Projects
Finishing up the first-half-of-the-month group of articles today. Then working around the house, my favorite! Yes, really! Well, okay, maybe not always my favorite, but I do look forward to some of the projects. Well, not laundry, which is on the list for today, or cleaning the kitchen, ditto. But some things, like cleaning out […]
Why does it take so long?
Could someone tell me, please, why it takes me ten times as long to do things as it should? Is it that I’m getting older? Is it that my attention is perpetually fractured and I can’t focus? Is it that I’m caught in some kind of freakin’ fissure in the fabric of spacetime? Or is […]
Report
This is a report of all today’s activities. For those of you who were with me in North Carolina (or who have heard me speak of this before), you know that sometimes Rich tends to act like I’ve demanded a full report on what he’s been doing and what has planned. He recites a list […]
Hockey and the Daddle!
First, Mike Modano & Marty Turco. Good on ’em both for finding jobs! Rich and I are big Turco fans, so we’re happy he’ll be playing for Chicago. I think he’s as good as he ever was, and just wasn’t getting something here in Dallas — support from defense, coaching [my guess], something — that […]
Back to real life
I’m back from North Carolina and San Antonio, with no company and even free of the spousal unit for the rest of the week. I’m committed to thirty Superpages articles about my current topic. I also need to finish cleaning the last section of the patio, get everything out of the breakfast room that’s been […]
What I know
Just in case you ever happened to wonder. And so I can, you know, keep track: I know what Avogadro’s number is for (though I’d have to look up the actual number). I know that Ernest Hemingway loved cats, and more than sixty currently live on his estate in Florida. And more than half of […]
Surprise Self Striping Yarn
I’m knitting these socks in Trekking XXL, using a chart successfully for just about the first time ever. Well, successfully except that I saw-then-forgot a note about knitting two to change the starting point for the second repeat of the leg chart, so the bottom part of the leg design isn’t exactly centered on the […]
Especially for Cindy
Not me. One of my best friends from high school. Let me know how it goes! How to Haggle The single most important thing is to be willing to walk away. That gives you all the power in the interaction. And the fact is — and this is sometimes hard to remember, especially for those […]
Clothes
I’m right in the middle of changing out my winter clothes for summer clothes. (Do you hear that, weather? Let’s not do anything I’ll regret!) I have to wander away every so often because I have so many clothes that it takes forever. Does that sound too much like a diva? No, really, it shouldn’t. […]
Tonight
I picked up the new Chet & Bernie Mystery, Thereby Hangs a Tail. If you’re a Cozy lover, or a dog lover, do yourself a favor and read these books. This is only the second in the series, but Rich and I both enjoyed the first one so much we’ve really been looking forward to […]
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