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Amazon is a tease

Posted on May 24, 2011 by dichroic

I just got an email receipt from Amazon for Welcome to Bordertown, which I’d preordered some tie ago. So of course I opened the Kindle app on my iPhone to see if I could download it. It wasn’t there. 🙁 … Continue reading →

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cooking and charity (unrelated topics)

Posted on May 23, 2011 by dichroic

I don’t think I slept well enough last night (maybe because Ted left for Taiwan yesterday). I can tell because I just started to write an entry about our upcoming travel plans and had it mostly done before I remembered … Continue reading →

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pretty good so far

Posted on May 21, 2011 by dichroic

Except for Ted still being sick (and having to leave tomorrow for Taiwan), I’m having a good day. Iust booked our tickets for the Paris Airshow … the weekend after we go to Budapest. This is going to be exhausting; … Continue reading →

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Bear sighting (well, hearing)

Posted on May 18, 2011 by dichroic

Well, that was bizarre. I knew Matociquala likes Criminal Minds; I didn’t realize the show likes her in return. (They quoted her during a show intro. Apparently everyone but me already knew about this, as a quick Google reveals. Then … Continue reading →

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jambalaya, crawfish pie, and regatta…

Posted on May 17, 2011 by dichroic

Thursday night I got a call from a local rower: could I cox his quad in a race on Sunday? Apparently they were desperate, because all of the people who usually do it were already scheduled to cox or row … Continue reading →

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other stuff

Posted on May 13, 2011 by dichroic

In a separate post because I wanted to keep the book-publishing discussion as its own thing. Knitting: I should finish the current project this weekend, which is good because I’m especially eager to see what happens when I block it. … Continue reading →

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A publishing dilemma (for the reader)

Posted on May 13, 2011 by dichroic

Cat Valente’s The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making is now out (Here’s her talking about it, with links to a few places it’s for sale. It’s a wonderful book; I’ve read it and I … Continue reading →

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Once Upon a Niebling (a bedtime story for someone who has not yet woken up)

Posted on May 12, 2011 by dichroic

Once Upon a Time (which is when all the best things happened, a baby was born to a Boy and Girl. (And if the Boy and Girl were secretly a King and Queen when they closed their doors and no … Continue reading →

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send in the dwarves … don’t bother, they’re here

Posted on May 9, 2011 by dichroic

I’m getting really tired of being on the casualty list. First there were allergies for a week or so in February. Then I was better for a week, then I got the Cough that Wouldn’t Die. I was finally at … Continue reading →

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time management (also injury management)

Posted on May 5, 2011 by dichroic

It is 9:04 and my husband just walked in. When he called me at 6, after the ostensible end of his workshop, he said he’d be home by 7. ………It was a project planning workshop, for our new product. You … Continue reading →

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