Archives week 32 of 2006
Aug. 7, 2006 - Aug. 13, 2006
Grams packs the house one last time (Thank you all...)
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Vindaloo.
Grams funeral was very well attended, lots of friends and family. She was a tiny, lovable lady and she will be missed dearly. St Hilda's (her retirement village) sent a whole van full of her friends over for the funeral. Neat fact I was reminded of today: Soni lives just a few doors down from ...
First day with the little puppy (Alone, at least...)
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Rose's little puppy (Caillou, pronounced Kayu) was alone in his new cage when I got home today. I took him out, played with him, fed him some kibble by hand (he thinks it's a treat), and then Rosey got home and told me he hadn't been outside in hours... so that's what all the hyper-ness ...
Wild Cowlicks
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I stroked her hair just yesterday
As she always pretended to hate
Smoothing down wild cowlicks
As I told her of the passing week
About our new dog arriving
With my little sister returning
I don't know if she heard
Through the drugs and dreams
But at least I stroked her hair
Sharing Her
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Vindaloo.
I tried to share her
Cajoling friends along
She charmed them to a one
With easy smiles she won them
With open heart she took them
With a hug she set them free
She Glowed
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Vindaloo.
He says
She was glowing
And I cry
She was glowing
To share that
She was glowing
Her Lesson
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Give thanks to those
Who help you
When you are young
Because when you are old
And realise
How precious they were
They will be gone
So she told me
Time and again
Remembering her uncle
Taking in an orphan
The lady who raised her
Along with her daughters
Kindly shopkeepers
Giving her sweets
Yet ...
The Step of Helen
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It's been three years
Since she told me
She was prepared to go
Though she didn't figure
There was anything beyond
She was finished with this world
Satisfied she'd done her duty
Proud of her far-off gifted son
Glad of her charming daughter
Happy with what she'd begun
Yet we imposed upon her to pause ...
Procrastination pays (Apparently, with accounting software...)
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Knight Errant.
As some of you may recall, GNUCash went a bit nuts a few weeks ago and stopped being able to calculate overall totals or produce printable invoices. Last week's invoice was long enough that I just didn't want to hand-produce it, so I decided to try the 2.0.0 release (marked unstable (~amd64) on Gentoo).
There ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.