I’ve had these two stories bookmarked to post here for a bit, so it seems past time for me to actually do it. The best new pain cures, with a focus on women Many women have a tough time finding…
Gadgetry – I have a digital leash again!
I has a phone! It’s tiny and thin and pretty. It was supposed to be able to take a mini-SD card so I could store music on it, but they lied. The Nokia also had a radio tuner, and this…
Lovely evening
Sam had to work very late tonight, dealing with a new phone system that was being installed at the office. The poor guy came in after 8:30! After that, though, we had a nice, totally relaxed evening. The three of…
Disappointed!
(I’m hearing Gary Oldman in The Fifth Element when I read the subject there. Yes, I probably could have found a sound clip and included it, but I’m counting on your imaginations and memories here.) Well, I finally got around…
Author Recommendation: Nicola Griffith
I read Griffith’s first novel, Ammonite, shortly after it came out. It was, for many years, the best first novel I’d ever read. I also read one of the Bending the Landscape anthologies she edited with Stephen Pagel, and it…
SBQ, Heat, Cell Phone
It’s been a while since I answered one of the Stitching Bloggers Questions. This week’s is Are you starting something new to celebrate the New Year or participating in “Guilt Free January?” If so, what are you planning on starting?…
Cold! Cold cold cold!
Our heat went out last night, so we woke up in a very, very cold house. I don’t care what you Yankees say, we had a hard freeze here, so it really was cold! There was snow on the car…
Malware Woes
A few weeks ago, my PC was somehow infected with some nasty thing that tried to turn it into a spambot via drive-by download. I had the current version of Symantec AntiVirus running, set to the absolute highest paranoia levels…
Further Prof of Insanity: Blog365
I got through NaBloPoMo, as ridiculous as it was to commit to posting at least once a day for a month. So of course that small success has led me, in a moment of more-than-usual-lunacy, to sign up for Blog365…
Movie Overdose
We’ve watched so many movies in the last few weeks that they’re all running together. We just finished The Transformers. Yesterday was Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (we’d seen that before, of course) and Catch Me If You Can.…