You guys know that story? The reason we have April Fool's Day is that it used to be the first day of the New Year. Then the calendar switched, but some people refused to change over, keeping April 1st as their New Year, and everyone else called them fools - and I think giving gifts was a New Year's tradition, so people gave the "fools" prank ( Read more... )

Spent a week in the New York countryside hanging with friends from college. Went outside in the beautiful weather, sat on thick carpet of moss under birch woods, found huge mushrooms, bathed feet in a lake. Had ridiculously deep conversations with every single friend there, now know much more about all of them (my friends are the coolest, ( Read more... )

We're drinking champagne while celebdu plays Katamari Damacy. So far he's opened up a lot of "levels" for us because he already played and won it a long time back, and the skills come back to you. Now we'll be able to play a bunch of stuff even though we aren't too good yet, which will be much more fun ( Read more... )

Okay. Here's the news today.
I have discovered a joyous thing. Monty Python fans, at last the question of unladen swallows has been answered. This is great and made me happy in that geekish kind of way. Clearly this guy is way, way smart and educated in areas of math that frighten me to think about, but I LIKE the way he uses it ( Read more... )

I'm grateful that:
Bevvy-the-Bev-Bev is here
She and koi are baking pies
makani's first turkey came out really tasty ( Read more... )

Today we processed and canned or froze over sixty homegrown tomatoes! ...which took a while. Fortunately we didn't have to heat up the kitchen because my mom has put in a temporary outdoor kitchen in their patio, so we hauled all the stuff over there and cooked up a whole mess of spaghetti sauce and canned tomatoes on the porch. The first major ( Read more... )

So, the week Cassie's going to be here, the temperatures are going to be below 60 F. Not pleased. Come on, Virginia, can't we look good for Cassie? Can't we make her think that going sailing in the tropics is nice, sure, but boy she sure will miss this place ( Read more... )

Leslie came to visit on her spring break, stayed overnight and then left in the morning. We had plenty of time the afternoon before for about a three-hour conversation and then watched an anime and a half, finally turning in at not quite the hideous hour I'd feared ( Read more... )

We got a ceiling fan installed in our bedroom today. *blisses out* Now we can at last retire the fan that has been sitting on Shel's dresser howling like a hell-fly every night for the last two weeks.

celebdu came to visit yesterday and left a little while ago. He apparently likes our house, and we are duly flattered. Having him visit rocked, and ( Read more... )