Thank you, darkhavens, for the blue spider v-gift on my profile page -- it made me smile! It's so sweet of you to remember me even though I'm so much less involved in fandom than I used to be.

Worked overtime today in spite of my birthday, but just had a delicious fried-chicken dinner courtesy of my wonderful henryr (who also gave me a brand-new iPod Touch to ( Read more... )

Here's my latest "read this!" recommendation:
Crap Detection 101 by Howard RheingoldEveryone -- not just non-web-savvy people -- should read this ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrate this holiday, which is my favorite one of the year.

I have much to be thankful for. *counts blessings*

Now, off to my brother's house for Thanksgiving dinner, in a car with three freshly baked (by H) loaves of cinnamon-raisin bread. Oh, the torture! :)

Pimp #1: Boundaries by janedavitt. (The Sentinel, J/B, rating: R) Jane wrote this story for me in exchange for my donation to Sweet Charity, and it exceeded my expectations in several ways. I asked for older Jim and Blair reconciling after a several-year separation or rift, and I gave her several suggestions for details that she could weave into the story if ( Read more... )

We got about a foot of snow today. I couldn't leave work early because I had to finish a project today, since I'm on vacation next week and it can't wait until I get back. At 2:00 pm, it was near-whiteout conditions. The snow was blowing sideways! By 3:00, it was winding down. At 3:45 the sky cleared enough to let the sun peek through. It's an omen ( Read more... )

Whew -- what a weekend! We had a marathon party on Saturday both to celebrate henryr's birthday and to welcome back our friends A and S, who have returned to the US after living in Japan and Australia for several years. It was a lot of fun, but I'm exhausted!

Gotta squee about (and pimp) the first Sentinel story written for me: The Good Fathers by polly_b ( ( Read more... )

Lays barbecue chips
Two weeks of soft food ends in
Oral explosionI got the last of my stitches (from periodontal surgery) out on Thursday. Two weeks of soft food at an end -- yeehah! (Thanks to all who expressed sympathy; I appreciated it ( Read more... )

We're off to the Cape! We'll be back late next Saturday (September 17); I hope to have some good stories to tell you all when I return.

Take care, everyone! ::waves::

I'm going to be away from LJ even more than usual for the next week or so because I'm in the process of migrating to a new computer. Then, when the new system is all set up, I'm going to work on my next project: setting up my web site and making a gallery page for my icons ( Read more... )

What's kept me away from LJ lately? In a way, H. Every year, he goes to his company's annual meeting for several days, and that's where he was from Sunday to early this morning. Since I've had the house to myself, I used this as an opportunity to crank my music up loud, sing at the top of my lungs, and watch the musicals that I love (but he doesn't ( Read more... )