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In Houston, it’s supposed to be 28 deg F tonight, 23 Thursday night, 23 Friday night, and 24 Saturday night. Source: AccuWeather.

Take care of yourself and your animals!

Today is the birthday of Rudyard Kipling, the English writer and poet.

On Answers.com, they say:

Rudyard Kipling is the author of The Jungle Book and other British-flavored tales of the Indian subcontinent. Kipling was born in India to British parents, but spent much of his childhood at school in England before returning to India in his teens. His collection Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) was full of colorful, dusty, sing-song poems told from the point of view of the common British soldier, including the popular poem “Gunga Din.” The Jungle Book (1894) was a collection of fictional stories about the wilds of India, many of them about Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves. It was followed by The Second Jungle Book in 1895 and was the basis for the popular 1967 Disney animated film. … Among his most popular poems are If (“IF you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you…”), Mandalay (“… An’ the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ‘crost the Bay!”). His 1897 book Captains Courageous [made into a film featuring Spencer Tracy] was set among the fishing fleets of New England, and Kim (1901) in the Himalayas. Just So Stories (1902) was a collection of whimsical African tales, including “How the Leopard Got His Spots” and “The Elephant’s Child.”

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A prior blog post contains the poem “If,” and another contains a quote from one of Kipling’s poems.

While this title (and blog changes) might seem very Hericlitean, I am still following the lead of Parmenides. Well, figuratively speaking. Actually, I’m more in line with Aristotle‘s solutions to the problem of being and becoming: both change and permanence exist; change cannot occur without an abiding thing that undergoes the change.

Playing with the blog a little — finally; after all this time — I see how to get the time set right. It had appeared to be some fixed “universal” time that couldn’t be changed; finally getting some time to look into the time settings, I found that the time could be adjusted for local time. Thank goodness. The time had been set five hours ahead. So when the blog says, on posts before today, that I posted something at 10:48 PM…it really happened at 5:48 PM, local time!

And I obviously changed the format, too. I like the way the “categories” and “link categories” are now set up on the right, and I like that the posts go almost all the way across the screen, instead of only a third of the way. And I think this format/template looks better. But I don’t care for the color at the top, nor the light-colored titles for the “categories” and the “link categories” on the side. What do you think?

I made some changes to my Website, too — more in matters of substance and organization than in matters of formatting.

Diana said on TAFFIE-ANNOUNCE:

This is a great Learning opportunity…we have gone the past few years and learn allot and get to dig for fossils and artifacts. You even get to bag, analyze and caterogize what you find. Wear a hat and sunscreen it gets hot out there! contact info in below, all I know is what is posted here. Just wanted to share!

Come dig with us!     Rancho de las Cabras     Floresville, Texas

It’s FREE!!!!

Join archaeologists from the UTSA Center for Archaeological Research and the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park at this 18th century Spanish Mission Ranch just outside San Antonio

When:

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