When I haven’t posted for a long time, it’s hard to get posting again, because I want to fill in all the blanks, but that would be a post so long that (1) I would never get around to writing it, and (2) nobody would ever bother reading it. So I’m going to try to divide things up thematically. This post is about things.

I have a new camera that I ( Read more... )

(Thanks to everybody who answered my David Paterson question!)

There’s a great podcasting app available for my new phone (an Android Dev Phone, the unlocked version of the T-Mobile G1, about which I could write an awful lot if I had the time and energy), so I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts. Most often, I’m listening to On Point. (It’s ( Read more... )

I’ve seen this in zillions of people’s journals. ( The privilege meme. )

Hi! First of all, thanks to all the sweet people who said sweet things about me in comments on one of my recent entries. It made me feel all warm and happy.

Secondly, three excellent things came in todays (paper) mail:

1. A letter from the company that bought my second mortgage (which was supposed to be a bridge loan but didn’t turn out that way), ( Read more... )