Well, one month and one day, since his one month was yesterday.  And I didn't take a picture, because I am a terrible exhausted person who is just hoping to finish this post before Andrew wakes up.  (Charlie is awake, and sleeping in Grandma's arms at the moment ( Read more... )

I think the Sherlock remix fic is finished - that is, I have written the ending and there's a beginnign and a middle, though whether they all work together is really beyond me.  At any rate, it's done, and I've just sent to some of the usual suspects to see if they can look at it for me.  (Deadlines, schmedlines - I could have all the comments and ( Read more... )

So I wrote this nice long entry yesterday while Andrew was in gymnastics - in Word, of course, because I have long since learned my lesson about writing long entries directly into LJ.  And then I tried to post it last night while holding Charlie, and somehow my finger slipped, and poof -- the entire intro paragraph that I'd typed one-handed ( Read more... )

( all under a cut because charles is waking up and this is fastest )

We have decamped from Tampa, and are now in Orlando, probably for the remainder of our stay in Florida.  ICPC only requires we stay in state, and there are way more direct flights home from Orlando than from Tampa, so here we sit.  We might have to return to Tampa, if we're not home in time for Charles's two-week ped appointment, but meh.  It's not ( Read more... )

Apologies for the radio silence.  Much as I did before we adopted Andrew, I had this vision of me, with an infant prone to sleeping off those first weeks of life, in a hotel with wifi and a free coffee station downstairs, where I could do lots of writing in an environment where someone else scrubs the toilet ( Read more... )

bad news:  i have lost the use of one arm

good news: here's why:

( the first of what will probably be many pictures )