“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”

- Oscar Wilde
I have always found this quote a bit too appropriate at times, but this seems to be the common state of things for the past week. How is it one can make revisions of a rough draft and get down over 35k in ( Read more... )

I have such an unholy annoyance right now I am either going to fling this piece of tripe I am reading at the wall - unwise, as it's going straight into ye olde 'sell' pile -or vent my spleen on this much-neglected LJ ( Read more... )

At the moment, my backyard looks like the icy tundras of Antarctica - with my knee predicting more snow on the way - although the Beagles seem to enjoy ice (er...paw?) skating. Out front my jacked up neighbor is attempting to work off the excess energy of whatever illegal substance he is currently under the influence of, by furiously whacking WITH ( Read more... )

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In my quest to replace a woefully inadequate tabletop air purifier, I came across a few of these newfangled ionic models on Ebay that I wanted to further look into. But first, there was the matter of whether these contraptions actually work at all, or at least how they stacked up to the ones with hepa filters ( Read more... )