As anyone whose perused the book portion of my website has noticed, I’m a big fan of storytelling. I love a well-written book, where the story pulls me and it’s nearly impossible for me to put the book down. (Okay, I like the stories, although not the consequences of staying up too late reading.) I [...]
I tend to mull over touchy subjects for awhile, before I write about them. I didn’t used to do this, but when I started writing here five years ago, I think Erin was the only person reading, so it didn’t much matter what I said.
But now I must consider that what I write may well [...]
As previously mentioned, between episodes of Babylon 5 we’re watching with my grandmother, I’ve been reading a lot. Some recent recommendations:
Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher, where I finally get to stop being so annoyed with Harry Dresden.
Unshapely Things by Mark del Franco, which is an excellent urban fantasy that isn’t cluttered by with boinking.
I had [...]
For a variety of reasons, mostly to do with the fact that we have new furniture, Kit (the small, evil, secondary cat )was sent to get declawed this week. We tried the kitty nail covers, we tried double sided tape… nothing.
So before she destroyed the new furniture, we got her declawed. She came through fine–better [...]
A toy black leopard left lying in a footpath sparked panic in a Chinese city.
(via my brother)
So what have I made with my time off?
Apple pie
Bittersweet brownies
Chocolate biscotti
So I’m feeling better than I did last week, but I could still stand a little more relaxation.
Because you can never have too many chocolate baked goods.
I set down the book I’d finished and was thinking about the review I was write when I suddenly woke up and realized that it was 3:30. “Oh man,” I thought, “I just wasted the afternoon napping.”
Guess maybe I’m not really clear about the idea of taking time off from work to relax.
It’s hard to believe that it’s already 21 April and this is the first time I’ve gone out to look at my plants and flowers, but it’s true. This is the first weekend that we were home that was nice weather (the previous nice weekend was when we were in Cincinnati, which was probably more [...]
deus ex machina \DAY-us-eks-MAH-kih-nuh\ noun
: a person or thing (as in fiction or drama) that appears or is introduced suddenly and unexpectedly and provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty
The New Latin term “deus ex machina” is a translation of a Greek phrase and means [...]
Is it just me, or does the teen on the cover of the Garth Nix “Keys to the Kingdom” series look eerily like a younger Neil Gaiman?
(click through to find a larger image on the Amazon website.)
See also Mister Monday, Grim Tuesday, Drowned Wednesday, and Lady Friday
“Let’s sit down and discuss finances.”
In case you haven’t yet seen this:
Go to Google.com
Click on Maps.
Click on get Directions.
From New York, New York
To Paris,France.
Make sure to read line # 23.
All things considered, I really don’t have much to say about the selection of WVU’s new president other than between Michael Garrison‘s selection, and the selection of Bob Huggins as the new basketball coach, I think it’s pretty obvious what WVU’s priorities are.
Ready or not, my Grandmother is back, and it’s really for real now.
Her house is sold; there’s no going back.
It’s strange. The things that I expected to be difficult have been relatively painless, while the things I never considered have been the most frustrating. (Speaker phone conversations between individuals who are hard of hearing but [...]
Me:”Hey, you dressed up for something or just need to do laundry?”
Him: “Laundry.”
I’m pretty sure it’s a good measure of what complete and total geeks Michael and I are that when watching TV shows on DVD, were are likely to call out things like, “Hey! It’s Admiral Leyton! or “Wasn’t she one of the Ziyals?
That said, we’re really enjoying Season One of Six Feet Under. Though I’m [...]
Thanks to Michael, at the top, right corner of the page you’ll now see random quotations. Unless of course your browser is too narrow, in which case the quotes will be between the header image and the first post. I’ll check some different computers and see how annoying that is.
And like the rest of [...]
And now for something completely different.
I’ve actually had a hard time finding a book to keep my interest recently.
My current bed time books are Vellum: The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan, Labyrinth by Kate Mosse, and The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history by John M. Barry. All [...]
Back to another of my favorite subjects: The way that the Bush administration is caring for soldiers and veterans.
There are two excellent pieces out right now about how the care that our soldiers and veterans are receiving.
The Washington Post has an excellent article on traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the increasing number of solders who [...]
Okay, my day job is software support, so I know how difficult the job can be.
But.
Our DSL has been giving us problems. It’s intermittently up and down. Although this could be due to a problem in the line somewhere, chances are, the DSL modem is going bad.
But that didn’t seem to occur to any of [...]
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