It was significantly cloudy in Dublin at Solar Eclipse time and I had no real hope of seeing it. In fact, it was *raining* lightly, but I was still out and about and keeping an eye on the sky. Suddenly the clouds broke just enough to keep a haze over the sun, allowing me to look directly at the eclipse, which, at 9:23am, was close enough to the 90 ( Read more... )

We all know I have a coat problem. Slightly less well-known is my bag problem, which is particularly incomprehensible because I don’t usually carry one.

I would, however, give up all the other rarely used bags in favor of never using this one:


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There will be a book signing event in Seattle!

Where: The University Book Store on University Way in Seattle, Washington

Where, in greater detail: This will be a Fireside Event, taking place downstairs on the far side of the cafe, rather than in the usual event area.

When: 7-8pm on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

What: I will definitely be signing, ( Read more... )

Somehow the book has nearly caught up to my YTD wordcount again. That’s kind of weird. Anyway, I realized today I may have as few as 4 chapters left, which would be sort of awesome. No, actually, who am I kidding, it would be totally made of awesome. I could have as many as six or seven, but four or five is seeming pretty likely. *fingers crossed*

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It’s nice out! It won’t last, and in fact was miserable when we walked to the gym three hours ago, but it’s nice out now! And I am happy! It doesn’t take much. :)

I made the error, perhaps, of posting this on Labor Day, when not many people in the US were around, and so, though I’ve gotten some (excellent) responses, I’ll point people here again: ( Read more... )

It really is so very, very easy to make me happy.

I noticed a mailing tube in the pile of stuff in my office this morning, and thought, "Huh, wonder what that is," so I opened it up. Before I'd actually gotten it open, I'd remembered what it was: the X3 Rogue poster that the utterly awesome tambowrites had sent me last year. (If I'd remembered I had that, ( Read more... )

Ok, so earlier this evening I saw this article on BBC about a guy who made a documentary about old people's lives in Britain. He met about forty old age pensioners, many of whom were pretty miserable living in care facilities or tower apartments, and he got 'em all together and found a record label willing to take a chance and they recorded "My ( Read more... )