A fun little meme janked from skibinskaya. I only took one thing I already knew.

Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at wikipedia.org, and pick three interesting events, two births, and one death.

Three Events:
1842: Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long. (And thank GOD for that!)

1867: Alaska is ( Read more... )

This is a great interview.

I'm tempted to post excerpts, but the whole thing is so good, I don't want to highlight any one part over another.

So I ranted a few days ago about unnecessary "I'm going to get hate mail" intros to benign topics, and the outpouring of support that always accompanies them, after reading seven or eight such blog posts.

And I told MamaQ that the one that tipped me into rant mode was Dooce "admitting" she let her kid cry itself to sleep.

Well, damn.Though a ( Read more... )

1: Thanks to all who posted on dessert. Geah, I never knew blood pudding was a dessert. I thought it was like Yorkshire pudding, which you eat with gravy. I guess it is also served with jam, though. And I never would have guessed it had ties to Easter, as I thought that was more of an autumn food, made shortly after hog butchering. But I don't ( Read more... )

So, I've been tapped to make dessert for Easter dinner with friends this year. I can't imagine dessert will be all that big a deal after 7 metric tons of Cadbury eggs, peanut butter eggs, Whopper eggs, etc. etc., but I'm committed to doing it ( Read more... )

Spent the morning participating in a community cleanup of Balls Bluff Battlefield. All the B-Lists picked up branches and sticks. Even Junior got in on the act, and well he should have, being as how he is goaded into doing this all the time at home.

Spent the afternoon putting together a screened-in gazebo thingie. I think we'll have somewhere ( Read more... )

In ranting to raphaela today on assorted items (Why do people say “try and do” when they mean “try to do”? The dog’s voice on Blues Clues grates after a while. I’m hungry. Why is the sun in my eyes? Etc. etc.) it came up that I was having a negative reaction to random blogs I ran across ( Read more... )

Thanks so much to everyone who wrote me about this over the last couple days. It meant a lot, and I'm sorry I didn't respond individually, but time got away from me.
( In memoriam )

I was in my first job out of college, in my first live-in relationship, renting my first house with a yard ( Read more... )

...because that's just my way of saying that I love you ( Read more... )