1) Autumn has arrived in the Pacific Northwest. It's 7 AM-ish and it's dark outside. Well, more like twilight. It's wet and cold. It's definitely autumn and nearly October. I'm actually rather delighted about the start of the haunting season.

2) I have minimal plans for this weekend. Dinner out tonight; writing and day-job stuff tomorrow. ( Read more... )

Health
I am sick. It appears to be the head cold that everyone else in the office has had. I suppose the silver lining is that I have it now rather than coming down with it during the week, when I'm supposed to be traveling. The sooner it's out of my system, the better. Wow, my head hurts.

OscarsMissed the first half hour of the Oscars. My ( Read more... )

It's cold. It's dark. And there are wolves ( Read more... )

. . . but probably won't:

Restaurant Bathrooms: Why are restaurant bathrooms invariably cold? It's the one place in a restaurant where you will remove clothing to function. It's like you're being penalized for being human. And then the water from the faucet for handwashing is also, invariably, cold. Why? In the dead of winter, WHY?

Living with a ( 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... )

I can't count how many friends have posted either here or on Facebook about the enormously expensive/extremely heavy/unusually shaped/other modified adjective piece of meat acquired for Christmas day dinner. Either it's a thing this year or I just never noticed it before. Funny ( Read more... )

It's Thursday morning. I'm due some significant comp time at work, so I'm taking today off, making this a four-day weekend.

Today's goals are to:
--Run to the supermarket for wine for the weekend
--Take my camera lens to be repaired
--Finish what I hope is a final revision to the story I've been hammering at
--Read a story for a friend--Get out ( Read more... )

I was so sad and upset yesterday that I actually included my name in a post on LJ. I never do that. I've remedied the situation. On the one hand, it's not like no one who reads this knows who I am. On the other hand, it's been a thing for me to not connect my name too much with this journal so...take that for what you will ( Read more... )

I ought to have had some protein with breakfast. As it is, breakfast was merely a hunk of holiday challah--not especially healthy but, oh, so tasty.

The New York Post is now following me on Twitter. I feel a compulsion to be extra topical and witty.

NASA plans to realize the vision that David Brin wrote about in SundiverI did a little bit of ( Read more... )

Mark Twain sealed his autobiography until 100 years after his death. Time's up (with thanks to the_monkey_kingPhotographer Philippe Halsman believed that people reveal their true natures when they jump. To see those natures, he asked the good and great (including the likes of Salvador Dali, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Nixon, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, among ( Read more... )