The bags are all packed. The house is as clean as it gets. We put the plants back where we found them and hung the cat-scratchable hangings back on the walls. It's so empty and tidy here, but it still feels like a place we live. I guess it will feel as if we're just going on a minibreak when we leave, except we won't come back ( Read more... )

Well, we got most of the way packed last night. We have plenty of WEIGHT available to us, but we're still having trouble with luggage distribution. Basically, we have two bags that are too large and two that are too small, and we're having a devil of a time getting enough heavy stuff into the small ones and light stuff into the big ones so that ( Read more... )

So, Wednesday morning at 0:MiGod, we fly out to Indianapolis.

This has been a weekend filled with visiting and goodbyes. cryptosporidosi is visiting right now with her fiance. They are our most locationally complicated friends at the moment, being that he's Scottish, she's New Mexican, they currently live in Christchurch, New Zealand, and they're not entirely ( Read more... )

We're back!

It was a more silent vacation than I really intended. We ended up having no access to Internet at all for the whole Scotland trip. It was probably good for us :).

It was a good trip, but now I'm tired and recovering. Hopefully more details later.

So, the cats should be in the air presently, headed back to Albuquerque. There, ljedi will be looking after them until we return, with some help from callicrates and willowisp. It's good to have friends.

Excerpt from an email SB sent: The chap from the couriers on the phone said, honest to god, "I'm actually going to miss [Ebon Menace] in a funny sort of way." Wow. He ( Read more... )

So, UK locals on the list, can you give an ignorant foreigner some advice ( Read more... )

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So, as we discussed with American Airlines when we bought our tickets last summer, we called in to set the date for our return. This was the one thing we thought was a slam dunk and already handled. We were wrong ( Read more... )

So, as a follow-up to Studentbane's steak and kidney pie, I was inspired by our trip to Wales to try some Welsh pie. Apparently, the defining ingredients in most Welsh cooking are leeks and bacon. This is a lighter version I found on Allrecipes UK (which irritates me b/c it is not integrated with Allrecipes, and I see no reason why not). I'm ( Read more... )

This weekend, we helped telynor and filceolaire rearrange their house to turn their kitchen/living room into a kitchen/dining room and convert their guest room/office to a guest/living room. This primarily involved moving the sofa and TV from the kitchen to the front room, where it now lives under their spiffy queen-size bed loft, and adding a new dining table with ( Read more... )