Quote from a nytimes.com review of the book The Subversive Editor:

Saller herself - the Miss Manners of editing - acknowledges she has these tendencies. She once told her son she had to keep editing because she couldn’t think of another job to which she was so well suited. His response: "Maybe you could be a terrorist."

Hee.

1. The power is back! (Yes, it went out this morning for a few hours.)
2. bibliohippo and I worked a jigsaw puzzle, got very silly, laughed a lot.
3. The power is back!

Tired now. G'night.

Despite having flickered several times last night and today, the power is still on. And I am very happy, but too tired to think of anything else. G'night.

ETA: Clean sheets! I love clean sheets. :D

I can haz kitteh iconz!!! ::points::

Also, xBIL and IBW made it through the snow to deliver Diet Coke, milk, my presents for Toolboy and Pi Girl, and the mail, which included lovely cards from kalypso_v and sallymn. Thankee! They also dropped off bibliohippo, so that I have someone to torment while snowbound because being snowbound is always better with a playmate. And ( Read more... )

I now have a present, or at least a present idea, for everybody on my gift list. Also, IBW called to say that she and xBIL had found and bought my gift for Toolboy and Pi Girl. So now I'm happy, because if things can't get delivered in the snow, I can at least print out pictures of the gifts and say "this will be here when the snow melts ( Read more... )

For eight days in a row, tell something that made you happy that day.

Thursday's happiness: Grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup for supper. Yum!

Snagging this meme from lonemagpie and fenchurche: For eight days in a row, tell something that made you happy that day ( Read more... )

You know, if it's true that the geek who dies with the coolest toys wins, I may just have to cash in on Wednesday, when my Epson Artisan 800 is due to arrive ( Read more... )

A pencil sketch; the photo has been color-corrected. I'm going to assume that you can figure out what I was watching on television at the time.

( Alton Brown has eaten my brain... )

And a G from kerravonsen:

( Ten great G's )