We're here and the whole place is wonderful. There's a hammock out on the veranda of the house I'm staying at and next to it grows a tree of tart little mamones chinos. I love them already, for all that they're hard to eat. And a little further away there are great papaya and mango and orange trees. And we drove for about four or five hours through ( Read more... )

I just want one thing for Christmas this year. This.


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Yay! My pretty silver car is now all registered in my name. Thus, the time of naming is upon us. I have narrowed the names down to two options, both of which are inspired by my fandoms as I am a GIANT DORK (please try to hold back your gasps of surprise and disbelief).

Poll Name...That...Car!Let me know ( Read more... )

So, a few weeks ago, I drove mentia999 to Tufts Animal Hospital to pick up her cat, Bagheera (he's fine, just a little radioactive from his thyroid treatment). On the ride out, the conversation turned to cars and driving and mentia999 explained that she and her husband had decided they didn't need two cars and were planning to sell one of theirs. Later that evening ( Read more... )

quish took me to her range today and taught me how to shoot. She showed me her .22 and her 9mm and this old guy at the range loaned me his Colt .22 revolver for a few shots. It was...umm...awesome. (and yes, I totally pretended I was Emily Elizabeth while I was shooting his gun. A much less-awesome Emily, but still ( Read more... )

On the way to the Brzquishski's last night to watch the Leonids, shogunhb was remarking that he couldn't see the 'W' that represented Cassiopeia. Being as I'd never seen Cassiopeia or knew what the constellation looked like, I then said that I wasn't sure what the ancients (damn you, mesmerising, I nearly wrote that with a capital 'A') were smoking, because I couldn' ( Read more... )

No. Really.

Narrowing down why juldea is awesome like an awesome thing would take faaaaaar too long, but I would like to point out two really great things she's done for me recently.

*Over a month ago, I got a quick email from her asking if I had a copy of this Jane Austen CYOA novel. I said no, I had a completely different Jane Austen CYOA book. ( Read more... )

shogunhb took me to the circus yesterday evening. Whee! I had two bags of cotton candy which cost and obscene ten dollars a piece. Each bag came with a hat (both were given away to nearby children) and three layers of cotton candy: blue, yellow, and pink. Even though I love both cotton candy and lemon-flavored candies, I found the lemon cotton candy to be ( Read more... )

What's better than coffee shops in bookstores? Coffee shops in bookstores that print books while you wait

It's not elegant and it's not sexy - it looks like a large photocopier - but the Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented the printing press more than 500 years ago and made ( Read more... )

Disturbed rocked so hard. We were pissed because Lacuna Coil was halfway thru their set by the time we got in. WTF? What happened to starting with some lame-ass filler band? Concert was also some all day thing. Wish there'd been some kind of communication about that. There were two other bands that played that I didn't know (Chimera and Killswitch ( Read more... )