tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-314172272009-02-21T07:11:49.628-08:00WhichWitch?http://www.blogger.com/profile/01091937891893512877noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31417227.post-1157991882126549332006-09-11T09:19:00.000-07:002006-09-11T09:24:42.140-07:00Books are my drugs. Here's what I've snorted, inhaled, swallowed, this summer:<br />(note: Fictionwise has a great collection of classic books for reading on your PDA. I decided to see 1) how many I could find for free; 2) how many I had already read 3) finish the rest. So in between current books are many titles available from gutenberg.com as text or html) If anyone cares, I can add print vs e-book or my opinion, but as always, YMMV.<br /><br /><strong>Biography & Autobiography</strong> <br />Beard, Patricia; After The Ball <br />Shakib, Siba; Samira and Samir <br />Moran, Lindsay ; Blowing My Cover<br />Dickens, Charles; American Notes<br /><br /><strong>Engineering</strong> <br />Petroski, Henry; Small Things Considered<br /><br /><strong>History</strong><br />de Toqueville, Alexis ; Democracy In America<br />Dickens, Charles; A Child's History of England<br />Dumas, Alexandre, Pére; Celebrated Crimes, Complete<br />Jakober, Marie; Only Call Us Faithful<br /><br /><strong>Humor</strong> (Political)<br />Hutchins, Jeremy; Loving the Cheney Within<br /><br /><strong>Fiction</strong> <br />Beagle, Peter S.; Tamsin<br />Baxter, Alissa; Lord Fenmore's Wager<br />Bellairs, John The House With a Clock in Its Walls / The Ghost in the Mirror (Edward Gorey Illustrator)<br />Bradley, Marion Zimmer; Door through Space<br />Brown, Rita Mae; Sour Puss<br />Card, Orson Scott ed; The Dragon Quintet <br />Crane, Laura Dent; The Automobile Girls At Washington <br />Derr-Wille, Sherry; Never a Bridesmaid <br />Dodd, Christina; Almost Like Being in Love<br /> - ; In My Wildest Dreams<br /> - ; Rules of Attraction<br />Finley, Martha; Elsie Dinsmore books 1 - 7 & 9 (I can't find 8 online)<br />Flint, Eric, ed.; Grantville Gazette 5-8<br />Freer, Dave; A Mankind Witch<br />Gatty, Mrs Alfred; Aunt Judy's Tales<br />Grant, Tracy; Beneath A Silent Moon<br />Hammond, Melinda; Fortune's Lady <br />Hilgartner, Beth; A Murder For Her Majesty<br />Huxley, Aldous; Crome Yellow<br />Jacobs, Joseph; Celtic Fairy Tales<br />Maeterlinck, Maurice; The Blue Bird (a play)<br />Matthews, Laura; In My Lady's Chamber <br />Marley, Louise; The Glass Harmonica<br />Myers, Edward & Natchev, Alexi; Forri the Baker <br />Nabb, Magdalen; Some Bitter Taste <br />Parton, James, ed.; Humourous Poetry of the English Language<br />Pratchett, Terry; The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents<br /> - ; A Hat Full of Sky<br />Ringo, John; Princess of Wands<br /> - ; Against the Tide<br /> - ; Emerald Sea<br /> - ; East of the Sun, West of the Moon<br />Swendson, Shanna; Once Upon Stilettos <br />Various; Project Gutenberg's Famous Stories Every Child Should Know<br /><br />It was a <em>good</em> summer!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31417227-115799188212654933?l=whimofsteel.blogspot.com'/></div>WhichWitch?http://www.blogger.com/profile/01091937891893512877noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31417227.post-1155077013158619722006-08-08T15:38:00.000-07:002006-08-08T15:43:33.173-07:00<strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Five meerkats killed after girl, 9, is bitten<br /></span></strong><a href="http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/15202942.htm">http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/15202942.htm</a><br />Public condolences poured into the Minnesota Zoo on Friday, as zoo visitors and staff mourned the deaths of an entire meerkat family.<br />The five meerkats were euthanized Thursday, a day after a 9-year-old girl reached her hand into the exhibit and was bitten.<br />The meerkats — two adults and their three babies born in spring — were vaccinated for rabies, but state health protocol required that they be <strong>killed</strong> and tested<em> because the girl's parents didn't want her to undergo a series of six rabies shots</em>.<br />The meerkats did not have rabies, tests done at the Minnesota Board of Animal Health showed Friday.<br />========<br />Someday this child is going to have to face consequences; and she will NEVER understand why.<br /><br />I just want to shake her parents. When she is 16 and has no control, they will wring their hands and wander why their little angel has changed. Worse yet, when she is 22, and <em><strong>I</strong></em> have to teach her the math of life, they will be mad at me and not themselves.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31417227-115507701315861972?l=whimofsteel.blogspot.com'/></div>WhichWitch?http://www.blogger.com/profile/01091937891893512877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31417227.post-1154361719476367642006-07-31T08:51:00.000-07:002006-07-31T09:01:59.500-07:00Reading this weekends headlines, all I can think of is a Flemish proverb -<br /> "What a man says drunk, he's thought sober"<br />A variation on <em>In Vino, Veritas</em>, true but a slightly different slant.<br /><br />It's DC, it's summer, it's miserable. From July to September, the weather prediction doesn't change much - Hazy, Hot, and Humid; chance of afternoon thunderstorms.<br /><br />Our resident Brit was shocked earlier this year when we offered iced tea. He asked how I would feel if offered iced coffee - I told him "wait 'till August, you'll drink tar if it has ice in it".<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31417227-115436171947636764?l=whimofsteel.blogspot.com'/></div>WhichWitch?http://www.blogger.com/profile/01091937891893512877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31417227.post-1153591303873621722006-07-22T10:57:00.000-07:002006-07-22T11:01:43.873-07:00How do you get .. one very good friend, three children, a large dog in a cage, plus enough luggage for 2 weeks in a medium size car. The car that I mostly live in day to day, so it's also full of junk.<br />They're moving to Germany for two years, and I am sooooo jealous! He's already moved, this trip is to get the kids there and settled before school - my part is to get them to the airport :D<br />Ah well, I can dream of trips to visit!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31417227-115359130387362172?l=whimofsteel.blogspot.com'/></div>WhichWitch?http://www.blogger.com/profile/01091937891893512877noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31417227.post-1153420024032461722006-07-20T11:24:00.000-07:002006-07-20T11:27:04.046-07:00What do I want you to know about me?<br />Navy Brat, AF Vet, Career Geek<br />Books are my drugs<br /><br />that's probably enough for now.<br />talk amongst yourselves.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31417227-115342002403246172?l=whimofsteel.blogspot.com'/></div>WhichWitch?http://www.blogger.com/profile/01091937891893512877noreply@blogger.com0