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		<title>It&#8217;s not antisocial, it&#8217;s grammatically correct.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll talk later about my hopeless addiction to my computer Scrabble game, but this just came up and I couldn&#8217;t resist it.
The official Scrabble dictionary defines the word &#8220;EVITE&#8221; as &#8220;to avoid&#8221;.
So when we ignore any evites that come our way, we&#8217;re just obeying the dictates of the English language.  
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		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=3145</link>
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		<title>Aaaahhh!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ain&#8217;t summer grand?

Lavender Grosso.
The bush stands 3 1/2 feet high and in full bloom spreads about 4 1/2 feet wide.  Every single time I walk past there are *at least* 20 bees bumbling about in that bush.
You can smell lavender from 20 or so feet away.  And it&#8217;s been in full bloom since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=3086</link>
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		<title>AIGH!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Open Letter to the Members of Arachnidae spp. who Enjoy My Pesticide Free Gardens
Would you octipodious little idiots kindly get it through your hydraulic little heads that I am not edible?
I appreciate that you like the dark, cool environs of my garage, but really now!
The bugs are MUCH better, much bigger, sweeter, and far [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=3137</link>
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		<title>Reasonable People Too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Y&#8217;all have known me for long enough to know that things like scrotums, castration, and relatively graphic descriptions of other subjects likely to cause consternation in the general public will come up in casual conversation.  I haven&#8217;t the faintest idea why you&#8217;re surprised by my previous post.  
Okay, to the point.
See the reason [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=3123</link>
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		<title>Reasonable People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I&#8217;m going to take this poll but I&#8217;m not going to tell you why.
After the poll results are in I&#8217;ll post the reason.
This is for everyone, but I will especially be interested in the opinions of the XY readers of Uncle Andrew.
Would you expect that a rubber band wrapped tightly enough around a scrotum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=3120</link>
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		<title>Our Glowing Review of Bellevue Roofing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve ranted before, probably ceaselessly, about how I loathed the cedar shake roof that was, until just recently, on our house.
From weathering badly, to growing moss easily, to catching fire with astonishing ease (and yes, I have tried it with the scraps.  For the record, old cedar shakes are GREAT kindling.) that roof has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=3091</link>
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		<title>Shouldn&#8217;t we be able to do something about this?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I first started seeing the woman with the service chihuahua, yes, I did write that right, a service chihuahua I&#8217;ve wondered&#8230;.
See, despite what you may think, anyone can declare just about any animal a &#8220;service animal&#8221; and because of the way the regulations are stated in the Americans with Disabilities Act, just about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=3075</link>
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		<title>Now, That&#8217;s Satire!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like most people, I imagine, I have a morning ritual I go through most weekdays whilst preparing for the day. All the usual stuff, of course: exercise, bathe, coffee, breakfast, coffee, dress, coffee, morning commute—admittedly, a total of 45 steps down a flight of stairs into the basement, but a commute nonetheless—and coffee. From there, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=3044</link>
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		<title>What do you buy at the store?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been a long running thought process for me, mostly based on my concerns about my own diet and where the country is going in terms of food production and consumption.
A few months ago we caught the tail end of Jamie Oliver&#8217;s Food Revolution.  It was a wrap up show about Jamie Oliver&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=3058</link>
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		<title>Orders of Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First order of business:
OMPHALOCOELE: An umbilical hernia.
OMPHALOPHLEBITIS: Inflammation of the umbilical veins.
There&#8217;s just something about the fragment &#8220;OMPH&#8221; that I find amusing.
Second order of business:
(said in a Wicked Witch of The West voice&#8230;.)
POPPIES!



This is the center bed in the front garden.  This spring Susan and I turned it, filled it with compost and chicken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=3036</link>
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		<title>More words I can&#8217;t leave alone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading medical journals is often a crap shoot.  Sometimes what you get is interesting and immediately engaging, sometimes it&#8217;s a bloody bore.
Three words I picked up on a recent troll through a half stack of the Journal of The American Veterinary Medical Association.
(Note, please, that, like a stack, a half stack is a metaphysical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=3015</link>
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		<title>Ready&#8230;.Aim&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FIREWOOD!
Early Tuesday morning, a medium-sized dump truck backed up our driveway and delivered a cord of mixed hardwood. We don&#8217;t typically heat with wood&#8212;though if we have another verdammt middle-of-the-winter power outage we may change our minds about that&#8212;but we do have a spanking new fire-cum-barbecue pit in the back yard, which we intend to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=3023</link>
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		<title>Oh&#8230;&#8230;&#8221;joy&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keyboards really need a sarcasm font.
So The Saga of The Elbow continues.  Plain ol&#8217; tendon pain has progressed, despite truly epic amounts of ibuprofen, to little zingy pains along the dorsum of my left forearm that extend to the tips of my center two fingers.  Sometimes when The Elbow is in a real [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=3010</link>
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		<title>How can I leave this one alone?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my VIN buddies (a colleague with whom I interact and chat online) posted a story this morning about an emergency call that he got over the weekend.
A woman called him, rather out of the blue, she wasn&#8217;t a client but he is one of the few people in his area that does house [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=3006</link>
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		<title>Lew Sends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things have been fairly placid chez us simply because neither of us have had any major work crises.
Work is placid, or at least has been placid, therefore minimal ranting gets done.  Minimal ranting equals boring blog fodder I guess.
I&#8217;ve got the garden mostly planted, tennis elbow bedamned, the only bits that are left are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=2998</link>
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		<title>If Only Every &#8220;Short Man Syndrome&#8221; Moment Ended This Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday afternoon I was scheduled to see Megatron.
Megatron weighs 130 pounds and stands about 3 1/2 feet high at the shoulder.  With his head straight up, Megatron reaches to my shoulder.
Megatron is a BIG dog.
Fortunately Megatron is also a placid, mostly laid back, mostly well mannered dog.
So I&#8217;m in the exam room with Megatron [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=2993</link>
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		<title>The Worser Devils of my Nature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Margaret and I were at our local pet store this weekend buying some feeder mice for the snakes. Being a nice May day, there were quite a few folks out in Ye Olde Burien Towne enjoying the weather, including a medium&#8212;er, sorry, Starbucks, that&#8217;s Grande&#8212;sized horde of children with parents in tow in the pet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=2950</link>
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		<title>Mail Bag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago I got a piece of mail at work from the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services.
No licensed professional likes getting unexpected missives from the state.  DSHS doesn&#8217;t have much clout over veterinarians, so I was more puzzled than concerned, but still a faint sense of unease persisted.
That faint [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=2932</link>
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		<title>Ah fer&#8217; the love of little green apples!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TENNIS ELBOW?!
AGAIN?!?!
So when I went to see the hand specialist in October he said that this sort of thing usually will flare up on and off for a year or more before it calms down completely.  He also said that the cortisone injection he gave me at that point would only last about six [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=2927</link>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m Not on Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone&#8217;s on Facebook, right?
My brother&#8217;s on Facebook, my friends are on Facebook, my father is on Facebook.  Heck, even my in-laws are on Facebook.
I&#8217;m not on Facebook.  I miss out on photos of my great nephew because I&#8217;m not on Facebook.  I miss out on photos of Anastasia dissecting her first frog [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/?p=2899</link>
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