A rainbow appeared at 7:30 p.m. after a big thunderstorm.
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Glen showed me how to put links to my project web pages on my blog! They are under the heading “Projects.” Now you can find my jigsaw puzzles again!
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I believe it was Tuesday morning as I was going into my building at the beginning of the work day, I saw that one of our small trees near the door had been decorated by some ambitious spiders. I of course had to take a picture or two. These are really big pictures, but I wanted you to be able to see the spider, who is visible if you look closely. Perhaps these dramatic webs, which I do not remember seeing in past years, are a result of the constant rain. Any spiderologists who are reading may share some information with us on that! I just think they are fantastic creations.
And, to be fair, here is “almost” equal time for the fly…
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My month off work is almost gone, and it has been too short! I have been looking around at all of the things I have done, and I think the time has been well spent. I won’t make a list here, because it would be too long for anybody to read anyway!
I will say that I watched a movie just about every day, from Glen’s collection of DVD’s and videos or in the theater. We not only watched movies, but we had time to talk about them. Since I watched these with Glen, this has been something like a 6-credit-hour graduate seminar in movies. You can read Glen’s movie reviews at Anvil & Sprocket if you wish to participate in the seminar.
Maybe I will get around to telling about some of the other activities, like the trip to South Carolina, the family reunion, the high school class reunion, the good food and the good books, taking care of my plants and my house, at a later time. To my friends from work who took care of things there and let me have the time away, thanks for not calling! I will see you on Monday!
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I have a 10-month contract at Emory & Henry, which is great if you can plan for the summer off! This summer, they asked me to work through June, but they have agreed to just stack up work on my desk during July.
So I have a whole month off work!
Today is my first day at home. I am happy to say that I did not get the least bit bored! I made soup at lunch, did some laundry, cleaning, and vacuuming, sorted out some stuff on the back porch, and got a start on a writing project. In addition, I watched a movie with Glen — The Incredible Hulk Returns, one of the movies with the real Hulk, not the cartoon one. I also read half of City of Light, City of Dark , story by Avi and art by Brian Floca. And I wrote this entry for my blog, and it is not even 5:00 p.m. yet.
And I can do all of this great stuff again tomorrow! Maybe with a different movie.
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I have been working on my e-mail, trying to get a reasonable spam filter working, and I think I have it now. The only one that got through today was one offer for the Hillary deck. To be fair, three offers for the Hillary deck were caught in the filter.
So, with my spam filter working, I have time to turn to more important questions and the first thing I want to know is just who is buying all of those decks of cards. Democrats and free-speech tolerant liberal humanist types wouldn’t want them. Republicans are all Christians, and Christians don’t play cards. So who is buying all of the cards?
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So I took John’s Geek Quiz ….
| You are 32% geek | You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator.
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Okay, so I forgot to leave a “comments” option on my previous entry. I am still figuring it out here! Here is the rest of the picture from yesterday, scrunched up into a small file so it can become a Jigzone puzzle, of course. If you like the puzzles, Jigzone lets you have an account and make them from your own pictures. There are a few other puzzles on my web page.
Now, that is entirely enough of that.
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I am playing around here with my new camera and my old Jigzone.com gallery. The camera is a Nikon 3100, and Jigzone .jpg’s have to be pretty small, so I cropped a piece of a photograph for this puzzle.
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Once or twice a year someone sends me e-mail from one of my web pages, so I think people still manage to find them, even though they are pretty well hidden. The ones that I hear from most often are One-Room and Small Schools web page and the Literature and Meaning web page, where I have posted lesson plans for Sarah, Plain and Tall and Blue Heron.
Today I moved these pages to a new server, and some of the links might not work. On this new server everything is case sensitive. That means if the link is to “xyz.jpg” and the file is named “xyz.JPG,” you will see broken link and not be able to find the file. I am of course working slowly through the links to make the necessary changes.
If you are visiting the One-Room and Small Schools web page or the Literature and Meaning web page (lesson plans for Sarah, Plain and Tall and Blue Heron), and you need a broken link to work, send me e-mail and I will fix the one you need right away.
This will all come together in a few days!
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Life in the Third Layer 