Just as I was ready to press SEND, however, I noticed two things--the filename of the book was still the unimpressive working filename it had all along, not its title, and the header line had the even more minimal working name of the whole thing: K-III.   So, sometime around 7 am, another bit of revision produced a filename consonant with the title ( Read more... )

It's being Monday. It's being the Monday before Thanksgiving. It's being the Monday before Thanksgiving with the prospect of losing the afternoon and evening (normally used for T-day prep) to music--a much pleasanter alternative, but then the work's still to do. The small amount of cleanup I did yesterday reinforced my depression rather than ( Read more... )

Unprintable, but a word.

There are not enough closets.  There are not enough bookshelves.  Closets and bookshelves are necessarily related.

It is NOT that we have too many clothes.  No, it is not enough closets for clothes that a) have grown steadily bigger over the last thirty years and b) are required to do too many things (in my case, anyway.)   I ( Read more... )

The kitchen sink faucet had taken to dripping when shut off.  It's one of those wand-type things--you lift and push right for cold water, lift and push left for hot, down and center for off.   Only it dripped.  It didn't drip ten or fifteen or howeverrmany years ago it was we last had it worked on, but it dripped now.  If you were very lucky, you ( Read more... )

Cellphones don't like to be laundered.

Two more sacks went out (these are 50 pound horsefeed sacks, because they'll hold heavy things, like magazines, journals, notebooks, without tearing.  It's a way of recycling horsefeed sacks, too...)

It is now possible to reach one of the closet doors.  For the weekend goal, I'm torn between accessing both closet doors (which would make it easier to ( Read more... )

Warning #1. I am not a good housekeeper.

Warning #2.  Do not tell me how to be a better one.  As a friend said his grandfather told him, when he came home from college ready to teach the old man how to run the ranch better, "Son,  I already know how to ranch better than I can..."   And I already know how to keep house better than I do.

That being ( Read more... )