The trip to DC was relatively smooth - no travel delays, and good service on Delta (nicer planes than I've seen recently, too) a nice time with my family and friends, some visiting time for favorite museums, an interesting and productive work conference, and a very comfortable, fun to drive, so-ugly-it's-cute Nissan Cube as our rental car (despite ( Read more... )

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I discovered that sheep like scritches.


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Confess the first things you bought from Amazon:

My first order was Dec 1, 1998, and I bought Katherine Neville's A Calculated Risk, which was fun and entertaining but not as good as The Eight (alas, her next book, The Magic Circle, was a flaming pile of poop, and I have not heard good things about A Calculated Risk, which I believe is a sequel to ( Read more... )

For that meme wot is going around.


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I hereby join the chorus and say please do not be crossposting anything over to Facebook and/or Twitter. There are many things my mother does not need to know about. If pressed, I'll retreat to Dreamwidth, but I'd rather not bother at the moment unless the tide gets overwhelming. I'm hoping LJ gets their heads out of their collective asses and ( Read more... )

Ended up going to the Maryland Sheep and Wool Fair twice, on Saturday with eccentricartist (who had an ATM suck her debit card into the depths and not return it, poor thing) and then again with Bemo, who was so taken by our stories of various interesting farm critters that he wanted to go also. Although the prospect of deep-fried Twinkies may also have played a ( Read more... )