Back again after a long hiatus, and catching up on the people who are still here and not gone to Facebook hell.

Reading Thomas Piketty's Capital. So far, it's a really good read, as was Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World.

And now off to knit.

Don't get up you hopes that I'll post more. I'm just checking to see if this is still alive ( Read more... )

Ah, the breathless excitement that is my life ( Read more... )

We're having a bit of a storm at the moment; I can't see the parking lot through the rain right now. The lightning has already passed, but we've still got a bit of thunder ( Read more... )

Our usual Monday night thing was cancelled due to illness (one of our hosts caught the Plague) so I spent last night at home. What did I do? I fell asleep. Slept through two phone calls and a text about blueberries ( Read more... )

Hooray for friends who know how to fix computers! This silly old thing is twice as fast now.

I just have to make sure my data plan is unlimited before I burn through my retirement.

And they're circling the building. Maybe we'd better check the offices on the top floor.

Where is everybody? My friends page is curiously uncluttered with new posts. Everybody out doing President's Day stuff ( Read more... )

I went out this morning and picked up coffee for both my mother and myself, at the Starbuck's just across the Turnpike, right downtown here in OR. I don't go through the drivethrough. I rather enjoy going inside and looking around the store; they've got shiny stuff, and sometimes I can pick up something for a gift. Besides, it's a fight to get ( Read more... )

For some reason, the only thing that works on my Livejournal blog today is the 'post new entry' button. It won't do anything if I click on 'friends'. Hmm. And I so wanted to see what everyone else is up to ( Read more... )