That $700 "your clutch needs to be replaced" problem with which Yakov's car was diagnosed by a brand-new mechanic in town who offered to inspect his car for the low low price of $20 in an attempt to bring in business to his new shop ( Read more... )

( Of mice and clowns )

It's 30 degrees out. 30 is supposed to be the *high* on Friday. Fie on cold fronts. At least we're not buried in snow, but sweet Jesus, what a nasty change from Santa Cruz. I am hiding in the refuge of my electric blanket.

CodeCon was fun. I caught up with people I knew, met cool new people, and saw starofpersia at Writers with Drinks - I hadn't seen her in ( Read more... )

I was in Seattle Wednesday and Thursday. I went to a blitzkrieg mawiage at the Arboretum in the rain on Thursday afternoon. The Washington state Supreme Court sessions I sat in on yesterday at UW Law School were interesting. (Well, the land use one wasn't, but the Athan case was.) I turned in my seat deposit for this fall (aka "$100 Buys You More ( Read more... )

It's been a good week. ( From waterfalls to Narnia )

My laptop died peacefully in its sleep Tuesday night, after being slow and "swirly" recently (that's the technical Mac term), so on Wednesday I took it in for repairs. To a different place from last time, natch. "I've never seen *that* problem before" is probably not a good sign. I've been checking out replacement machines online and in the shops, ( Read more... )

I went down to Salem Saturday night, ( hung out with Yakov, )

Here's ( a picture of the boy )

I edited my earlier entry to include this write-up, but I think it fell off people's friendpages, so voilà. Four posts today! Whee!

Mid-afternoon: The boy called me right as I was starting to write this entry, after sending me sweet text messages. ( The dish )

I met a guy. :)

Edit: Yes, okay, more details to come later.