I have been steadily working on homework and usefulness this morning. Having M. home (albeit him running around outside with his power tools) is keeping me honest. I feel sorry for him, yesterday he spent the whole day digging up the old concrete footings that held the decomposed part of the fence in place...then his shovel broke. Of course, ( Read more... )

It's been an eventful few weeks and I haven't posted (anything) in the midst of upheaval and tumult, but some good things have happened ( Read more... )

Approaching apogee (or is perigee? ) of the weekend - for a week that seems to have gone quickly in retrospect, each day was a freaking eternity. I've notice I always seem to get my disabling headaches Sunday night/Monday morning (which, if not broken can themselves stretch indefinitely). Mommy-llama thinks I should consider working through the ( Read more... )

I was going to compose an elegant (and eloquent) post about 5 hours ago, but then got distracted by ( Read more... )

If you were a schoolchild in the Kansas City metro area today, it was a snow day. At a balmy 8 deg F, it was a bit cold to actually play in the snow. This morning, as I got dressed, I was watching the morning news to find out road conditions. I watched the school closings list crawl across the bottom of the screen. When I saw the listing for my ( Read more... )

There was an article in the New York Times recently about how women with mates gain weight. This is because their mates buy bags of peanut M&M's and leave them where Llamas can find them. Mmmmm....tasty.

gryffin23 has proven to be a most excellent interlocutor in challenging me to rethink my assumptions, lately. Her comment about gaming (had I ever tried ( Read more... )

gryffin23's comment on Robert Jordan's novels being a serialized record of a really long D&D game got me thinking. Over the years I've enjoyed (and occasionally mocked) the Wheel of Time (WoT): its influence on my adolescent appreciation of fantastic fiction (and fiction in general), the terrible cover art, the perpetually pissed-off female characters, the ( Read more... )

Greetings, llama-readers. I crawled out from underneath a 4 day migraine this morning, with equal parts dread and relief (Relief that my head had stopped hurting, dread of whatever messes awaited at work.) My poor co-worker had been holding down the fort single-handedly this week(since our senior has been out on vacation.) I think I managed to do ( Read more... )

Did you know that rehydrated mushrooms have an odor that smells, not entirely unpleasantly, of wet Molly-dog?

Just sayin'.

An experiment in experiencing Llama-stream consciousness for yourself ( Read more... )