I had an eventful day today ( Read more... )

Friday: Drove to Austin, mostly in the rain. Got settled in at my parents' house. Visited with my sister for a little while, as she was over dropping off her cat for my parents to cat-sit while she's in Europe visiting Filippo's family for the next three weeks -- they left on the 4th. After we got Corwin to bed, Andrew and I headed downtown to ( Read more... )

I'd like to try to sum up the past few days, but not sure how to do so without spending the rest of my awake time this evening doing so. We've spent most of the past week in Austin for our Rice friends' annual New Year's shindig. Essentially what happens is that events are scheduled (or not...some things happen last minute) and folks are notified ( Read more... )

I've emailed a bunch of folks already to ask for address updates, but I'll post here as well in case there are folks I've missed. If your address has changed since last year (or you didn't get a Christmas card last year and you want one this year), please post with your up-to-date mailing address. Comments are screened, so you don't need to worry ( Read more... )

A week ago Friday, we were graced with a visit from gwentevis, one of my college roommates, who was in town doing interviews at Rice on behalf of her employer out in California. Gwen and Carly, another college friend who lives here in Houston, showed up at our house Friday morning, and we (including Andrew, as it was his Friday off) embarked on Corwin's ( Read more... )

We woke up this morning to still no more than a trickle of water coming out of our faucets, so I was disappointed to still be unable to take a shower. This after they said last night that the failed pumping station was back online and thus water pressure should be restored in a matter of hours. This morning they said that most of the city had ( Read more... )

On Friday, Corwin and I went out to Leander to visit my very good friend from high school, sunflowerkwm and her daughters. I remembered my camera this time (unlike when we visited them last time I was in Austin at the end of May), so I have ( lots of pictures for your viewing pleasure. )

( Thursday, with pictures! )

Since it's a slow day at the reference desk today (Sundays often, but not always, are), I figured I'd use the time to catch up on posting some pictures that I've been sitting on for a while. ( These are from the trip to Austin that Corwin and I made back in mid-August. )

Hi everyone!

First off, for anyone who might be worried about Tropical Storm Edouard heading right for the Houston/Galveston area: ( there isn't much to be worried about )