www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/7729977/Ash-cloud-rapidly-encroaching-on-British-airspace-brings-new-travel-problems.html

Bad news: more ash in UK airspace.
Good news:  Telegraph currently says forecasters expect ash to be away from London by midweek.  I'm due to arrive around 10pm Wed night at Heathrow.
Forecasting news:  UK Met Office is ( Read more... )

What's your best advice for fishing out the drawstring of some sweatpants that's gotten pulled into the "tunnel"?  The drawstring is satin and the pants fabric is polarfleece.  Very annoying.  It's a long way over now . . . maybe halfway, though hard to tell.

 An excerpt from a NYT column today on middle age could have been written by, well, me, if I were that sharp a writer:

(“The seventh and eighth grades were for me, and for every single good and interesting person I’ve ever known, what the writers of the Bible meant when they used the words hell and the pit,” Anne Lamott wrote, in “Operating ( Read more... )

An Age of Kings.    Duh, I forgot in my previous post to write about the thing that made me want to post about media goodness: the release on DVD of the legendary BBC adaptation of all seven of Shakespeare's main history plays in order (Richard II, Henry IV parts 1 & 2, Henry V, Henry VI parts 1 & 2 & 3, Richard III (framed!  he was framed!  blame ( Read more... )

One of these years I'm going to be silly enough to enter the Washington Post's annual Peeps diorama contest.  Not that I think I have the combo of mad crafting skills + warped imagination of the award recipients -- but it'd be fun to play with my food [sic].

Warning if you're planning to record tonight's big BSG finale:  according to today's WaPost:

Cult favorite series "Battlestar Galactica" (Sci Fi at 9) wraps up for good tonight with a two-hour finale. (Note: A Sci Fi rep confirms the show is running two hours and 11 minutes, so program your DVRs accordingly.)

I enjoyed last Sunday's Super Bowl.  I did.  It was an exciting game.

Then there was the halftime show with Brooce.  During which several things stood out for me:

• The slimy scripted feel of Bruce's clowning around, both at the beginning and later with Little Steven
• Black clothes with a big ol' medallion on a thong close up near his throat
• Bruce's ( Read more... )

Hey, knitress , check out the word on the new Kindle!

Successfully freecycled so far this weekend ( Read more... )

So....
1. Post about something that made you happy today even if it's just a small thing/s.
2. Do this everyday for eight days without fail.
3. Tag 8 of your friends to do the same. (Whatever. Consider yourself tagged if you feel like it.)

Day 5:  Figuring out how to get the eleventy billion Christmas songs on my iPod holiday playlist to shuffle among ( Read more... )