Physical went fine, though apparently I am now in the age group in which questions about the state of my bowels are routine :-( All numbers are excellent, the annual booby squish is due next month, we spent a bit of time chatting about how well either of us was holding up - her nanny has gone on to the next thing, and she's working half days until ( Read more... )

P. needed a haircut. He had been trying for three weekends in a row to get to the barber shop when M. was actually open, but that's part of the joy of living on an island - you get what you get. (In this case, M. had been spending time with his grandchildren on one weekend, and attending his brother-in-law's funeral on the other.) But today P. made ( Read more... )

P.'s boss told him "You need to take some time off before your brain goes poof. Yeah, knock off a couple hours early on Friday, but seriously, vacation is your friend". After talking with DS, P. and I decided to go to Bellevue the day before our drive north to the Eileen Ivers concert and spend the night, leave from there in the morning and take ( Read more... )

From the latest mailing from the yoga studio:

deepen into resourceOkay, the full sentence is "Both are opportunities to slow down, deepen into resource, and cultivate the resilience needed to show up in service", but - what does that mean?!? How did those words put themselves together in someone's head, and then wind up on the page ( Read more... )

They say science fiction never really predicts the future, and yet Captain Picard says “tea, earl grey, hot” in that meticulous way observed only in someone with a slightly unusual accent who’s finally figured out the exact cadence and phrasing their voice activated smart-whatever actually understands and suspects if they allow their tone to vary ( Read more... )

- please let them not go poof, but! I am over at dreamwidth under the same name, and I've got all of you I could spot added there. If not, let me know!

(Oh, fiddlesticks, I've got to work out how to copy over my icons. Oh, wait, I can have more icons!)

From today's Seattle Times:

Some [Puget Sound residents] claim that rather than using seasons ( Read more... )

This, specifically. DS's response was "Of course they did"; his time with the ravens at the aviary was split pretty evenly on the question of who was training whom ( Read more... )

By which I mean it is cold; I have had to move my potted bay tree into the entryway. We have a dusting of snow; Goddaughter K. had a power outage and couldn't get out of the driveway on the first go, and Camano Island (in between Whidbey, where she lives, and the mainland) got six inches ( Read more... )

. . . which was the mental question that tossed me right out of a LOTR fic at the beginning of the second chapter, when the viewpoint character mentioned the "Right of Return" with regard to a dual US/Irish citizen moving to Ireland (citizen by descent? I'm guessing? The author kinda glided over that point, along with most of the other things ( Read more... )

It's not pounding down, but it's very good to see; heaven knows the aquifer could do with recharging. The water quality here is 40, with the US average around 55 (EPA watershed measurement): we absolutely filter what comes out of the tap, as island water has a presence regardless of what happens at the plant ( Read more... )