Archive for September, 2004
I took yet another sick day on Friday in order to stay home with Daphne, who has pinkeye. Yuck! She is in good spirits though. She’s taken to reprimanding the cat (“No, cat, no!”) when she gets too frisky, but they still get into the same sorts of trouble – I’m constantly chasing [ READ MORE ]
play ball Originally uploaded by flwombat. I know I keep blathering about Flickr, but I forgot to mention – go here: http://flickr.com/photos/jackpinette/ …to see all of the pictures I have uploaded. This is also the page from which you can subscribe to the (RSS 2.0 or Atom) feed of all of my photos, if you’re enough of a [ READ MORE ]
hmm biere de pinette Originally uploaded by doreyme. This is the kind of crazy-cool stuff you can find by poking around on Flickr – I did a search for photos tagged with “pinette” and this popped up. I have never heard of bière d’épinette before, but apparently it is “spruce beer” (think “root beer”). It’s supposed [ READ MORE ]
TV with Lily Originally uploaded by flwombat. You like quizzes, right? How about testing your knowledge of the Pinette household? Try your hand at this: for each question, guess whether I am talking about Daphne, or her two-month-old kitty-cat, Lily! She spends a significant portion of [ READ MORE ]
So I took Daphne home early on Monday, and stayed home with her Tuesday, as she was sick with a cold. Her nose ran like a faucet, and she coughed some very painful coughs, and she barely slept at all Monday night. She couldn’t breathe when horizontal, so she and I ended up sleeping [ READ MORE ]
Check out the second-to-last paragraph of this story: $3 Trillion Price Tag Left Out As Bush Details His Agenda (washingtonpost.com) Apparently, the war and the tax cuts are costing so much that Bush plans to cut funding for homeland security. Umm. Great. I know the president has been drilling the idea that America Is Now [ READ MORE ]
There are a lot of blogs out there with clever and/or interesting names, like Antipixel or Umami Tsunami or Textism or Dive Into Mark or Daring Fireball or Davenetics or a.wholelottanothing or Boing Boing Blog or Eschaton. You may have noticed that the title of this blog is “jack’s page”. This is a tremendously bad [ READ MORE ]