How come no one ever told me about this? Six TRILLION miles to a light year? So the North Star (300 light years) is so far away that the calculator on my Mac needed to insert letters into the final number (1.7597088e+15) of miles? Crikey. That’s really freaking big. I [...]
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We’re having a heatwave. I tropical heatwave. And it really is a tropical heatwave - what with the humidity being all high and stuff. It was warm enough today that the first watermelon salad of the season has been eaten. Yum! Ribs were BBQed, as was corn and a loaf [...]
I love my son more than I could ever hope to even begin to express. I felt a strong overwhelming sense of something for him from the day I found out I was pregnant and all the doctors were touching my shoulder and telling me they were sorry and we could try again in [...]
Who needs a blogroll when you have an RSS reader? And why have I been avoiding a real reader for so long? There is only so much you can do with LiveJournal’s syndication feeds. And we’ve got family slaving away to make sure I love my reader. And I do love [...]