So, I broke a toe again last week. :( The second in this rental house, and once again by wish-boning the toes on my right foot ( Read more... )

Stupid heat! We have more than a week ahead of us with temperatures forecast for the high 90s or 100-plus. There might be a brief respite tomorrow of ONLY 96o, but OTOH, I see that the projected temperature a week from now is 107!!! Gads, I hate this climate. :(

It is so hard to bike outside when it's this hot-namely, to be up early enough to get ( Read more... )

Just a reminder, today is the last day to read and vote for this week's LJ Idol entries! My story is here (and almost sure to make you smile), and there's a link to my partner's entry and to the poll to vote for those stories and any others you like! I have just 3 more to read myself, and there's a lot of great entertainment there. \o ( Read more... )

Because while I don't really like puns, I apparently think that math/coding humor is the Bomb...

Technically, it feels as if that should be "werewoof" above, from the song, "Werewooves of London." I don't know why people have such a hard time saying wolf or wolves. What is that all about ( Read more... )

I've been persistently revisited by the same song for weeks now, and I'm mystified as to why it's such an earworm ( Read more... )

This is actually for last weekend, even though the new one is nearly here...

The big news was being voted Co-Winner of LJ Idol for the Literary Prize Fight mini-season. It still hardly seems real. Sonreir and I are joining a terrifically talented and humbling group of people who have won past rounds, and I'm in awe of all of them. :O ( Read more... )

Despite ambitions for last weekend, involving more Xmas shopping and Lego verification and possibly putting up some Xmas lights, I actually... wrote my Idol entry, did SOME Lego work, did minor Xmas shopping, and tried to cram alllll the leaves into containers before Sunday's rain (every freakin' weekend goes like this ( Read more... )

I'm woefully behind on reading my f-list and posting my own entries. It's been kind of overwhelming since HalfshellHusband broke his wrist, with more to do around the house ( Read more... )

I saw a car yesterday with a decal across its rear window, made up of flowers, curlicues, and a dragonfly adorning the word Sassenach Now, I realize that word means "English person" in Scottish Gaelic, but there are a lot of pejorative connotations associated with it-as with the Irish Gaelic version of it, and the Welsh version (saesneg). That's ( Read more... )

You may remember my daughter's crustacean phobia. We ran across a photo from a play in the San Francisco Chronical over the weekend, and while technically not a crustacean, creepy enough. She'd gone to the beach the day before, so my husband sent it to her in an email with "DID YOU ENJOY THE BEACH????!!!!???" as the subject line:


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