In hearing that I just spent a week at the beach, two people have remarked to me that I seem to get a lot of vacation time. By U.S. standards, I suppose I may get more than some, although most of it in the last few years has been spent traveling home for family emergencies and the like and not relaxing on a beach ( Read more... )

The Altoids Tin Re-Use Contest   - How much do I love that they're doing this? Once last fall,  Arabella and Moeyknight and I stayed up all night making
marble magnets - like 87,000 of them - and put them in Altoids tins to give to those not fortunate enough to have marble magnets of their own.
Since them, I've been strangely fond of Altoids tins.

And this is great ( Read more... )