More filing last night: down to one significant stack, plus smaller piles on both desks and some stuff on the sewing table.

Read: Well, tried to read Death by Darjeeling, “A Tea Shop Mystery”. Got about halfway through, never was engaged. Exposition, exposition, exposition, and a serious point-to-point correspondence between the regular ( Read more... )

Blink once (…interview for job, get job, get sick, twice, start new job) and damn near two months has gone by. Will back-fill important stuff in stages; you mostly won’t care.

Am now working at Beckman in Brea, and as of Monday, so is Mary. Doing FDA-regulated documentation for medical lab machines the size of a Volkswagen. About as different from ( Read more... )

Equally useless in the morning, but somewhat less frantic than last time. Unfortunately, the traffic was worse and I got there barely in time for the lecture. Which was incredibly entertaining, despite being entirely 19th century. This week was about Artusi's Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well, or more accurately it was about ( Read more... )