Because I have a new great-niece! Riley Grace. My niece Aimee, her mom, is doing well, though she was a week late, so rather anxious to get the baby out into the world. (We were almost afraid she'd go into labor at Thanksgiving dinner ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is my Uncle Walt's funeral and wake, but I can't go because I didn't manage to cram two days of work into one today. That's the nature of my job--when I take time off, I don't have less work, just less time to do it in. :sigh ( Read more... )

Ooh, ow, ouch! I almost ripped off the nail on the big toe of my left foot this afternoon and every step I take HURTS. It's all my own fault, too, so I have no one to blame but myself ( Read more... )

Michael Swanwick has posted a couple of videos of the Gardner Dozois panel at Readercon, moderated by my father-in-law Tom. Enjoy!

I was an absolute baking fiend today. Two batches of muffins--banana walnut and blueberry--and an apple pie, all in three hours. The muffins were mainly for the dessert table at an event at church tonight, although I did reserve four of each kind for the four of us to eat here at home. (I made two dozen total, so I was still taking 16 muffins to ( Read more... )

At least yesterday there was. :D After work I met pennswoods and Rowan, an HP person who was new to me, at the New Deck Tavern for a drink and some yummy spinach artichoke dip, plus some fun HP talk and other topics of interest. Then I zipped downtown to Buca di Beppo for Tom's 75th birthday celebration, attended by his longtime friends Frank and Sue, ( Read more... )

Yesterday my sister Laura posted on Facebook that "her nephew Dan's stepson Greg" had been found, as per this storyI'm not clear how she has a nephew named Dan who isn't also my nephew unless this is through her new husband, Howard, who may have a sibling who is Dan's parent. So she'd have a double connection through marriage--her marriage to ( Read more... )

I received this email from my father-in-law today:

The December issue of Asimov's, containing my novelette "Warfriends", is now ( Read more... )

I had a good chortle earlier when I started reading my new "gym book" (the book I'm only allowed to read while I'm on the recumbant bike at the gym, ostensibly to entice me to go to the gym). The phrase "high-density" was used to describe a computer monitor ( Read more... )

This is what a 2010 high school graduate looks like:


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