Yesterday, I was in Portsmouth with Buttercup on our semi-annual visit to obtain a new passport for him. Since I'd been there before it wasn't "easy" to play my 5 New Things game, and I actually wasn't thinking about it at the time, but in retrospect I actually did manage to find 5 things...and that led me to more ( Read more... )

Got back in last night around 6 or 7. We had a lot of fun in Atlanta, and an incredibly *intense* couple of days in the DC area. It's both nice and nightmarish* to be home.

Anyone miss me?

*Because apparently I can't go *anywhere* without estate chaos happening while I'm gone, resulting in a ridiculous number of emails/calls/etc.

Holy God. So we're back from our little "this will be easy" trip to Montreal to drop Buttercup at the airport.

Easy it was so not.

Did you know:

•Vermont has a new no/low salt policy?
•And that northern Vermont just got some kind of unexpected blizzard? (Really. I *did* check weather.com before I left ( Read more... )

We got back in from California Saturday night and spent all of yesterday trying to recover but no dice ( Read more... )

Well. It was a bit National Lampoon's, as Shane has said. But it was a good trip. We got to see his sister. Got to see James. And Sasha. We drove south on Route 1, so Shane got to peer out the window and down the sheer face of a cliff for about 12 hours (the whole ride was about 15). Better him than me, I tell you. He's such a distracted driver we ( Read more... )

I got all the local access #s for my ISP, for while I'm gone. So I can update this sucker ( Read more... )

• Make will ( Read more... )

OMG. I must have five browser windows open, Shane next to me, Shane's mother on my cell phone, all trying to coordinate our trip to CA for 3 weeks from now ( Read more... )