well, mostly defunct, I guess.

I got married. And I had a baby. It's her first birthday on Tuesday! I am an excellent 1880s first baseman. Now you're all caught up.

okay, it's the day before the Nike Women's Half Marathon, which I have done the last three years with Suzy. This year she is unavailable due to pregnancy and general laziness, and the person who was supposed to take over her entry bailed on me last week, so I am in principle going alone. I haven't done a training run since May and I'm about ( Read more... )

Last Wednesday, I took my car to the train to the plane to another plane to a car to a train to another train to a bus to a trolley, and at the end of that I was on a Swiss Alp. Now I am home. I'll write more about the trip later, probably, but here are the pictures:

Switzerland

whee!

I live in what is supposedly one of the greatest loci of intelligent people in the world, in the center of Silicon Valley, where the brilliant inventors converge to develop the ideas that will carry us into the future.

So sometimes it's good to go into the Palo Alto Safeway and see a little reminder that there are dumb people everywhere:


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Dad and Andi came out and looked at condos with me.  We decided that nothing that we saw was quite perfect for my needs, and rather than feeling rushed to find something I would rent for a little while and check again in a few months when maybe I'd have more money saved up or know more about what my life status would be.  I was trying to find ( Read more... )

oh yeah, I never wrote this up ( Read more... )

at some point I'll write the day 5 update, but right now is not that time. it's been a long week.

but I got all my pictures together and organized and captioned. they are at http://picasaweb.google.com/wilykatenator/OneBrickNewOrleans02.

I haven't forgotten about the blog, but I'm finally feeling like I have enough energy that I can go out at night and I have found a bunch of entertaining people to do it with ( Read more... )

overslept a little, got a quick breakfast, and headed out to the work site for day 2. We were a little ahead of schedule and thought we might get done today. Most of the remaining work was in the rafters/attic or at the tops of the walls, so I spent most of the day with my arm above my head and/or on a ladder. My shoulder is tired. Also I got ( Read more... )

playing Taboo, and I gave the clue "The 'blank' Falcon, Star Wars." My entire team just stared at me and then started guessing random colors. I couldn't think of another hint other than "You can't be serious."