Yesterday's garage sale hunt was exceptional. The two of us crammed into her car armed with the Pennysaver, loose change, and a very rough working knowledge of the local area, and set off to find garage sales. We managed to catch more than half a dozen of them, not counting multi-family sales which drove the number of garages visited well past ( Read more... )

I am kicking off bookmash with a weekend contest. With prizes! Well, prize. Go, enter, be funny! jd3000, I am looking at you. :P ( Read more... )

I'm doing the radio tonight, which will be interesting, with the coughing and snuffling and hoarseness and all that. I mean, I'll do it, it just may not be pretty. Doesn't matter. They let Marian McPartland on the air, and she sounds like she died in a coal mine twenty years ago.

Finally finished all the summaries requested by etto, trinityday, bradmessner, tahmthelame, media_res, jd3000, and irked_indeed. The sheer number of spontaneously-generated plots made me want to cap it all off by writing a blurb for the back of an imaginary compilation of my imaginary stories, but really, enough is enough.

While I'm name-dropping, I spent part of today reading rachelmanija's memoir, which finally came ( Read more... )

Tonight on the radio I got to read this article about a car crash. A minivan swerved off a cliff and got hit by a train. Twice.

The horrible part was that the only place I ever hear the phrase "hit by a train" is while watching O Brother Where Art Thou, so every time that phrase appeared in the article--which they did a lot--I had to flashback to ( Read more... )

This week I volunteered at the radio twice, spent a few days finishing Tommyknockers (which I started approximately four years ago), watched some psychotic cartoons that my sister got me for Christmas, compiled almost enough Steelers songs for a full CD, chatted with the aforementioned sister, made ginger snaps, and listened to the Kiera Knightley/ ( Read more... )

Last night I made some voice recordings* for whydah, so I got a chance to mess around with my microphone. That thing makes a nice little recording. Then I read the first four minutes of Eleanor Druse because it was on hand, and that made a 3.5Mb mp3 with really decent sound. I'd do a podcast if I had the faintest idea what to talk about ( Read more... )

I need to really kick it into gear this weekend and clean the house in a dramatic way, so that next week isn't a nightmare. However, because of how fast they muddy the water, my turtles will continue to live in filth until the day before Thanksgiving, when my family arrives. Possibly even the day ofI'm cooking the turkey. Ph34r ( Read more... )

I read the news on the radio last night, which went very well. Do you know how hard it is to talk about porn in a dignified voice ( Read more... )

I made the most stupendous roast beef last night ( Read more... )