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My schedule has gotten wonked around a lot; spent the majority of time when not work or medical busy exhausted and sleeping. This means available time for house paperwork has sludges into the moral equivalent of ‘zzzzzz‘, ‘wha‘ and ‘bzzzooorrk‘. Tonight I’m trying to hack at it and see what I ( Read more... )

DRESS AND MAKEUP:

Part of what people do in any form of skating is to draw attention to themselves and their actions on the rink. This usually requires careful attention to what they’re wearing - hair, makeup and costuming.

Makeup - well, when I was an actor in high school, it used to bother me a good deal to have it on for the dress rehearsals and ( Read more... )

Is it my imagination, but have hard drive prices doubled?  I was looking for a new one for Susan (her graphics take up a lot of space) - say, a 1 TB internal SATA - and the prices were around US $65 - now, they’re twice that and more! What happened?

Since I’m now the designated Doer of Laundry, I’m trying to deal with a backlog of stuff; I think I have everything downstairs and sorted out, it’s just a matter of going through huge amounts of stuff - and the interruptions in the sequence.  Mere wants this smaller bunch done right away for her first day of school (tomorrow, for the 7th grade), ( Read more... )

• Getting rid of a miserable headache that has been plaguing me this morning.  Feel foggy, tired, draggy and aching. And then I look at the below:

• Cleaning up my office floor
• lunch with the kids at 11:30 at Chama Gaucha (Meredith Grace’s favorite place to eat - but expensive enough we only hit it for very special occasions.)
• kids off with Meredith Grace ( Read more... )

Hot out today; still have 5+ hours to work on basement (laundry room and library) till we have to leave for picking up Meredith Ellen from the airport.  Twin #1 was too excited to crash last night; a large lead ingot might have been useful, or chloroform, to get her to go the frint to sleep!

Went to bank, farmer’s market, and grocery store this ( Read more... )

Coming back from the Norovirus or whatever it was that had me screwed up for a big chunk of last week; staying away from anything greasy (lots of butter, say) seems to have kept the worst explosions at bay, and my appetite came back…still had stomach cramps at the dangdest times.  I think that’s past, but energy-wise, I’m still running on low power ( Read more... )

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Big site for museum reproductions also does sculpture items like this item from Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights.  I guarantee it’s like nothing you ever gave out as a present before to your third-grade teacher!

No, this isn’t an advertisement as such.  Both the US and UK versions of Amazon are running DVD sales, and I’m listing out my ooh-that-would-be-interesting list for my purposes (and your edification, in case you have similar interests).

Note that I have multi-region / NTSC and PAL reading DVD players in the house, and that the UK PAL stuff won’t be ( Read more... )