I am closing down CSPT. It has become nothing but a meat-grinder for political animosities which have turned into personal animosities. I really don’t like the idea of having to restrict commenters, but not having done so has become an experiment which is simply failing. I can understand that the Phoenician is simply an ass, [...]
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A full season
I just noticed on Jim Lynch’s bRight & Early sidebar, where he has a “countdown” section: he quit smoking 13 weeks ago today; that’s one whole season! My congratulations.
My computer died
The hard drive just crashed, last weekend, while I was reading a comment from the Phoenician; I’m sure it was just a coincidence! It’s in the ‘puter shop, and I’m using an old desktop that belongs to the younger Miss Pico. It runs Vista, which is an abomination unto the LORD, and it used Internet [...]
I worked from 0445 . . .
. . . to 2050 yesterday, so I didn’t get much work done on this site. Sorry about that.
It’s cold and raining again!
I just so blame Al Gort, who’s back in the blogging business again.
100 post marathon?
Our good friend Jim Lynch of bRight & Early has come up with an unusual idea: “The goal is to make 100 posts between now and Monday morning.” Well, it’s Monday evening, and Mr Lynch never came close to 100 posts, but what they really are is a fund raising effort: Mr and Mrs Lynch [...]
The Travails Of Grandparenthood
Let me set the stage a little. We moved. We moved to a piece of countryside with three families living inside a fenced-in piece of land. My german shepherd dog is tethered to a tree via a cable sturdy enough not to snap due to her strength. My dog is tethered because we don’t want [...]
I hope nobody’s legitimate comments went into the spam queue . . .
. . . because, with 245 spam comments captured, I just got lazy and deleted the whole thing without checking beyond the first page.