It's pissing down rain here. No other way to describe it. The back yard is a lake. The carpets are leopard-spotted with muddy dog prints. We are single-handedly keeping the Redlands Chem Dry in business. If it was snowing, I'd be out on my snow shoes or X-country skis by now. I do miss schussing around this time of year ( Read more... )

According to my neurologist, the EEG shows that I not only have a brain, but it is chugging along just fine. The few problems I have been having are minor, and mostly caused by meds and age. The meds I can change. The rest I can deal with. Whew!

Apparently one of my koi had babies at some point, because there are two small fish out there I don't recognize. Unless they're falling from the sky, but I doubt that. Not two. One is a nondescript yellow white with a black spot on its side. The other has an orange head and tail, and dark silver in the middle. He could be a keeper ( Read more... )

Back from my EEG, sleep deprived and with gunk in my hair, but none the wiser until the neurologist reads the whatever. Not until next month! Not worried, just curious.

Up indecently early today. I'm having an EEG at 5pm and I have to be tired enough to sleep while they have me wired up. Since I can't have any caffeine for 12 hours previous I got up at 4 am so I could have an hour of coffee drinking before I go clean. You have to have your priorities, after all ( Read more... )

I have a love hate relationship with Daylight Savings Time. I hate the shortening of the days. It was almost dark at 5 last night. But I love waking up an hour early and watching the sky brighten outside. I meditated with a single candle, made coffee, had breakfast, caught up on my mail, and it's not even 7 yet. It's raining gently outside. A good ( Read more... )

I never thought I could love another electronic device as much as I do my iPhone, but then I met the new generation Kindle. First it was the cute commercials. Then it was the gateway drug Kindle app on my phone. I snapped and asked for one for my birthday, and it was love at first sight. The crisp text and illustrations, the easy-to-use controls, ( Read more... )

Well, I've had a wonderful birthday. Spent the morning noodling around the new generation Kindle Doug gave me, and downloading Josh Lanyon's latest, Blood Heat. Gave myself the afternoon off and went knitting at the Yarn Deli. I'm on square four of twenty on my Aran afghan. Was taken out for sushi and sake for supper, read lots of much appreciated ( Read more... )

A strange quiet has settled around me. I'm getting almost no email, no phone calls, no posts on my FB. My characters weren't even speaking to me yesterday. Must be the stars.

According to an article in today's Slate.com:

Posted Friday, July 16, 2010 - 11:50am ( Read more... )