I went on a walk today, along with what I was told was 30,000 other people, from San Jose City Hall to the Cesar Chavez Plaza. It wasn't a very quick walk, to be honest, and I don't know if the organizers expected quite as many people as 3.0x10E4. I did see some clever posters, including a number of variations of the image of Carrie Fisher with a ( Read more... )

Having weakened and gone and put down the dough on the video card, I figured I might as well as go all the way to the corner and build the thing instead of waiting for vacation like I'd been planning. It took just a bit over four hours from opening the first box to pushing the power switch for the first time, including a run to Fry's for an extra ( Read more... )

I ran to Common Ground yesterday and spent two hours double-digging in the compost. This morning, I spread the wheat and poked in the beets. Then I sawed off some bamboo for stakes and ran red cord around them to, hopefully, discourage the lawn guy from "weeding" the patch this time 'round.

I had rather a nice weekend, all things considered. The weather was drought-inducing-ly, un-seasonably warm. Although some of my time in it was a little less than voluntary. Also, I got absolutely everything at work done before I left on Friday, which is something I haven't really been able to do for months. Having a visit from ebonlock was quite lovely as ( Read more... )