Work tasks have snuck to the top of my time allocation list.  Recording thoughts of life, politics, and even religion have been pushed behind the need to figure out Wordpress blogging customization for a potential client and other important matters. leatherlion's entry on his personality test at least got me sidetracked into my world long enough to get my pop-quiz personality analysis. Kinda fun, and the five-minute Q&A used about all my energy reserve for this time of day.

The US Geological Service earthquake details page includes a link to Google Earth that shows an image of earthquake epicenters. (Requires that Google Earth be on your computer.) Earthquake 4.2! Coming to a back yard near you! Up close and personal, eh?

The bedroom windows rattled briefly as if our neighbor's child was bouncing through their house. Vector and I woke up, and I wondered if their family was leaving early on a car trip.  There was no more noise, though, and the other four of the pack (redozdachs, Syntax, Audit, and Array) slept through it all. Nothing out of place in our house.  Maybe single-storey frame construction buildings really have an advantage. Details on the 4:42 movement from the US Geological Service.

Dr. Maurice R. Barusch, Uncle Maurie, completed his life Saturday evening at his home in Oakland. His sons, Larry and Ron, and wife Barbara were with him. He and Aunt Phyllis were life-long fighters for equality and improvement of their community.  Uncle Maurie was a charter member of the Richmond (now West Contra Costa County) Unified School District.  He was president of the board as it tried to integrate the schools, and for a while he had to have a police escort to their public meetings. Maurie was redozdachs's mother's brother.  I like to think that my addition to the family helped [...]

 Tagged by redsquaredInstructions: Each player starts with 7 random habits/facts about themselves. People who are tagged need to write on their own blog about their seven things, as well as these rules. At the end of your blog, you need to choose 7 people to get tagged & list their names. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them that they have been tagged. 1. My most exciting work moment was spent in a faux doorway while the windows were breaking out, light fixtures were dropping from the ceiling in the hallway, and the double-high, double-wide filing cabinet fell over [...]

Fighting with spam, battling telephone companies, and doing the routine daily maintenance easily becomes the focus of life and blog material. I forget how special our San Francisco community is.  It’s devilishly easy to turn maneuvering through a too crowded grocery store into an Issue that dominates the day.  Or, MUNI’s lack of service can seem most important. Fortunately, a woman I have met just once sent me a link to the YouTube trailer she’s posted about the documentary she’s making about two gay men adopting five children. Yeah, one of the men is the minister of my church who [...]

The story of the leak of the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times is famous, but how they got published as a book, with Mike Gravel's face on the jacket, reads like a John Grisham novel. I heard a radio report Monday that Gravel is the first major-party (but not "major" himself) Presidential candidate to be in the SF Pride Parade. I was one of the few people who recognized his name when he passed by, and I only remembered that I thought he was heroic but couldn't remember for what! Looking up stories on him this week I [...]

Hollis and Mary Pat's Moki is offering SNYP's (5-cents a snip) to his fertile feline friends in Jackson County.  It doesn't sound like something I want to be the poster boy for, but Moki doesn't have any issues with the program!