We're finally out of winter and into warm, sunshiney spring ( Read more... )

Sorry I haven't been talkative much these past few weeks. Work schedule has been a bit erratic, and I've been getting a lot of editing work, and there was the 0.16 Crawl tournament that took up a lot of my free time for two weeks. I did pretty well there, got one character up to Level 17 before I got myself killed. Still have another character ( Read more... )

So the puppy actually helped with the festival. The co-worker came over and fed the dogs and let them out while we were at the festival, so we were able to spend several more hours there. Had a good time. The other two acts we saw were good too. Much more Irish/Celtic than Carbon Leaf, of course, but CL largely stuck to their deliberately Celtic ( Read more... )

A typical Tink relaxation position.

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Two weeks ago, KJ came to me wanting to get another dog. There was this dog newly available for adoption that would probably work well with Tink, could we take a chance on him? So that Friday we picked him up for a trial weekend, and he's been with us since. He's been bounced around between several foster homes, so he's taken a while to get ( Read more... )

So KJ's mom spent a week and a half with us. She went back home Thursday last week. We all had a good time. We took her out to a nice Chinese restaurant for belated Mother's Day, and she helped us hang the wallpaper in our bathroom ( Read more... )

So far new LJ looks uglier, still lacks some of the old features, probably even more bloated code. I'm sure we're all very shocked. But hey, gotta keep the PR people and coders happy ( Read more... )

Well, let's see. Things going on ( Read more... )

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Pooky takes on an acorn!

Today she happened across the cricket. It was right there, out in the open on the patio. She followed it back and forth on the patio, stalking and batting and pouncing and watching. Surprisingly it didn't seem to take any damage. I guess crickets aren't very susceptible to concussions.