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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

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, [...]

Yes, Internet, this is my husband.

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Utilikilt + Grillslinger = my spouse.

Sick.

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

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

Better.

Friday, May 30th, 2008

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 [...]

Trip photos

Monday, May 12th, 2008

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.

into the wild blue yonder

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

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 [...]

stuff

Monday, April 21st, 2008

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, [...]

Pacific Northwest: tell us where to go

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

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?

A grocery shopper’s riddle

Monday, April 14th, 2008

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

Out of town

Friday, April 11th, 2008

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.

A brief observation

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

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.

Fucking DST

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

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 [...]

the joys of marriage

Monday, January 28th, 2008

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 [...]

dispatches from the road

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

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.

Resolutions

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

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 [...]

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The Minority Report hand-waving computer interface is now real. Its users will have the best toned arms in the office.

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The Matrix runs on Windows. Ow. It hurts to laugh that hard.

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Google flu trends — doing something useful with all those searches for “flu symptoms.”

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I’m addicted to the NYTimes maps this morning, especially the county bubble view. Hello, population distribution! It’s fascinating to compare this year to 2004.

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LibriVox — “acoustical liberation of books in the public domain”

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