My Sacramento Accent

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland   "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
The Inland North
North Central
The West
Philadelphia
Boston
The South
The Northeast
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Start your day with an ash-can fire

What a smell, burning cigarette filters and dog-ends. It's bad enough people have to smoke in this spot, which has an overhang, keeping the smoke close to the entrance to the library, so that it gets on your clothes.

Anyway, it looks like the mobile posting is messed up again on Blogger. So I will post these some other way for a while, until I get really tired of it an give up entirely, or the fix the problem.

Beaver den

In the middle of Spruce Swamp

Getting kid after checking out a school

Not this one, but it is just down the street.

Sledding in the State forest

Carefully groomed run

Night tennis at Trull Brook

I'll feel it in the morning

Back to Working Assets

We had canceled our Working Assets long distance service because we decided to go with a cable TV/internet/phone bundle to save money. So they called us with what sounded like a good deal on wireless. They'd buy out our current contract, give us two of these Katana phones, which the guy said were the latest thing and would take better pictures than my Motorola, and all for about what we are paying now.

Wrong. He didn't know what he was talking about. It would have cost considerably more to get it to send pictures as text message attachments, $15 per month (currently I pay about $5) per phone. Worst thing, though, was that I got this box of phones and stuff via UPS with little instruction as to how to make them work. The packing list said the phones were ready to go, which was completely wrong, they didn't even have phone numbers. And when I tried to use them they connected me to Sprint. They wasted about three hours of my life without any kind of idea of how they might make recompense, so I bundled everything back up and shipped it back to WALD.

Dropped son at prospective school

He did not like it at all.

The dentist's bathroom

Just got out of x-ray and cleaning and am spitting blood and chunks of mouth-beef into the sink.

Finally some snow

About two inches last night

Break-fast fundraiser

The electric pancake griddles keep blowing the 10-amp fuses. So we stood by the breaker board in shifts to keep resetting them. Then on the way to work the radiator on the Subaru finally fell apart.