Happy New Year to All!

May you have a happy, healthy, prosperous 2011, and find the wisdom and fortitude to handle whatever life throws at you along the way.

It's the start of a new year and a new decade - should be full of surprises.

(So I posted a few seconds too late to keep the January 1 dateline. Oh well.)

[not counting the one started but pitched -- gently, it was a library book -- across the room, unfinished]

Black Blade Blues, by J.A. Pitts
Dead Man's Ransom, by Ellis Peters (re-read)
Night Work by Laurie R. King (re-read)
The Art of Detection by Laurie R. King (re-read)
A Wizard of Mars by Diane Duane
Saltation by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Remnant ( Read more... )

As you can probably tell from the (in)frequency of my posting, I mostly use my account to have a LJ identity for posting comments to other LJ'ers posts or to have an OpenID ID for Blogspot comments etc.  But for various reasons (not unconnected with a desire to have a more active LJ account) I am making a new resolution to post more often, even if ( Read more... )

Why is it that the recipe for Sugar Cookies in The Joy of Cooking has totally failed me, these last two years, whereas when I was younger, yea! even when I was making Hamster and Musketeer cookies to take to the Millenium Philcon/Worldcon back in 2001, I had no trouble at all? I follow the recipe exactly, with special attention to the  quantities ( Read more... )

I want to make note of some of the things I'm thankful for this year ( Read more... )

Having trouble learning to use an LJ-Cut - Attempt follows!
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Back in June I floated a proposal that folks without other plans for dining with friends or editors might wish to band together to explore the restaurants of Montreal, and got quite a response. I'd hoped to check in with everyone as the Con came closer,  to see if we could settle on particular nights, times, and restaurants that were especially ( Read more... )

that I still had, at 57, the energy and curiosity and spirit of adventure that I had When We Were Very Young....instead I grew up to be a hobbit, portly, sedentary, and settled in my ways.  But wait -- who is that at my door?

!!!!!!!!! YES WE CAN! !!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!! YES WE CAN! !!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!! YES WE CAN! !!!!!!!!!!