The snowdrops are blooming in the side yard, it's about 60 degrees, and very windy.  I was out quite a bit, walked about three times as much as usual (not that that's all that much, these days, but enough to tire my legs out), and thoroughly enjoyed the day (except for the wind, which the National Weather Service has taken to calling "breezy" in ( Read more... )

that is spring in Chicago.  There's snow on the ground.

In other news, there's a new update at Sleeping Hedgehog, all about remaking superheroes -- Green Arrow, Green Lantern, and Batman (with a cast of dozens, at least).

And in further news, I started watching Utawarerumono last night.  It's pretty good so far, except for the little girl voices that ( Read more... )

Haven't been able to get in here since Saturday -- I guess that DDoS alert was for real.

Started watching the anime of Togainu no chi -- it starts off really, really slow -- the first episode is all backstory, which I don't think they should have done that way.   Everyone is really pretty, though.

I've also started posting poetry reviews at Sleeping ( Read more... )

or, "the downside of being insecure ( Read more... )

This is embarrassing -- it was in a washing tray with some hoses and other -- well, print-washing stuff.  The one place I never thought to look.  (I've only been looking for it for a month or two ( Read more... )

two hours to sort out the CDs yesterday.  I now need to find space for about a hundred, which are lined up on a shelf in front of the racks.

I got six more in the mail Friday.

There has to be a way.

I was thinking about this last night:  sometimes, we don't discover things so much as remember them.  This comes up because I was poking around  YouTube looking at anime and ran across a bunch of clips set to Nickelback's "Far Away."  I looked, listened, and said to my self "I love that song, and I've heard it before."  Then I said, "Aha!  ( Read more... )