I got up this AM and did laundry-- an amazingly small amount, considering that it was all my Pennsic stuff in addition to the pre-Pennsic week's worth. Oddly enough, I didn't wear my heavy cape at all this year, even on the night it got down to 48 degrees. I did use it as one of my blankets, and it is wonderful for that. For keeping warm while ( Read more... )

Wow-- glorious weather, good friends, how can you top it?

I packed everything to harleenquinzell's house Fri and we loaded up foklens's van that night. Well, no, not "everything" despite Max's gibes. I didn't take the bookshelf that helps keep the pavilion so much more organized, nor the table that makes eating so much more pleasant, not to mention a bunch of stuff I ( Read more... )

The cats are all looking seriously unhappy, scurrying around, trying to not be stepped on. Except of course they manage to be directly in front of me half the time ( Read more... )

Wow, it's good to be home. I've had a good night's sleep, too, which helps a lot. Today, maybe a long tub-soak to get out the last of the embedded grime.

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I'm logged on at my brother's house in Akron, Ohio. Nice to be online.... confusing to be here in the middle of Pennsic, though. I had temporal dislocation when I got in the car and drove here ( Read more... )

The kittens are becoming alarmed at all the to-ing and fro-ing. I don't usually move this fast, or this much at once, for that matter. Plus all the carrying stuff out ( Read more... )

I switched cell phone companies this AM. I'm going on Nikulai's recommendation, so I hope he's right! ;> Mainly I wanted to be able to call from anywhere in the US w/o roaming charges, and this plan does that. I mean, I know there will be places where the nearest tower will be someone else's but it doesn't limit me to two states. Even that would ( Read more... )

What a weird night/day. I absolultely could NOT get to sleep last night.... damn good thing I didn't have to get up and haul my discombobulated ass to work this morning. And I know I wasn't just lying there dreaming I was awake (which has happened) because I was reading. As in, the last half of one book and the first half of another. I'd think I ( Read more... )

I got the Laurel's Tourney prize done. Two days... that's almost a speed record for me. Heh. You can see it here. I based it on this illumination from the Alphonso Psalter ( Read more... )

Busy, busy. Livia came over last night and I wanted pineapple upside down cake for dessert. She just happened to have her mother's recipe for it in her daytimer (!) so I decided to try it. My mother's version had brown sugar and butter or something to make the sauce for the bottom, but this was much simpler and thus more to my taste. It used ( Read more... )