I stumbled across Kate DiCamillo's website today. I was procrastinating a task that is boring and irritating, and so I was quick-reading bits and pieces of blogs instead, and one blog pointed me to another blog, and so on. But this one made me stop. I was pointed to the November entry in the journal. It is a journal really, more than a blog. One ( Read more... )

Appropos of nothing in particular, I thought I'd send y'all to watch this little heartwarming video from the BBC. Plus, I find it out-of-proportion hilarious that this happened in Spokane, but I found it on the BBC news website.

Man Saves Ducklings! Hooray!

Enjoy for a little dose of daily fuzzy.

Things I never knew I never knew -

I was just reading an author's blog (Patricia Briggs, www.hurog.com) because, well, I needed to reanimate my brain from the mush it was becoming from all the transcribing. And I learned that prior to the industrial revolution, there was insufficient sulfur in the air to tarnish silver. Huh. So all those ancient ( Read more... )