for the last five years. Gail swears that it's the popcorn that kills them.
http://deseretbook.com/mormon-life/news/story?story_id=516 ... Mormon / Muslim... an interesting comparison... from a Google News alert I subscribe to.
Sea...
Calm serenity
Rising, falling, soothing
I long for thy closeness
... ocean
:Bobby Nichols
circa October 2004
A few of the principles of the lesson were: we all have talents; by showing our talents and good works we please God... that Heavenly Father will bless us if we use our talents wisely, especially if we use them to benefit others; we can overcome our weaknesses through practice and perseverance... and turn our weaknesses into strengths; and... we will be "judged" according to our works.
Tjada !!! ... (without the circle do-hickey over the last 'a'!!!)
C'ya.
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