Category Archives: Misc.

The Year that was 2013

It hasn’t been a bad year at all for me. Lots of traveling. In January I attended the Winter AAS meeting in Long Beach, CA, and got to hang with a bunch of my friends from grad school. (Also got … Continue reading

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Rhuarc (2000 – 2013)

It’s been a tough holiday for me. My kitty Rhu (Rhuarc, if you want to get technical) became ill a couple of weeks ago. He stopped eating and eventually masses were found in his chest. My parents, to whom I … Continue reading

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Y-ME Walk to Empower

My mom and I have been doing the Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization’s Walk to Empower for the past couple of years. The first two were at Bull Run Regional Park in Centreville, Virginia. This year the walk, which takes … Continue reading

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Note to self…

Never title a post “RSS”.  That was what I had used for the previous post and it screwed up the permalink, making it look for an rss file instead of showing the post.  Dang it!  Changing the title didn’t fix … Continue reading

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Cell phone discount…

Something I didn’t know until a co-worker pointed it out on the office forum: federal employees can get a discount on their personal cell phones. None of us had ever heard of this and she only found out when some … Continue reading

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