We try to go for short hikes at Dobson’s Trail every Sunday morning, which I mentioned before. Here are some photos from today’s walk. Click images (that have no people in them) for their full size.

Tags: dobson's trail

the child sits on the curb
staring at the passing cars
the used gum on the road
dead worms drying up
- crunchy like a chinese noodle?
scraping the gum off the pavement
it’s moist underneath and
it leaves a fingerprint on the road
you’re guilty now
the pebbles are small like babies teeth
picking them out (and how it would bawl)
some stay in and [...]

Finally, someone addresses this burning issue. I posed the following question to The Scotch Blog (which EVERYONE should read):
How about an article behind the usefulness (or lack thereof) of corks? Do they serve any practical purpose? Are they only a marketing gimmick? I suspect it’s all about perception, but then you’d think why don’t [...]

I had a persistent, hacking cough for three weeks, sometimes having coughing fits that made me gag. Last Wednesday my daughter and I went to the doctor, because her cough hasn’t been going away either. The doctor said she was fine; the cough would go away soon. He said I had bronchitis, [...]

Tags: cefuroxime, coughing, drugs

I recently discovered CamStudio, an impressive, free Windows program that…
is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using it’s built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
Here’s a short video I created of me starting to create [...]

cat drinking fountain illustrates how to easily create a fountain for cats that prefer running water.
Materials needed:

aquarium water pump
long bowl
duct tape

Our cats drink from the bathtub after we get showers.

The ultimate tax shelter: Owning your own business:
The surest way to reduce your taxes is to convert personal expenditures into allowable deductions. Turn even a hobby into a business and you’ll cut your tax bill.
In a more recent case, a high school teacher’s golfing activity was declared an activity with a profit motive, so he [...]

The Great News Network:
Its objective is to become a leading news organization that reports positive news which has the potential to inspire and motivate our readers to make a better world.
Better than reading meaningless drivel about who had a baby or who’s killing who.