Gorgeous weather, lots to do, and I've got a stinkin' cold.  Blearrrgh.  I need to get groceries, and after that I think I have a date with the couch, tea, the laptop, and the remote servers at work.   Maybe smoothies instead of tea ( Read more... )

I had a lovely time last weekend at JadeCon and basically want to hug half my flist for contributing to that ( Read more... )

I'm still here; I've been turtling for no particular reason. In no real order, here's a bit about the last two (?!) months ( Read more... )

I do love a sunny Sunday morning ( Read more... )

It's the find-reviewers season of the year again, which means that I'm spending lots and lots of time with Google hunting up people who are experts on various topics ( Read more... )

Here's what's been up in my world for the past two weeks or so ( Read more... )

Classes cancelled at NU today; the last time that happened was my freshman year. All roads closed in Lake County -- and that's never happened before in the 40+ years my family's lived there. We were living in Milwaukee and missed the big blizzard of 67, but this one is going to give my family stories to tell for a long time ( Read more... )

Another bits-and-pieces update ( Read more... )

After lots of travel and family and holiday and conventions, there's something really satisfying about getting back to my ordinary life. Even if it does involve unpacking, laundry, grocery shopping, cleaning the kitchen and burning sauerkraut and such ( Read more... )

I drafted a post that was full or all sorts of pseudo deep things about the shootings in Arizona, about how all the talking heads try to attribute blame after this kind of tragedy, about how I just wanted them all to shut up after the Virginia Tech shootings. But the world doesn't need any more pontificating about this. I remember repeating to ( Read more... )