I did it!  I posted all the days!  I win the internet ( Read more... )

Didn't get half of what I wanted to accomplish done today. Barely got any of it started.  Apathy is a cruel mistress.
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Someone asked if I will do the annual Holiday Fic of the Day over at Haven.  Um...I suppose.  Yes?  No?  Bueller ( Read more... )

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OMG! Today was so DULL! SO DULL! DULL DULL DULL!
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Let's see: what have I missed?

What is the most controversial thing you've ever written on your blog?

I think it was suggesting Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush was not the best song ever.

What compelled you to write it?They played it on BBC4 and it became obvious ( Read more... )

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Happy Thanksgiving, the Americans!  Hope you've all had a good day.
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Chocolate Swiss Meringues, as discussed in yesterday's post?  Delicious. And gone.
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What could possibly go wrong???

A frozen woolly mammoth found with a pool of liquid blood last year in Siberia has ( Read more... )

I made Chocolate Swiss Meringues today.  (Not to be confused with Swiss chocolate meringues, which are something else altogether.  Probably) I found the recipe in a copy of Family Circle from 1987 (and I don't see it on-line anywhere - are there really things that are not on-line?  How is that even a thing?)  I'd never made Swiss meringue before ( Read more... )

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One month.
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Today's topic:

You are given unlimited funds and a fabulous team of programmers and told to create your own social networking platform. Tell us all about your ideal, fictional social media site.Well, okay.  Mostly I don't get social media.  I mean, does a newsgroup from ye olde dayes count?  Or ( Read more... )

I was at the thrift store, and there was a typewriter. It was smallish, portable, and orange and cream, so probably from the early to mid seventies, possibly earlier.  It was also Russian.  Well, okay, it was made in Yugoslavia (remember Yugoslavia? Second only to Czechoslovakia in the "Coolly named place that isn't there anymore" contest) but the ( Read more... )

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It was warm and foggy today. 12C! Crazy weather.
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Did nothing exciting today. Nothing.
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Do you like chocolate?  This recipe  might suit:


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I ended up getting home much later than expected, so this is going to be brief.

Exactly this brief, in fact.

See you later today.

So there I was, driving along, minding my own business, listening to the radio (hmmm...how can I describe 'radio' to you young people?  TV without pictures?  Ipod without making anyone at Apple rich?  Hmmm...that is a puzzler)  when I hear A Christmas Song!!!!  And not a great one either.  Driving Home for Christmas by Chris Rea, (No, I won't link ( Read more... )