I am forging ahead with the B5 S2 re-watch, having just finished A Distant Star. That's my episode to recap so I can work on that this weekend. I wanted to get ahead a bit because two episodes in my story gap are next and I need the time to work on writing something for them. I have the germ of an idea for The Long Dark, and Spider in the Web will ( Read more... )

 
Cookies underway. Dinner planned, tonight and tomorrow. The CSA gave us a half turkey in our Christmas basket! Yay! #2 is off on a bike ride with R. If we're going to have a sunny, warmish Christmas, might as well take advantage of it.

Links! I got these all over; sorry for the lack o'credits.

Star Wars Snowflakes

Christmas Trees for Geeks

Snow ( Read more... )

The bad week is upon us, so fingers crossed, internets ( Read more... )

CrazyDog got me up at 6 this morning in order to tell me he'd already taken care of the whole peeing thing. We could skip the walk and go straight to the playing! Lucky us. Lucky me.

The weather is scary. It was 100 degrees again yesterday with the air soggy and thick, like breathing swampwater. Hiding in air conditioning (which is too cold and ( Read more... )

My heather garden survived the winter of Much Snow, even the little Irish Lemon that got plowed up and hastily re-planted once the snow receded. That one even bloomed, albeit less than the others! The best growers are the ones I named 'John' and 'White Star'. Hmm. The rocks are a recent addition. During my drives back and forth to help with my ( Read more... )

It seem an age since I posted last, and maybe it was. I've been in WV with the boys. The dog is in the 'dog hotel' and R is home working on fencing the yard to confine the Amazing Flying Dog, while at the same time protecting the fair state of Maryland's computers from deadly virus attack.

The sandwich generation in my case has turned into a triple ( Read more... )

March is now officially the cruelest month. Or the busiest maybe. Hello! I've been writing and been sick and been working and other things. Have an update...

I chaperoned a group of middle school boys to Washington D.C. to see the Terra Cotta Warrior exhibit at the National Geographic Museum.
( I didn't even know there was a National Geographic Museum! )

What a week. I quite enjoyed my weekend alone, what with the intensive TV viewing (The Omega Factor and Chuck) and the cooking for just me and the blissful quiet. But I am also enjoying the homecoming and the company of my noisy loving boys. Work is slightly better. My boss got a big grant that will move my facility into an open lab with other ( Read more... )

RL is way too complex. Fandom is way too complex. Politics is one big suck. To wit:

My parents went on a road trip to Florida. For those who've missed previous parental worry posts, my Dad's eyesight is wonky, which means these little excursions leave me a bit fretful. I do find it amusing that they quite deliberately didn't tell me they'd decided ( Read more... )

1. I stay late at work on Friday to set up an experiment, come in late on Sunday to move it along, stagger in early on a Monday holiday to do it ( Read more... )