Today I have learned about pants and sewing machines. Jen bought a $15 handheld battery-operated sewing machine from Amazon, and decided that today she was going to hem many of her pants. So she did ( Read more... )

I can has the new Temeraire book, whee. Of course, I'm not gonna be getting around to reading it anytime soon, but yay dragon ( Read more... )

Verizon was nice enough to overnight a replacement modem, so we are back online. Even though they did send us a wireless router instead of the modem we previously had. So we disabled the wireless function and are using the AirPort Expresses like before. Heh. Setup wasn't that bad either ( Read more... )

Woe, I cannot see the pirate movie until tomorrow. Not only is there construction that means it takes at least 45 minutes to get to the theater (or at least that was how long the bus took the other day), it's graduation. So today would be a bad pirating day.

Instead, we went to the farmer's market (boo, no produce), and the used bookstore. Since lysimache ( Read more... )

Having finally gotten around to reading the official English translation of Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko, I thought I would post my thoughts on how it compares to the movieverse. It's really very different. I feel like the bookverse is much more fleshed out and morally ambiguous, but for reasons of coolness (and, okay, a couple shallow reasons ( Read more... )

I keep feeling like I should post, but then I say to myself, "Self, you haven't done anything cool enough to post about." So then I don't post for, like, a week ( Read more... )

The exciting excursion of today was to a used bookstore operating in an old mill. It's a pretty fun bookstore. Their slogan is up there in my subject line. And, yeah, they are kind of hard to find ( Read more... )

Frozen Marie Callender pie is very good. Except that I am impatient, so my piece of pie was more like plate of warm fruit filling with some crust. And Jen found an inch-long piece of thorny twig in her piece. Which is probably not good ( Read more... )

Let's see. Yesterday was a day of acquisitiveness. Went to the mall and returned a shirt and bought some corduroys at Old Navy, as I really like the ones I bought there a couple weeks ago and thought I should get a different color. Jen bought a bunch of clothing and, because she is the best girlfriend ever, will let me borrow it ( Read more... )

The weather this morning was excellent, until about 9:30. It was all foggy and overcast and temperatures were in the mid-60s. It was perfect. Then it had to go and get warm. Bah.

My copy of Wizards at War, the eighth (is it really that many now?!) of Diane Duane's Young Wizards books, arrived yesterday from Amazon ( Read more... )