I am profoundly grateful to Stephen Fry for his wonderful narration for Pocoyo. That is all.

Well, it’s not all, but it was important to say. :)

I assume you all know by now that it *was* Richard III buried in the Leicester car park, which I think is enormously awesome. And also, as has been clear from Twitter all day, a great source of jokes:

“A ( Read more... )

Ted, whose employer is a company that contracts tech support for Microsoft, just met the global head of customer experience for Microsoft, who is from Kenai and graduated the year before I did.

Cue the song. :)

(x-posted from the essential kit)

The other day while I was out working, I saw a Chinese family with an extremely, extremely cute 7 month old boy. His daddy was wearing a flat cap, and the baby was wearing a matching flat cap, and he was SO ADORABLE he made me want to go home and hug my own baby. I related this to Ted, who said, “Was he as cute as Young Indiana?” I said I thought ( Read more... )

Michelle finished up her blog promotion commentary with one last post, in which she hits on the vital question of characterization. Go read it: it’s interesting. Possibly fascinating, if you’re like me. :)

Kinds of bread I have made today: corn, white, banana.

Years ago I bought some lovely creamy nubbly fabric for a long coat. Mom and I started ( Read more... )

We leapt out of bed this morning (for the value of ‘leapt’ which applies to parents of a four month old, which is to say, we staggered bleary-eyed and weary out of bed) and went to see “The A-Team”, which I thought was entirely enjoyable. Importantly, unlike in “Knight and Day”, I didn’t think, “Wow, is that a body double?” when Brad Cooper was ( Read more... )

Today is our 13th wedding anniversary. To celebrate, we’re going to see Iron Man 2 while Mom babysits. I have such good parents. :)

Also, I have achieved my pre-pregnancy weight (down a pound from it, in fact), and am wearing my pre-pregnancy jeans. Go me. :)

Also also, people are indicating that Amazon is shipping DEMON HUNTS already, so haunt ( Read more... )

Having just spent over an hour discussing this stupid book with Ted, I went into the kitchen to try to find something yummy and junk-foody to eat. There is, of course, nothing at all of that nature, because we’re Being Good and this is what, day 12 of no sweets. I curse and mutter and swear about not being able to find anything I want to eat.

Ted, ( Read more... )

I got the cover copy feedback sent. I got the chapter written. I did not get the kettle cleaned, but I COULD STILL DO IT.

Ted, in the meantime, has been Mr. Accomplishful and cleaned the upstairs of the house nigh unto unrecognizability, and has tidied up the back patio into a place people might want to spend time on. Now we need a barbeque and ( Read more... )

Got the revisions up to about 58K, whereupon I ran into the second place where I’d screwed up and where, it turned out, I still didn’t know exactly what it was I should do to fix it. So I said to Ted I didn’t know what to do, he said “Where are you at now,” I told him, and then he told me exactly what needed to happen next.

It’s so obvious I don’t ( Read more... )

I had an epiphany this morning and realized what was wrong with the book. My feeling that I had all the right pieces but they were in the wrong order was correct. Now I know how to arrange them properly.

I have no idea what this is going to do to my wordcount. The word “obliterate” may come into play. I’m unexpectedly chipper about this, because ( Read more... )