capturing my attention: the blog

You have reached my original blog. On August 23, 2008, "Capturing my Attention" was retired. Now I'm blogging over here at the more simply-titled blog. Other than a possible glitch in smoothly navigating from page to page during the week of this transition, hopefully you won't really notice any other changes. Anything written between January of 2005 and the "retirement" of this blog is still here, active, and very much a part of my body of rambling posts about the things that caught my attention on any given day. Wherever you readit, enjoy!
Monday
Aug112008

There's more than one way to get a new car!

In February I bought 4 pristine tires for my car. In May I had all its belts replaced. Including The Timing One people are always groaning about. Somewhere along in there - I want to say between the tires and belts but who can say for sure - I got new front brakes. Several weeks ago I got a new battery. Friday when I picked up my 18 year old Toyota from the goodnatured fellas who will fall over from shock if

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Monday
Aug112008

"Well informed" about side-effects

It's probable I'm nervous because it's been years since I tried a new prescription for a medication that treats the symptoms of ADD. And that the last time around, I'd had plenty of advance notice, and had done some online research. A lot of online research. I'd known it was coming: figuring out the best meds for calming my Attention Deficit Mind was a tricky process that took a lot of time. And although

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Saturday
Aug092008

YouTube loves to help me waste time.

Thinking to just look up one tiny little thing on Twitter, before posting something there and getting on with my work, I clicked on one of the profiles I'm "following." Which led me to a discovery of something I didn't know about. Which led me to YouTube to

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