Sillybean

Major work project #1: 90% done.
Major work project #2: ... yeah, I should get started on that.

Seekrit project #1: 99% done. Waiting on other people1 and, predictably, a bugfix for IE6.
Seekrit project #2: 80% done.
Seekrit project #3: at best 5% done, but got a jump start this week.

Steph: 100% tired.

1 While I’m waiting on others, [...]

Utilikilt + Grillslinger = my spouse.

Plague? Why do I have a plague? I didn’t even get to go to WisCon!

The lost data was not recovered, but MAMP was persuaded to cough up its database connections, and Time Machine is now ticking merrily along — although, since it has over a month’s worth of stuff to back up, it’s taking a rather long time. If your Time Machine gets stuck near the end of its [...]

Posted every time we stop back at our room. Yeah, all we’ve done so far is eat and sleep. Great vacation, at that. However, we’re now off to do some more touristy things.

The semester from hell being over (FINALLY), we are commencing de-stressing procedures by hopping on a plane to Seattle. Back in a week.

Mail-sorting conversation at our house…

Me, upon finding yet another stack of unopened mail on the dining room table: NOOOOO!
Michael: I found a Playboy offer in mine.
Me: Why don’t I get Playboy offers? All [...]

My sciatic nerve is angry again. I do not like it when it’s angry.

It’s the Week of Birthdays around here. Happy birthday (in order): Mike, Ryan, David, Lisa, Wendy (UPDATE YER BLOG, GIRL), and Sarah. You are all far too damn old, but it’s better than the alternative.

This week on Shadow Unit: the WTF BBQ, [...]

We’re thinking of visiting Portland, Seattle, and/or places in between next month. Where should we go? What should we do?

Possibilities already on my radar:
treehouse hotels
chocolate cafes
Powell’s (*rapturous sigh*)
ETA: and Seattle’s University Bookstore, home of many fine author events

What else?

Does the Cadbury bar taste funny because it was on sale, or were the Cadbury bars on sale because they taste funny?

Flying to South Dakota for a funeral. Cross your fingers that the blizzard moves out before we get there, and also that Denver is not overly backed up.

ETA: someone forgot to cross their fingers.

I’m vaguely dissatisfied with everything I’m reading. This probably means I should be writing instead.

In other news, spring cleaning has taken place. Closets have been cleaned out. Laundry has been accomplished. And now I am sneezy.

I’ve just now noticed that I should have changed the clocks last night.

facepalm

In other news, State of Play ceased to be boring and resumed kicking ass in the next episode, and we got sucked into watching the rest in one sitting. If you can handle six hours’ worth of various British accents, I highly recommend [...]

Michael has the flu. If you don’t hear from me later in the week, send soup.

In other news, our new oven is very, very shiny. More importantly, it also appears to regulate its gas flow better than its predecessor. The requisite test batch of chocolate chip cookies came out tasty — so much so that [...]

STOMACH BUG INTERMITTENT STOP. YOUNGEST COUSIN MARRIED OFF STOP. FAMILY CAT OF TWENTY-TWO YEARS FOUND DECEASED STOP. IN SAN ANTONIO TILL TUESDAY STOP. WRITING OUTLOOK POOR STOP.

I don’t think I made any last year. I knew I wanted to finish a novel draft, which I did. Everything else was kind of fluid.

This year:

Tone down the perfectionism. I don’t have to be the bestest at everything, especially when I’m trying to be two things at once. Finish the current novel draft. Revise the last [...]