A Celebration of Mundanity

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There is a scary gnome in my front yard

I noticed something by the one of the bushes as I approached the front door on my way into the house from work today, something odd. %PHOTO{"http://denovich.org/gallery/house/P6280618"}% Upon closer…

Recovering from the madness

I have been exceptionally busy as of late. That sort of busy that makes me feel like I haven't been home for over a week. Yes, I have been here, slept here, ate here and have done a lot of work here.…

Genealogy

I have on a number of occasions expressed my interest in my family history and genealogy. I now have taken action on those interests and developed a family history site utilizing the Wiki. (Yes, I…

Well, that is certainly different

Yesterday, Mark needed to climb the borrowed neighbor's ladder to fix the alignment of our satellite dish, it was either out of alignment due to the large number of recent thunderstorms or the…

In the interest of science or rather... entertainment

I went outside this evening, admiring the fireflies, watching the fleeting pale blink of a slow low flying tiny species, noting the long swooping blink of a mid-level species and those high in the…

Funerals

I don't like funerals, but I go because family is important, even distant relatives of whom I have limited memories of. My grandmother's sister, Sophia, passed away this week. I rarely have the…

Two celebratory things

Happy birthday to my brother Joe! Today I passed the motorcycle safety course and now have my motorcycle license! Wahoo!

Today was a good day

I've logged a few miles of buzzing about the neighborhood on my scooter. I'm mastering second gear. I'm getting much smoother with the clutch between gears, starting and stopping. I have made so much…

Motorcycles and Thoughts on Decorating.

Busy. Still Lymey, but recovering nicely. I've been on the antibiotics for five days now and the symptoms have disappeared, still feeling just slightly warm but that just might be my imagination. I…

Is it a rite of passage?

Or a field biologist's badge of honor? Those tick bites I had while in the field two weeks ago gave me Lyme disease. A month of antibiotics is all I need to clear it up. But still... I am very…