For the last several years, ordering seeds has been one of my New Year's Day rituals. The catalogs arrive in December, bright spots scattered throughout the month, and I save them up and go through them on the first morning of January, getting excited about dozens of varieties -- my gesture of faith in the coming summer. In the afternoon, I go ( Read more... )

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1. I just swapped out my old (well, okay, not THAT old) SSD boot drive on the vidding computer for a higher-capacity drive and it was without doubt the least stressful, most hassle-free computer upgrade I have EVER done. Cloning and installation took less than 45 minutes. Good job, Samsung.

2. Doing the swap involved opening up the case for the ( Read more... )

Time for a numbered list!

1. London was awesome -- I am not going to write up shows this time around, but those few of you who are actually interested in my surfeit of theatre can ask me questions and I will answer. Also, I ate really well this trip and walked even more than usual (the weather was perfect for it); my companion and I chose to walk ( Read more... )

What I want to be doing right now:

• gardening
• vidding
• sitting on my couch with a cat on my lap

What I should be doing right now:

• writing 900 words on an important project (which, because it's me, means writing 3,000 words and then trying to find the 900 right words buried in there somewhere)
• writing 2,000 words on a different important project (see above ( Read more... )

I am finally, finally fighting my way out from under a two-month crush of work obligations. I mean, I still have work obligations, but I should start having time for other things again as well. A few days ago I found some time to start weeding my strawberry patch; tomorrow I expect to be able to spend the whole afternoon in the garden. It's an ( Read more... )

This year's vegetable varieties have even more awesome names than usual! Some highlights ( Read more... )

Here's what my garden looks right now (click photos for larger versions):


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Long day, late dinner. The sun was well down by the time I checked the weather -- and there it was, first frost advisory of the season, a few days ahead of schedule ( Read more... )

My garden documentation this year has been fairly haphazard, not least because I got such a late start on my planting; I didn't want to photograph it, I wanted to be out creating it! But
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