Slightly Off KIlter

Normal is overrated

  • Weekly Wrap-up 2005_21

    The weather has been quite lovely this week. After dinner on Saturday, we investigated the newly reopened parking area at the western edge of Daly City. It's called Thornton Beach Vista; apparently the original road went down to the beach and was undermined in a bad storm in 1982. Thornton Beach itself is a state… Continue reading

  • Treasures 2005_20

    It's your life that you are living. Don't pick and choose when you'll be there. All of it is yours. No one else suffers more if you waste it than you. Be patient with yourself and make every effort to be fully attentive so that you don't waste any of it. — Angel Kyodo Williams… Continue reading

  • Freecycle

    What do you have sitting on a shelf, under the stairs, or gathering dust in a closet? What do you have that you never use but that's too good to throw out? What do you wish you could just give away to someone who wants it? How do you find the person who wants it?… Continue reading

  • Weekly Wrap-up 2005_20

    The weather was grey and drippy early in the week but finished up clear and warm. Quite nice actually. We did Dim Sum on Sunday. We had 7 people. I had asked for a table for 6 (there were 5 when we arrived; two showed up later) so we could squeeze 7. A good time… Continue reading

  • Toyota Announces Plans for Hybrid Camry

    It looks like Rich and I will get our wishes granted for a hybrid Camry, although we'll have to hold out for a couple of years. Toyota Motor Corp. on Tuesday announced plans to begin producing a gasoline-electric hybrid version of its popular Camry model in late 2006 at its largest North American plant in… Continue reading

  • Treasures 2005_19b

    Treasures are positive things that strike my fancy, that make me feel happy or thankful or interested. Treasures are memories encapsulated in just a few words. Here are "the rest" of my Treasures for the past week. (I'm changing to a Monday-Sunday collection interval.) An apt and timely comic from Lynn Johnston's "For Better or… Continue reading

  • Wordsaver

      Rhaptopetalaceae     alegar     abaft     dikaryon undersaturation   cunctipotent     unavouched   foistiness   engulf     nipperkin   skuddick     befumble   clockmutch   earwort   I found a new screensaver (for Mac OS X). It shows random words, lines, or paragraphs from text files. By default,… Continue reading

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  • Weekly Wrap-up 2005_19

    Still rainy on Monday but clear for the rest of the week. This was good because some people down the street decided to have their roof replaced (old roof removed Tuesday, plywood applied Wednesday, new shingles installed Thursday). I had my performance review at the Job on Wednesday. It was… quite good actually. I got… Continue reading

  • Treasures 2005_19

    Gratitude is an act of awareness. Without awareness, there is no recognition of anything and, therefore, no love of anything. — Tae Yun Kim Treasures are positive things that strike my fancy, that make me feel happy or thankful or interested. Treasures are memories encapsulated in just a few words. These are my Treasures for… Continue reading

  • Weekly Wrap-up 2005_18

    This has been a wet week. Lots of drizzly days and even some windy lashing rain from the south! We're having a wet spring. Rich picked up a couple of copies of the Mac OS X 10.3.4 (Tiger) family pack. We've been upgrading machines around the house. There are some interesting things in Tiger. Spotlight… Continue reading