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Time Stretch

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This week has gone slower than the week before and the week before and the week before and the week before. It’s just perspective, but even so, it’s as real and anything can get.

A new year dawned 6 days ago. Christmas even longer ago. Getting to each event was fast. Now with this one new week, they seem so distant, removed and far away. At some point in the last two weeks in our house we were talking about the PS Vita “that it’s only … away!” when we’d get ours. Now it feels stretched out of reach, just over the horizon, something that was right in view all the time, anxious for the day to arrive, now it seems further away than ever.

It’s only perspective. It’s been one of those weeks, this and that, news of internet stuff, be it threats of one group or another, to make things unpleasant for many, many folks. These times are insane, it doth seem.

Mild, Cold, Mild

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1/12 of the year is almost already over. Fast month!

The start of this month, the New Year, the weather was oh so very spring-like mild. Now here it is the end of the month, and it is also oh so very spring-like mild. Warm the last day or so, today it’s gentle rain, overcast, but not cold.

It was very cold in-between, lots of cold, normal for Georgia.

As it goes, whenever it is more mild, my allergies are awful. Such is the case these past days.

Well there goes my “gently raining” idea. It’s POURING now. Oh well. We need rain anytime of the year, we’ve had so many drought periods since living here, it’s not anything I’d like to revisit. So I welcome the rain, even though I feel like crap.

Happy 2011

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The new year was greeted by us with some Black Cat Firecrackers, 1 cake Johnny B. Good (30-shots), and 1 other cake Thunder Mountain (33-shots).

Some neighbors shot off mortars here and there after dark set in, here and there, and more as midnight grew closer. We only had firecrackers for the entire night, with “the big show” with our cakes saved for midnight.

The weather was decent for fireworks, mild, a tad chilly, but not bad. Fairly good skies, thin clouds high above, plenty of room in the sky for fireworks. Light breezes now and then, most smoke cleared out from fireworks being shot off fast enough not to be an annoyance in viewing the show(s). Breezes disturbed some of the shots the neighbors had earlier in the night. I wasn’t aware of any distortion of our cakes, but they go so differently than the single mortars, they have an overall impact. Mortars are singular, even the double or triple break sort, IMO.

So we are now in another new year. I liked the sound of 2010. It wasn’t hard to get used to. 2011 isn’t so bad, just not as grand sounding, to me, as 2010. I’ve yet to write it out wrong, so maybe it’s an easy change. FWIW

Christmas and New Year

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Happy New Year y’all!

Christmas was nice, though we didn’t have a big tree, nor any decorated tree … with a baby again, and all the stuff that comes with one, with the way our main space is these past few years … there was just not the space for a Christmas tree, nor the energy to “try to fit one in anyhow”. :(

Hubby got me a PSP for Christmas, bundled Lmt. Edition Darth Vader (as sold at Costco). It’s cool, though I’ve done more “web browsing” on it than anything. I got Atari Classics, and Star Wars Battlefront Renegade Squadron, and a couple of movies. I didn’t have Memory Stick Duo for it right away, so I didn’t play games much. I got a Memory Stick a few days after Christmas, and it’s nicer now, I have bookmarks for the web browser and saved data for games, etc. now. I haven’t taken the time to play any games really though. I was able to buy another game and another movie the day we went out and got the Memory Stick Duo. Oh, that is a 4GB Memory Stick Duo Pro, btw.

It’s nice to add more electronics to the stash.

The children got me something too, a new Betta fish. It’s moreso blue all over, with a little bit of orange on the bottom fin area. He has a nice plastic house (it’s an angled betta “bowl” with a blue cover.) I haven’t named him as of yet. He’s so very plain looking, compared to Thaddeus, who has been with us for 1 full year now, and looking good.

The new betta isn’t a Crowntail, as Thaddeus is.

I noticed that the “back” of the new “bowl” is totally flat, and the widest part of the “bowl” and perfect as a place to put something colorful … so I fitted a piece of Christmas wrapping paper to it, and that set him off nicely. He has blue stones, and he’s blue, the top is blue, and the paper is a dark but bright cranberry-ish red with “Merry Christmas” written in gold horizontally all over the paper. I can change that out when ever I desire. I’ll make up a template to make that easier (I didn’t think to do it originally until I already had the water and the betta fish in the “bowl” :rolleyes: )

Our new year is alright, nothing spectacular thus far. I wrote more about it on my other blog.