Just wanted to report in and say that, despite the tornadoes in Nashville, me and mine are fine. This church with its roof torn off is about half a mile away from our house, but all we got were high winds and rain. We feel pretty darn lucky. We're supposed to get more rain today, but hopefully it will only make us soggier, and not bring more wind ( Read more... )

Since I last did any extensive updating at LibraryThing (over three years ago!), they've switched things up a bit. Now there are these "Common Knowledge" fields for the works which contain things like the publication dates, editors, characters in the books, alternate titles, and other tidbits of useful information. It's all nifty, and I'd like to ( Read more... )

( Weight loss stuff )

I was going to make a meaningful update, but then coreopsis and instrumentality posted this meme and I remembered that months ago I had carefully shuffled my music and written it up but never posted it. So, here it is, the first lines iPod meme ( Read more... )

Forgive my spam, but I have a metric ton of Dreamwidth codes from my various accounts. I know a lot of people are very unhappy with Livejournal's latest fiasco, so if you're thinking of checking out Dreamwidth, here's an opportunity to do so. Please feel free to pass the codes along to friends and so on.

For me, I was actually going to opt to use ( Read more... )

I am looking at e-readers, and am intrigued by the new Kindle, both for its smallness and its (relative) cheapness. My main purpose in buying an e-reader is to read fanfic without having to lug my laptop around, so my main concern is the ability to transfer TXT, PDF and HTML files to the device and be able to read them ( Read more... )

The Purse Meme, most recently seen from 51stcenturyfox.

The Purse, fully contained:


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Things I have learned in the last 24 (or so) hours:

( Or, as Archie Goodwin once said: There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. )

I am a genius! And also, amazingly stupid ( Read more... )

Since I peppered you with all the bad stuff in the winter and spring, I thought it would only be fair to share at least three awesome things that have happened to me lately:

( Three Good Things: My Vacation, Weight Watchers, and Parenting Validation )