Someone at the Archive of Our Own FB page asked how many fics people had in various length categories, so being me, I counted mine up ( Read more... )

If you observe a phenomenon, and come up with an explanation that is based on other observed facts and that then explains the phenomenon completely (as far as you can tell), would you feel that your explanation is inadequate and requires further knowledge ( Read more... )

I'm working on tagging my books in LibraryThing, because librarian. I'm trying to add either "fiction" or "nonfiction" to every entry, as well as more specific and (to me) useful tags like "historical fiction - medieval" or "mystery - london" or "ya - fantasy". So I am (for instance) classifying poetry as fiction. I'm highly tempted right now to ( Read more... )

Number of trick-or-treaters in 2018: 133

Number of books read in 2018: 224 total (186 fiction, 38 nonfiction)

If I have the ability to do something, that is, I technically possess the skills and physical/mental capacity for it, but I lack the will or the drive or the time... do I really have the ability to do it?

1) We had 146 trick-or-treaters this year. The most popular non-candy item was the mini plastic dinosaurs, next most popular was the Halloween pencils ( Read more... )

I was going back through some really old entries and came across this, which I originally posted on January 1, 2006. It made me laugh, so I'm re-posting. (Note, not all of the links still work correctly.)

( Aziraphale and Crowley's New Year's Resolutions )

A few months back I joined the social medial network thing that is for neighborhoods in my city. I don't actually participate in it, but I get email digests of the day's posts and an email if there's an important official announcement/reminder, e.g. "if your regular trash pickup day is Tuesday, your trash will be picked up on Wednesday this week ( Read more... )

Can we just say I'm not good at keeping up with stuff online lately and leave it at that? One of these days I really will get more of those prompts written, I promise ( Read more... )

• This past weekend I bottle-fed a calf for the first time
• If I keep having story ideas, or plans to make stuff, but rarely manage to write/make things... what does that imply?
• The progressive bifocals are working well
• With four degrees (three in history, one in library science), it seems like what I'm called on to do most is solve printing problems
• I ( Read more... )