When three out of five of your first LJ posts for the year are cranky posts, you realize that you're getting old and cranky. But, damn it, I've earned it. Here are the things I'm cranky about today ( Read more... )

My ISP has been having email issues since last night. If you've sent me email in the last 12-16 hours, or you need to get in touch, please PM me here. I'll post when the outage has been cleared.

I've been home four days now, and it's been a little bit of a rough landing. Work has been, as expected, busy and challenging, and not always in a good way. At home I can get nothing done without being harassed by Zeke. I haven't had a single day where I haven't been roused out of bed at an ungodly hour (this morning it was 4:30). Vacation is truly ( Read more... )

This morning in his excellent Link Salad, jaylake pointed to a New York Times article about the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago completing their dictionary of Demotic, the language of the common people of ancient Egypt. It was an excellent piece. But about three-quarters of the way through, the author talks about how Demotic reveals more ( Read more... )

There's been a lot of discussion lately about tears and Rep. John Boehner and expression of emotion in public, and I want to talk about this, but I'm going to save it for its own post. I have a lot to say ( Read more... )

It's cold ( Read more... )

My hand has been in a brace for about half a week now. I've come to think of the padded, molded plastic brace wrapped with an Ace-style bandage as looking a little like a burkah for the hand.


( Read more... )

One of the things on today's extensive To Do list (about half of which I completed, which is actually saying something, given the tasks in question) was to give myself an hour to write. Every time I sat down to write, a cat crawled onto me. Removing said cat did not make a difference; the cat would assert its property rights and crawl back on again ( Read more... )

Everyone I know is going somewhere cool over the next two weeks: WorldCon, ANA, GenCon. I am jealous as hell.

I splurged all of $20 to attend the Pacific Northwest Mouse Meet, a Disneyana show in Lynnwood the weekend of the 15th--a day trip--an hour of driving roundtrip, no hotel costs. While I expect it to be fun it won't be the same, I assure ( Read more... )

I'm itchy. I'm hot. I'm restless. I want to observe the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, and yet I find myself irritated by it and I don't know why. Sophie knocked over a plant tonight and broke the pot. It interrupted a sweet conversation with jackwilliambell. I was good and paid my bills and I keep forgetting to mail them (I'd prefer not to discuss online ( Read more... )