So I was sitting here waiting for dinner to finish nuking (What? Cook? Me?) and entering stash yarn and projects onto my new Ravelry account. A flash of movement outside the office window looked like the cat until I looked up again to see a small fluffy-tailed creature with a reddish chest and a mouthful of something like dead vole, trotting ( Read more... )

7 weeks since my last post

3 bookfairs and 2 remainder shows in three states  in the last 9 weeks

12 volumes of Dance to the Music of Time read at last

14 chapters of WUTBFA  by the delightful 
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Starting with waking up much earlier than usual for no apparent reason. So I got up, enjoyed the early morning sun and entered a few more books into the database. The piles awaiting entry are beginning to overwhelm, not to mention the stacks of boxes yet to be unpacked from the last two bookfairs. Even B's sister noted on Sunday how narrow the ( Read more... )

Since B always has a 4-day weekend, this one didn't make much of a dent, except for the fact the Half-Price Books was having their 20% off sale starting Friday morning. Our closest stores are over in the East Bay, so I  got up early on Friday to get on the road at the crack of dawn (8:15am. What?) and managed to find the new location in Berkeley ( Read more... )

I had a post all written at the Portland Airport last Monday (free wireless! Woot!) but as the plane started to load and I tried to upload,  lj decided I wasn't me and the post disappeared into the ether. This discouraged me from trying again to wax somewhat eloquent about the lovely visit with
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Two weeks ago today we were concerned about getting the huge truck down to WonderCon because of the snow and ice. Today, it's 70 degrees and all the  lilacs are budding madly and the Japanese maple outside my window went from contemplation of  spring to full leaf in three days.

Unable to resist, I bought another lilac bush for the front and put a ( Read more... )

Note to self: The way to get people in the booth and asking questions is to log on and start reading my flist postings ( Read more... )

Between unpacking from last week's fair, succumbing to a 12-hour bout of food poisoning and the first, belated snowfall of the season which blocked internet access for most of yesterday, this week been a bit exhausting. Spent yesterday in bed after "vomiting and purging" (to use Dorothy Sayer's delicate terminology) on a half-hourly schedule the ( Read more... )

In theory we had internet both at the hall and the hotel, but that would have required me to have a spare moment and mind share at the same time, which pretty much didn't happen. Unloading and setting up two vehicles worth of stock took longer than I had hoped, although B was a prince about not leaving the booth to scout until he'd found a place ( Read more... )

Some people celebrate Valentine's Day with flower and candy and suchlike. At our house it's celebrated by loading waaaay too many banker boxes filled with books and bubble wrap into a van that is clearly not designed to hold all we plan to put into it ( Read more... )