February is passing so quickly my head hurts ( Read more... )

Work is keeping me extremely busy. The good part is that time goes very fast. The bad part is that I get little else done. By the time I get home tiredness keeps me from being very productive, which is disappointing. On the plus side, I haven't had to travel quite as much as was originally planned for me.

The vacant corner next to my office at 5th ( Read more... )

While reading a book recently I kept encountering a peculiar stumbling block.  The time period in the novel kept slipping on me.  I kept moving events further, much further back in time. And then I would be brought up short realizing that things were happening contemporaneously ( Read more... )

Last night at 1:30 am Pacific (3:30 am Central) I arrived home after an exhausting 21 hour day. My cab driver, after I finally got one -- lines were long and taxis were few -- and I gave an airport worker a ride home which was a bumptious experience. In fact, the whole drive home was an adventure. Fortunately, no accident ensued and I arrived safe ( Read more... )

Recently, in a pleasant little ebook (Stashbuster Knits by Melissa Leapman), the author suggested a different way of organizing one's stash (that collection of yarn knitters accrue, somewhat like under-the-bed accrues dust bunnies).  Her method differs significantly from my method. I had (bless you, Ravelry) organized my yarn on Ravelry (of course ( Read more... )

How has a week gone by already? Is time like this for everyone ( Read more... )

I'm not big on new year resolutions or celebrations. Every day, you can make a choice to do something differently than you have before. A year, a month, a birthday, are arbitrary dates. If they help you, that's great. However, it sometimes seems that a big weight gets put on the specific time that it predetermines failures.  Just look at all the ( Read more... )

1. We have seen Hugo. Mark does a far superior job than I would ever do writing about it, so I recommend you to his blog here. We hope to see it again in 3-D.

2. As subscribers to Book-It, we vamoosed to "Owen Meany's Christmas Pageant" which was ... interesting. Adapted from John Irving's novel, "A Prayer for Owen Meany," the (short) production ( Read more... )

I stumbled upon this article, Art and the Limits of Neuroscience, courtesy of jaylake. The article by Dr. Alva Noe is pretty interesting, taking on as it does the new discipline of neuro-art. Which isn't, at this time, much of a discipline yet. The part of the article that got me thinking was the fact that neuroscience, in studying art, wasn't asking the ( Read more... )

I am thankful for many things. First and always, that my wonderful, funny, smart husband is there every morning when I wake up. Once, I took it for granted. I will never take it for granted again, and every day, it is joy to wake up together and have that gift.Truly, sometimes you don't know what you've got until it's (almost) taken away from you. ( Read more... )