Inspired by BJ's post of this morning.

 

 

Toledo is just up the road from Madrid, and we went there as a morning trip on the second day of our tour.

 

Landscape on the way - agriculture; also an Airbus factory and lots of furniture factories & showrooms.

 

 

 

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So we arrived at the Madrid airport, and looked around for someone holding a Trafalgar sign. Nada. Other tour operators were holding signs and gathering up the lambs. One tour operator, however, had no one come to him. And we had no tour operator.

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And back to the gloom and chill of our local winter, the way God intended...at least for those of us of northern extraction. (The God in question would be Thor, I guess.)

It was snowing when our plane landed in Ottawa. However, apparently in our absence the weather

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I yelled at my daughter to get away from the car.  She replied that she was leaning on it to keep from sliding on the ice.  I pointed out, at high volume, that the damned CAR was sliding on the ice, Park and Brake notwithstanding.

She stepped back, onto

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Okay, you guys figure out what's going on with ... the happy couple, or whatever the hell. I'm outta here.

 

Some while back I said I'd be in the Bay Area this coming week and asked if anyone would like to get together for a meet-up.  Deafening silence ensued.… Read full post »

Mt. Etna is erupting again.  Roberto Luigi posted about it, complete with fiery photos, and it made me think about my visit there several years ago.

Here's a current photo, from the internet:

 

 

 

When my friend and I were on the mountain, it was being quiet.… Read full post »

I got a Tassimo machine a few weeks ago and have been enjoying cappuccino, latte, cafe crema, chai and hot chocolate.  Mostly cappuccino.

 

 

 

This is a latte, but looks the same...tastes much the same.  

 

The other day the news came out that a number… Read full post »

 

 

I felt quite silly and inadequate sitting around in my ordinary state of mind whilst all about me people were tripping.  Must have been four or five times before something happened.

 

And when it did, it wasn't much fun...

 

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A friend sent around an ad for a “fairy workshop”, where people would learn to do meditations to get in touch with the fairies and then make a little “door” to install on their property to call fairies in.

From Ann Arbor, MI, where they have fairy

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...according to some right-wing fundie people, whose cherry-picking of the scriptures doesn't sync with that of the prez.  The following is from The Washington Times.  (Hey, isn't that the Moonie paper?)

 

President Barak Obama tragically misrepresented a Bible verse in his spee… Read full post »

I just took off my over-sweater because I was unaccountably hot.  I checked the thermometer.  It's getting close to 40 outside and over 70 inside! That's ridiculous.  It's 9.15 at night at the beginning of February in eastern Ontario.

 

 

 

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Here's your picture, enlarged, so we can read the writing on the side of the building.

 

 

 

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My Google alerts brought me news of an inmate in a Maine prison who is sueing to be allowed his Satan worship.

 

This matter came up every once in a while when I was doing Pagan chaplaincy in Canadian prisons.  

 

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Daniel Rigney wrote about his “Hal 9000 GPS”. Very funny. Check it out.

His post reminded me that I was going to write about my experiences with GPS.

I didn't have much interest in getting one because, like, I hardly go anywhere I don't know where

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Oklahoma Republican seeks to ban use of aborted fetuses in food products

byKaili Joy Gray

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I am going to be in the Bay area in mid February.  Looks like San Francisco on 16th, San Jose 17 to 21, and godknowswhere after that...

 

If anybody is interested in a meet-up at that time&place, please comment or PM.  Read full post »

 

So my fine wireless shortie Apple keyboard died, as they do all too quickly, and I happened to be in TBJ!, formerly Woolworth's Five & Dime, or something.  One step up from Dollarama.  They have keyboards!  I bought the cheapest, at ten bucks or something.  Naturally, o… Read full post »

 

 

Once upon a time there was a psychology prof who handed out astrological 'readings' to his students, ostensibly based on their sun-signs, and asked for comments. OMGDZ, so right on! was the response from everyone, and he would have had a class full of *believers* had

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"...an admirably worthy conservative alternative to Romney."

 

Which candidate would you suppose received this description from a well-known pundit?

 

Hint - he's the one that thinks the country really should have a discussion about birth-control...and then ban it. Birth-control, that is..… Read full post »