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- still no knitting bag.
+ started a fun shawl in blue/purple Kauni yarn to console myself. Won't work for Mom's b-day, but I'm enjoying it ( Read more... ) -
Wah.
I lost my knitting bag. I know I last had it in the pre-concert warmup on NYE. I called Benaroya Hall security and he looked for it, but it's not in the lost and found and he didn't see it in the warmup space. I suppose I might have brought it downstairs and left it backstage, but I think then it would have gone to lost-and-found, too ( Read more... ) -
awww
Recently we bought a huge carton of goldfish crackers rather than the usual bags, so we've been giving them to Pip in a bowl. Yesterday he brought his bowl to wrog and said "I want sixteen goldfish daddy" (to which, whoa). So they went into the kitchen where wrog dutifully counted out 16 fish. Pip looked at the bowl and how full it was (or wasn't), looked ( Read more... ) -
Pip update
So, I had his parent-teacher conference today. They have a non-traditional report card system, measuring various skills and behaviors on a couple of different scales. He scored at grade level in two areas: math and music. Significantly below grade level in PE. Yeah, he's our kid. He was in between on most other things ( Read more... ) -
Madrona musings
Registration for the Madrona Fiber Arts winter retreat starts this Monday morning. kathrynt have decided we really want to do class(es) this year. Of course many I want to take are offered at the same time, and I don't think I can realistically do four full days of classes, so I'm dithering a lot.
( Behind the cut, nattering about which ones. ) -
interests meme thingy
(from toad_hall)
Alexander Zemlinsky: Austrian composer around the turn of the century (19th-20th, that is). Slightly older than Mahler. If I'd stayed in musicology, I probably would have done my dissertation on him and then gone on to be the U.S. expert on Zemlinsky (as far as I know, there still isn't one). Wrote some nice lieder, some sweeping orchestral ( Read more... ) -
chocolate cupcakes
I have what's probably going to be my definitive chocolate cupcake recipe. Vanilla still needs some tweaking, but these are really flavorful and moist. I baked them Friday night for Lillian's birthday and they're just getting stale today.
Adapted slightly from the chocolate coconut cupcakes in Tish Boyle's The Cake Book.
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augh
Yesterday the power cord for my MacBook Pro broke. This is the second one in about a year. It was getting a bit loose and Wm pulled at it and that was once too often. So we hit the Apple store. No, they don't have one. Nor do any of the other Apple stores in the Seattle area. Nor do any of the non-Apple major mac dealerships. And the online Apple ( Read more... ) -
the career thing
1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/
(login redacted, see http://wendymr.livejournal.com/40218.html for more)
4. Post the top N results.
#s 11 and 30 are the closest to what I've actually made any money at the past few years.
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lessons learned
We finally located my smartmedia card reader, only to discover that it and my laptop are unable to talk to each other. Nobody cares enough about this product any more to have drivers that work beyond Mac OS 10.1, and since I have one of the Intel-based MacBook Pros, I can't run classic. The workarounds are running windows emulation or using a ( Read more... )