Next time I get the brilliant idea to leave the Park Slope area at any time, for any reason, will somebody please slap me?http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2007/11/21/2007-11-

But I can't blame insomnia, at least not tonight. I blame the fact that I've only been up for 13 hours. I could not get to sleep last night because a) the cat was sleeping in the middle of my bed and for some reason I elected to try to sleep in a position resembling that of a frog awaiting dissection rather than to move him, b) I was having some ( Read more... )

My needles came in! And they're so pretty! Now I can try the method described in the book elo_sf gave me, when, a year ago? two years ago? and make wool socks for the winter! I hope it works. I've made one wool sock with double-pointed needles, but I just can't seem to get used to them. I'm hoping this two circular method helps, because that one ( Read more... )

Waaah!

The only thing worse would have been if Mitch had died while trying to rescue a lost or straggling baby meerkat. Of course, it could still happen. Are we all masochists who watch this show?

My former roomies had a baby last night! He's healthy, and so are they! This is the couple that I usually describe as my favorite couple, the only couple whose relationship I have ever envied. Normally I'm not big on procreation, but in their case it's very hard to rile myself up into a fit of disapproval. The idea of there being a little ( Read more... )

What comes out of the kid's mouth sometimes astonishes me. He and I had been talking a little about the kitchen, beginning with whether his mother should request a new refrigerator since the current one is wasting energy, this leading to a discussion of food in the refrigerator and its appropriateness for his mother given her high cholesterol and ( Read more... )

Who knew the Bronx had the best beach in the city? Who knew that - I can think it, I can say it, but it's hard to write it - a Robert Moses creation could make me so happy ( Read more... )

So Tommy Glavine, my boy from Concord, MY pitcher, since almost every game I saw last season was pitched by him, in the cold, and rain, and a win - it was enough to make someone superstitious - is going for his 300th win tonight, in Milwaukee, of all places. It hit me sitting in Shea Stadium Saturday night that I wanted to be there. I decided ( Read more... )

or, "Hey, I found something good about East New York ( Read more... )

I think everyone should take a sick day just because it's raining out every now and then. After a lovely weekend in Boston, I simply could not motivate myself to go to work this morning, especially since it was pouring rain, which guaranteed me a bad commute since the Jackie Robinson Parkway always floods. I called in sick. I normally have no ( Read more... )