Today was my last day of work at Artefactual. I'm still processing how I feel about it ( Read more... )

My other big success recently was teaching an intermediate level git tutorial for PyLadies.

I've been attending Vancouver's PyLadies pretty much since it started, because I like Python & other lady programmers. When the original co-organizer stepped down after a year, I (and several other ladies) became Co- and Assistant Organizers. During a ( Read more... )

やった！ I finally finished RTK-mod!

RTK is Remember the Kanji, a common textbook for learning meanings and how to write the 2042 kanji needed to be literate in Japanese. RTK-mod is a truncated deck that removes a bunch of the uncommon/useless kanji, leaving ~1780 ( Read more... )

More pixels have been spilled talking about the election than should have been, and I'm going to add to it ( Read more... )

I had a delightful if perhaps over-busy weekend ( Read more... )

Gramma's funeral was on Sunday, almost a week ago now ( Read more... )

Gramma died yesterday evening. I had phoned my parents to chat that afternoon and had planned on sending them a list of times this week when I'd be home and available for 'the call', and Dale and I were halfway through watching a particularly good episode of DS9 ("The Die is Cast") when my phone rang ( Read more... )

I visited Gramma this weekend in hospice, where she'd been moved on Friday. Fortunately, with the move most of the family drama seems to have subsided (or maybe the problematic member was just away that day). I'm glad I went - I got to see Gramma again and have a chance to say any last words, though I struggled to come up with any besides "I love ( Read more... )

I'm pretty excited that two of my favorite authors are starting serials within a month of each other. Ursula Vernon is writing (well, wrote and is posting chapter-by-chapter) Summer in Orcus, a fascinating fairy tale with an overprotected girl and Baba Yaga and I haven't read far enough to find out what else. M.C.A. Hogarth is writing Kherishdar' ( Read more... )

Life has been a little nuts lately ( Read more... )