So the kitten that we're fostering until a real home can be found is now called Amadeus.  I figured it was only fair to continue the musical vein of pet names around here.  Steinway and Amadeus haven't been getting along too well... Amadeus is totally ambivalent towards Steinway, but Steinway has a rapt interest in the kitten, and has snapped in ( Read more... )

I've been terrible and rotten about actually updating here, lately, but I figured my day of birthing at least deserves a little bit of rambling. Especially considering how I'm working from home and have no reason not to slack a bit, as I have all the time in the world to finish my studying before I take a Microsoft Certification Exam on Friday ( ( Read more... )

So last night I did something kind of interesting - something I haven’t done in… well, several years at least. Maybe more. I sat down with some acrylics I was given for Christmas a couple of years ago and I painted. Just for the hell of it. Still have blue paint stubbornly stuck to my hands and wrist this morning, just to prove to myself that I ( Read more... )

Right, so have I mentioned that my little sisters are the most goddamn adorable things in the whole entire world? Seriously, it’s almost disgusting how cute they are. As promised, here is a link to a selection of pictures from my last trip. The brown-eyed-baby is Mikayla and she’s the socialite - constantly talking and laughing and making noise ( Read more... )

This blog was interrupted by the following HORRIBLE NEWS regarding firefly: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72263-0.html?tw=wn_index_1Read more... )

Today is the first really cold day we’ve had this “fall” so far. It’s been getting pretty chilly at night for a while - but then it’s been getting up to 70 during the day, which offsets it. Now all the sudden it’s only in the fifties during the day - and to top it off the trees are all bright red, vibrant orange and brilliant yellow. It could ( Read more... )

Hmmm. So… I came out of this weekend with a few things ( Read more... )

How was your evening, Lisa? Productive and fruitful, yes ( Read more... )

You like how I spurn my design document to ramble here? I’m having trouble getting my prose-motor running this morning - I’m hoping if I babble a bit about insubstantial things it’ll get the words rolling ( Read more... )

That was quick ( Read more... )