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Moved elsewhere
As is rather obvious, I'm not actively updating my LJ these days. It's possible that I'll come back to it at some point, and in any case I'd like to keep my posts available somewhere. For the foreseeable future, though, I'll be updating my newish website, Whatever Next. You can find it at www.whatever-next.com, if you're so inclined. -
Quick holiday highlight
So M & P returned from their travels last night. Along with E, we spent a couple hours sitting in the living room, variously eating dinner, talking about our holiday and just generally catching up. I'm sure it says something that this brief period of low-key hanging out with part of my chosen family felt more like a holiday celebration than just ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts jotted down on today's plane ride
What you did best was what was wanted from you.
-Lois McMaster Bujold
I love this line. It reminds me that perhaps, just perhaps, it isn't my weaknesses that define me, but rather my strengths. My gifts tell the world who I am and what I offer, but perhaps more tellingly, they tell me the same thing ( Read more... ) -
Placeholder: Weird dreams
I've been having the strangest dreams over the past week. No specific visual images I can put my finger on, but almost like there are voices in the dark, whispering stuff I can *almost* figure out, but not quite. I'm not sure if they're speaking a language I can understand in the dream, even. It's sort of like that feeling you get when there's a ( Read more... ) -
The reward
The reward for challenge met is not a life of leisure, a series of accolades, or an endless victory lap.
No, the reward for challenge met is more challenge. -
The power of tense
One ah-ha moment for me this weekend came in a small group conversation in the midst of yesterday's morning session. I noticed that very often, I explain what I "must" do in terms of choices I have made. So, for example ( Read more... ) -
Three good things, in very short form
1. Having an absolutely wonderful time at Opening Weekend at the Grove. I love having reminders of why I love this community so much ( Read more... ) -
On the road again...
Heading off to Opening Weekend at the Grove in...oh, about 30 minutes. I'd say "Don't expect any updates from me for the next few days," but it's not as if I've actually written anything of import here for the last 3 months.
So...um, business as usual, then. Right. -
Anyone in need of a wireless router?
Buying the new computer led, almost inevitably, to a few other purchases, including a new wireless router. There was nothing wrong with the old one, except that a)It was not a Wireless-N router, and b)It looks nothing like a spaceship ( Read more... ) -
I almost wish I lived in Minnesota...
So then I could say, "Yes, indeed, my senator is Al Franken." There are a couple of great lines in this 5 minute clip, particularly this one: "We are entitled to our own opinions. We aren't entitled to our own facts."
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