Basically, the overhead fixtures and 2 walls of the living room are all that have power. We've run a heavy duty extension cord from the living room to the family room to plug in the modem, and brought the laptop into the living room to plug it in. But this is very much less than ideal and I have to turn the laptop over to Mom in a bit. I'll have ( Read more... )

We went to the Asian Art Museum yesterday, which is always and all-day affair and usually exhausting. But we wanted to see the Cyrus Cylinder while it was here. It's a fascinating exhibit, both historically and artistically.

But also there was Japanese Art from the Larry Ellison Collection, and it got me thinking about wall scrolls. More ( Read more... )

Today was the annual Antique and Craft Fair up in Walnut Creek. I'd been contacted through Etsy about this and had decided why not, I'll give it a go. Well.... I don't think I'll be going back. Mainly because I didn't sell ANYTHING. Technically I sold one item, but it was a Red Cross donation item ( Read more... )

Mother's Day starting with the dishwasher short-circuiting rather spectacularly, but ended with my brother and sis-in-law coming down for dinner, which was nice. I learned that my brother is apparently some kind of grinning freak-of-nature ninja, which is terribly amusing. I have this mental image now of him grinning like the Joker as he goes ( Read more... )

A skeleton found beneath a Leicester car park has been confirmed as that of English king Richard III.Which I'm finding fascinating and exciting for all sorts of reasons. But then ( Read more... )

As we were cleaning up from lunch I heard a short siren, and a moment later an SUV pulled over across the street followed by a police car. The SUV had plastic taped up in place of the back window, so I figured that's why he was being pulled over. Except.... the officer didn't approach the SUV. And then another police car drove up. And then two ( Read more... )

I think I can stop running now. Maybe. I still have a load of stuff to catch up on online but at least now I have time to sit at the computer. Sometimes ( Read more... )

So the deck is out. One minor hiccup of a burst pipe, but the deck is out. Why was there a pipe under the deck? Because the guy who put it in was an idiot. He was really big on do-it-yourself, but not so big on doing things to code or even common sense. Take the deck itself: ordinary wood, not weather-proofed, and painted - not stained, not ( Read more... )

I basically lost the last two days to being sick. Some sort of stomach bug - only threw up once, but everything I ate or drank was questionable, and as a result I hardly ate anything at all. It seems to be over - finally - today, which means it's time for Epic Catch-Up. When you can't be vertical for more than 5-10 minutes at a time, not much ( Read more... )

I am so done with this week -_-

I hope everyone is well, especially those of you on the east coast. Just the bits and pieces I've heard sound horrible :(

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