Susie's Meanderings

Easter Eggs

I dyed eggs gloriously alone this easter, no watching to make sure the kids weren't either about to spill the diye or mix the orange and blue. I got all dozen eggs to myself and one egg in each dye cup to sit and stew at its leisure, with nobody complaining that I was hogging the dye.

More Pictures

Well, I've loaded a few more photos. I actually took these back in August, and when I went back this month, all the flowers had gone to seed, and the field of sunflowers was battened down for the winter. How can summer be over already?

For those of you who were with me in Chicago when we all went off to see Dale Watson, he's going to be in town this weekend. He's playing at the Tractor Tavern at 9:00 this Friday. If you didn't go see him with me, he's sort of a Johnny Cash / honky tonk anti-country country musician. His show's a lot of fun, and well, I'll be there, so if anyone's up for a night out, I'll see you there.

Update

Well, after over a year of temping at the same company, they've finally made an honest woman out of me and hired me permanently. I must say if you'd told me ten years ago that I would one day live my life running sql queries and making them pretty in Excel... well to tell the truth, I wouldn't have known what either of those things were. Remarkably, I really enjoy it, and am in the process of pursuing my MCDBA. (I realized one week into my C# class that I am definitively NOT cut out to be a developer - I liked making the pretty user interface, but had NO idea how to make the code do anything with it).
As to the cats - they have what can best be described as an armed truce, and occasionally run elaborate running battles with lots of dramatic standing on the hind legs and batting each other, only to curl up in their respective spots in the kitty tower. No pictures yet.

Inside of a Tulip

More photos posted on Flickr...I filled up my whole 2 GB card with pictures of my very paltry garden, but they're all close ups, so you'll never know that I only have one of each flower. I have a new kitty now too, so prepare for an onslaught of cute kitties playing pictures. As yet, they're just past the hissing at each other stage, and not quite to the playing stage, so it may be awhile yet.

Easier Said than Done

Well, I'll try this for now. You can still comment, but now your name and email are required. I thought I already had it set up that way, but we'll see how this works for the time being.
Comment away... unless you're a comment spammer.

Removing Comments

Well, it's that time of year again when I have to decide if I want to renew my domain name again. I think I do, though I've become terribly lackadaisacal about posting.
However, the opportunity has come up at work to do a little minor web design (very simple, just updating a style sheet, but apparently our web team was unwilling to take it on, so I volunteered), so it seems like it would be useful to have something to practice on.
In the meantime, I'm taking away the ability to comment until I have the time and energy to figure out how to keep the comment spam away. I've already locked it down to only recent posts, but now they seem to be waiting like vultures for a new post, which discourages me even further. So, most of you know how to email me anyway, and I'd like to hear from you, and should I ever stop working 50 hour weeks and attending 8 hours of class, maybe I'll bring the comments back.