Archive for January, 2008
trip planning
What a great story. Maybe I’ll buy a copy in the US – I can leave it with my uncle and tell him the story. And maybe I’ll steal one of the banners from that page for his blog: “Me? I’m surviving cancer. What’s up with you?” Incidentally, since someone asked how he was, I [...]
in memoriam; in anticipation
As always around this time, I want to note that it’s NASA’s saddest week. Yesterday was the 41st anniversary of the Apollo 1 launchpad fire. Today is the 21st anniversary of the Challenger explosion. Friday is the fifth anniversary of the Columbia disaster. Requiescat in pace: Grissom, Chafee, White, Scobee, McNair, Smith, Onizuka, Resnik, Jarvis, [...]
playing hookey
Screw it. I am playing hookey from my work party. It was raining hard at 6AM and the whole thing sounded unpleasant in the rain. (Which seems to have stopped. Oh well.) Alternate plans: start a pot of chili, if I have all the ingredients. (I think I do – chili is flexible.) Wind a [...]
a way in
Score one for modesty. A colleague just complimented my necklace, asking if I’d bought it here. She was very impressed when I told he I’d made it, and asked where I got the beads. I didn’t tell her I made the sweater I’m wearing too! I really wish I didn’t have to go to a [...]
nearly had to use a wheelbarrow
I finally got a bank account today. For some odd reasons of their own, Finance picked today to hand over our past two month’s salaries. In cash. The ways of the Corporation are passing strange. Also, the largest bill here is about equivalent to about $31 US. I practically needed a wheelbarrow. (Not really. But [...]
come home, Snoopy
I did get to the mall last night, and bought myself a stuffed Snoopy. I was originally hoping for a lifelike cat, or maybe one made to look like a wild animal, a wolf or a panther or something. When I went up to the toy floor, though (this mall has specific foci on each [...]
a matter of character
If today’s traffic is less hellish than yesterday, I think I will go to the local mall tonight, pick up dinner and see if I can find: a stuffed cat (or other animal that looks like an animal rather than being, say, pink); shrimp without the heads on in the grocery store on the bottom [...]
life lessons from the comic pages
The Sunday comics were good this week. First, there’s a perfect illustration of my definition of marriage in 9 Chickweed Place. As far as I’m concerned, Edda and Amos already are married; any ceremony they choose to have is gravy. (Given who’s speaking, I’m fairly sure they will choose to have one eventually. But I [...]
Look, Ma, no hairpins!
Rudder’s gone and I was a bit bored, so fooling around with my hair. It’s barely to bra-strap length if I pull it straight, just a few inches below my shoulders with all the curls in this humidity, and it’s very fine; when I make a bun it’s a pathetic little thing. Anyhow, I don’t [...]
my predictions for Naomi Novik’s next Temeraire book
I just finished Empire of Ivory yesterday, and I’m trying to guess how she can possibly get Lawrence and Temeraire out of this predicament. There will be spoilers for EoI, so here’s a cut for courtesy. (Oops, sorry, cut fixed now. Not a great idea to put an LJcut in WordPress!)