It's been a funny old week. I was sick for most of the early part of it, in that annoying not-really-sick-but-also-not-well-enough-to-be-normal kind of way. So not in bed or anything, but hacking and coughing and struggling to breathe with physical exertion etc. I felt like a kid recovering from a nasty childhood disease - that phase after chicken ( Read more... )

Dan's off again. California this week, home at the weekend, back to California the week after. Working both Easter Friday and Easter Monday ( Read more... )

I went to Gulf Wars, and had a pretty good time. It was hot, and humid, and there were fire-ants which decided to come up under my tent, but that is pretty much all the bad points ( Read more... )

Today a friend took me to a Mexican restaurant/bar and I had pretty decent carnitas and very good margaritas ( Read more... )

Today was pretty awesome, despite being kind of horrid body-wise. I was sore and pathetic today, which sucked, but a friend came over and hung out with me, I got a bunch of sewing done, and the weather was fantastic for the early months of the year in Ohio (55! Sunshine! Blue sky! Still warmish in the evening! Dear God, I just realised, I have no ( Read more... )

I'm in Canada this week. This happens with fair regularity nowadays, and I'm afraid I've gotten a bit blase about it. "Oh, yes, Canada again ( Read more... )

Today was a beautiful and sunny day, and I had the sunroof open as I drove to the gym, with my music up *quite loud ( Read more... )

I am giving no prizes for guessing that today was a hard day for me. The anniversary of the quakes brought up a lot of things. I know I'm not alone in that, but this is my space, and my head, and I have only my experiences ( Read more... )

For roughly the next thirty-six hours, I'm going to know exactly where I was and what was happening to and around me, hour by hour, a year ago. And then I won't anymore. It's a very odd feeling, to add to a small collection of other odd feelings I'm curating about the quake and surrounding events ( Read more... )

I'm drunk on plum wine, and I'm pretty happy. Tonight I made okonomoyaki, and fed it to people at my house and then I went to a movie and it was fun ( Read more... )