First off, I finally got to see McNally Robinson's new Espresso on-demand book making machine!  It wasn't doing any jobs at the time, but it seems they are targeting the machine at not only producing books that may not be on-hand at the time, but also for doing on-demand printing for local authors.  I don't have anything to really say with words, ( Read more... )

This week-end was the week-end that the family got conscripted to go back to my home town and help my Mom get things ready for winter ( Read more... )

For yes, my skill colour is a rather hot and bothered red, very unlike my normal pallor ( Read more... )

So just before we hopped in the car to sneak out to the lake for the long week-end the doctor from the Pan Am Clinic called. He let me know that indeed the swab of my foot had come back and that I had a staph infection. viridis_ama thought that what I had sounded somewhat like Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome. I'm not a doctor, but that does seem ( Read more... )