Oh, I title this "customary" but possibly "cursory" would be more accurate. I didn't keep a list of my reading this year so the list to follow is probably both incomplete and inaccurate, but it's the best I can offer. On the bird front, I intend to list the birds that I think were new to me this year but it's possible that a few I have, in fact, ( Read more... )

Because alexfandra is too ill to visit her beloved Montlake Fill herself, I take a few moments to post a list of birds and a half dozen excessively large photos. I took today off work since I was owed a day of comp time (and if you don't take those relatively quickly they have a way of getting lost) and the forecast was for sun. It was, in fact, cold and ( Read more... )

It's late on a school night so this isn't the complete February Bird Report which I know the Imaginary Reader is anxiously awaiting. But today was an exciting day, birdwise, so I'm sharing a few preliminary numbers. (Perhaps unbeknownst to the IR, I've taken to meticulously recording my daily bird sightings in the classic marble-covered lab book, ( Read more... )

Perhaps I should do a couple of posts or perhaps by the time I've copied over my January birds list I'll be tired and wish to lie down. The fact is, dear Imaginary Reader, I am already feeling rather tired. It's been an exhausting stretch, one way or another ( Read more... )

American crows were seen on 29 days of January 2012 ( Read more... )

A hasty list because it took me forever to compile the list. There's got to be a more sensible way...

Green Grows the Garden, Beverly Nichols
The Cat’s Table, by Michael Ondaajte
Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde (re read)
The Prague Cemetery, by Umberto Eco
The Floating Admiral, by Dorothy Sayers et. al. (re-read)
The Little Black Book of Stories, ( Read more... )

My cell phone acting up
Cramps
Buses that don’t wait
Cyclists at lonely bus stops who want to know “what bus are you waiting for?”
Elevation profiles
Snarky editors
“Unleashed”
Cricket
Guilt
Cold feet (literal, not metaphorical)
Condoleeza Rice