Archive for March, 2013
Management book rec: Animals Make Us Human, by Temple Grandin
Yes, really. The subtitle is “Creating the Best Life for Animals”. The early chapters, on dogs and cats and horses, will teach you how to handle your pets, though you’ll also learn a bit about motivating your kids and yourself on the way. When she gets to the later chapters on cows and pigs, though, […]
I’m in Philly this week, visiting family. (Just me, Ted still being fairly new in his job.) I’ve concluded a few things: – Playing with a toddler does really count as exercise, at least the way I do it. – Yes, soft pretzels still really are that good. – I’m not the only person in […]
Dartle
All that I know Of a certain star Is, it can throw (Like the angled spar) Now a dart of red, Now a dart of blue Till my friends have said They would fain see, too, My star that dartles the red and the blue! Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs […]
Introducing the newest family members
Oolong and Macchiato: Macchiato is the more outgoing; we put them in our bedroom to start with, and as you can see she’s been exploring a bit. She seems to like water (she was rolling around with my water bottle earlier, too). Oolong just comes out now and then to eat or use the litterbox, […]
a “nonproductive” day
I was feeling a bit off this morning, somehow – my gut hasn’t been feeling right for a few days, and I don’t think the change to Daylight Savings helped – so I lay abed a bit late, then ended up staying at knitting for only a short time and laying down for a little […]
a pretty good birthday weekend after all
Honestly, I wasn’t expecting much from it, what with us not really knowing anyone in the area but each other. But presents from both sets of parents arrived in the mail on Friday; yesterday we went and adopted two young female felines, names still TBD, whom we’ll bring home Wednesday or Thursday night after they’re […]
starting to think about work.
I really would like it if I can find a job where I can work from home, at least part of the time. It’s 10:30 and I’m just sitting down to breakfast; it’s not that I’m lazy, but that I’ve already read email, done one more address change, worked out (2km warmup, 8 sets of […]
cooking
I’ve been enjoying doing the cooking, since I’ve been home. It does get a bit expensive, though, between the huge increase in US food prices during the years we were away, and the fact that we are still stocking up on things. (Oddly, the price increases seem to be only at grocery stores but not […]
oof
Apparently my body really didn’t want to do a 2K erg test today, because not only did the test piece itself feature dry-heaving, but now I have a migraine aura and can’t see out of my left eye. Fortunately, for me the aura doesn’t generally lead to a real full-blown migraine, just a minor ache […]
the toilet exploded!
OK, I’m exaggerating. A little. (This entry is also in the other blog; I’m doing more crossposting than usual, I guess because new home ownership is the sort of thing I want to share in the pubic blog too.) Anyway, back to the toilet. We went down to Rowell (the lake house) last night with […]