I've been keeping up Don't Eat the Paste and sucked into Facebook. But eljay was the place I put my feelings for years when they were involved.
( And this hurts so badly )

Recently I had the opportunity to read The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene. If you don't know, Brian Greene is a physicist who specializes in string theory and has a remarkable talent for explaining theoretical physics and the history of science that led to the theories in a way that is very understandable. He uses a lot of metaphors, stories and ( Read more... )

( this weekend )

Has been wet. Like fog so thick you could cut it with a knife (which makes me think of Scooby Doo cutting out the fog donut and eating it). All that wet makes me ache very badly.
But it's been a good week. There is a new project up at Beadwork at BellaOnline, a mini pirate banner for TLAP.
( this is the finished beadwork )

When I was little, Mom or Grandma got a book of wallpaper samples for my brother and I to make things with. I don't recall what all we made, probably the normal collection of crowns and such. But we also made Sock Monsters ( Read more... )

Yesterday, planning on avoiding the crowds Saturday, Mike got off work early so we could go to the Alaska State Fair.
We have never been as a family. Not even the years I had blue ribbon entries in the fair.
( a bit long )

( the short version is in Facebook statuses )

Yesterday, because it was gorgeous out, I started getting restless around noon. By 1:30, the teens and I had decided to go downtown for a few hours. I grabbed my camera hoping to catch a magpie and we jumped on the bus ( Read more... )