Got very dizzy on Saturday again, with the result that blogging, and even coherency, has not been a major factor in my life for the last few days. However, that didn't stop me from Having Things to Say about Bath Tangle over at Tor.com ( Read more... )

I thought about writing a year end summary, but figured I hadn't even really talked about December yet. So, lessons learned in December ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, I started to notice - let us call it twittering. (Not in the Twitter sense.) I assumed, not thinking much about it, that a couple of the local birds must have taken up residence in some nearby tree, and wanted to make sure that we knew about it, and by we, I mean the greater metropolitan area. Announcements were made morning, ( Read more... )

Haven't been feeling the blogging bug for the past few days for a number of reasons, so, as a filler, some random and not particularly great pictures that have been on my computer for awhile:

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Wildlife spotted today:

One eagle, one hawk, three bright red cardinals (or perhaps one bright red cardinal flying around a lot), one bunny, multiple squirrels, and...three native Florida ostriches.

Maybe not all that native.

(Naturally, was my camera anywhere near me when I was near the ostriches? No.)

So, since my mother is all about birds, we headed to the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge today ( Read more... )

Whoops -- just realized I forgot two pictures in the last post:

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Sunday, chattycatsmeow viciously kidnapped me and took me to Homosassa Springs state park. (For the sake of her own safety, she allowed us to stop at a Starbucks along the way. This is the sort of kidnapping I approve of ( Read more... )

Our kindly friends at the stupid_free and efw communities have alerted me to this, an earnest attempt to alert us to the evil motivations of the airline industry.

In defense of the airline industry, however --

Did I just type that?

Let's rethink that sentence.What this valiant poster has failed to take into consideration, however, is that Canada geese are not ( Read more... )

So, earlier this week I unthinkingly did something dangerous and deeply inconsiderate to one member of this household: I placed wrapped Christmas gifts under our little Christmas tree so it would look more festive ( Read more... )