Author: LMAshton

Howdy! I'm a beginner artist, hobbyist photographer, kitchen witch, wanderer by nature, and hermit introvert. This is my blog feed. You can find my fediverse posts at https://a.farook.org/Laurie.
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Duct Tape

Yep, it’s a useful thing. I don’t know if I could count the number of times I’ve…

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Another undersea cable going in?

Yep, it’s true. I wondered if it were possible when we saw on the news that, while…

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Another LDS Sri Lankan blogger

Yep. 🙂 It helps that I like Durga anyway – met her when she and her husband…

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Mysteries in the Mountains

I read an article a friend linked to about a place in Arizona, a location where time…

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India’s marathon boy, aged three

A three year old boy in India runs as much as 30 miles a day. He’s in…

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Tug of War

Is a sport??????? And there are teams from India here competing???? Are you kidding me? Fahim laughed…

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Coconut Palms . . .

Are being uprooted along the beach. There were boulders on the beach to prevent erosion, but then…

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Goa?

So. Fahim’s talking to a buddy of his who spent a month in Goa and is trying…

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Cataract Haiku

Eye exam. Glasses, With clip-on sunglasses. Cool. Cataracts? Oh crap!

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Writing Haiku

Plotting, creating, Making characters do stuff, Writing. Much hard work.

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Profanity Haiku

Oh profanity That lame excuse for language That makes you look dumb.

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Elder V. Dallas Merrell and Leadership

I love this man! He and his wife served as CES missionaries in Sri Lanka and went…

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Spider in the toilet?

Uh, yeah. Fahim, as a typical male, leaves the toilet seat up after he urinates. Today, this…

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Electricity outages are . . .

Getting boring. We had another one today. That makes it, what, five days in a row now…

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Remember those monsoons?

It’s on the news – in Sinhalese – that there’s possible flooding scheduled because of all the…

Progress

Today, I wrote the October geek gadget article for Adoh! magazine. I manage, and successfully, I might…

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Bollywood Haiku

Preity Zinta Shahrukh Khan in Veer Zaara Bollywood rocks on!

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World Of Warcraft Haiku

My man has not yet Installed the game of the beast Help him if he does.

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Monsoon Mosquitoes

Monsoon weather here Rain falls like buckets from sky Mosquitoes breed fast.

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Canal to be dug between India and Sri Lanka?

Yes, I’m slow. These news stories are from July and May, and I hear about it today…

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Spiders!

A couple of days ago (yesterday?) I saw a huge spider in the laundry area. As in,…

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Monsoon season again?

It’s been raining lately. Three times today. Hard rains, everything soaked in the first 30 seconds of…

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Power outages

We’ve been having a lot lately. By a lot, I mean 4 last night, 1 this morning,…

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Geek Toys

Are not just for boys! I like ’em too! Okay, not as much as Fahim, it’s true….

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It’s official . . . I’m not a geek.

I’m an . . . Outcast Genius 86 % Nerd, 52% Geek, 73% Dork For The Record:…