"She was the kind of person who would walk into work on a Monday morning with her travel mug of coffee clenched in one hand; a copy of bell hooks under one arm, and a package of little plastic of "B-Movie Horror Victims" figurines under the other. She looked so normal, but with random clues that one maybe should not trust to judge the book by its ( Read more... )

Item the first: The Bluenose Too just got a new clutch yesterday. Apparently, I'm hard on my toys ;-) Thanks to the magic that is LJ tagging, I was able to confirm that this is, in fact, my *third* clutch on this car - second replacement - which seems to surprise pretty much everyone but me ;-) (No, I don't ride the clutch, but I do use my ( Read more... )

When I was a child, my father despaired of my total inability to learn anything to do with numbers. He's a brilliant design engineer, and math was always his thing, so my propensity for words and writing over numbers and complex calculations ensured there would always be an unbridgeable gulf between us intellectually. (There were a lot of gulfs ( Read more... )