David is heading to Boston next weekend to join the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's fundraising walk. Care to donate? Hop on over to his fundraising page.

David has spent much time the past few months, in conjunction with the talented karawynn, designing a Brooklyn pride t-shirt. It's now available for ordering at Zazzle ... stop by and show some borough pride :)

no access to your money and a notice saying "oops, we just got shut down by the FDIC".

I am CURSED when it comes to bank accounts.

edit: yes, I'm insured and will get my money back, and yeah, I even kinda knew this was coming, or at least that something nasty was likely to happen to Netbank. I won't lose any cash. It's just going to be a hassle.

As mentioned earlier, I'm an atrocious speller, a fact carefully disguised in my professional life with spellcheck. (Before I changed it, I had "atrotious" and "disgused.") Tonight, I ran again into my nemesis word, a word I not only can't spell, I so thoroughly can't spell it I can't use Google, m-w.com, dictionary.com or any other source I could ( Read more... )

I'll be scooting my envelope in at the last minute (the voting deadline is tomorrow's postmark), but I just finished reading through the Rhysling anthology and figuring out my votes. (The Rhyslings are the annual award for the best science fiction/fantasy/horror poetry. Kind of the poetry version of a combined Hugo and Nebula ( Read more... )

Tomorrow at Ungodly Early AM we fly back to NYC. Our last day in Dallas dawned drizzly, killing off our plans to go explore. Instead, we ordered breakfast in and lazed around.


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Saturday dawned on a disagreement on our morning itinerary. This week turns out to be the opening of the Oklahoma State Fair, and it's located just a few minutes from the hotel where we were staying. I wanted to go for a few hours -- we never went to state fairs when I was a kid. This is exciting new stuff! David, who went to the Shepparton Show ( Read more... )

Friday was our longest day of planned driving -- six hours -- so we got up early, had another excellent breakfast, and hit the car to leave the B&B and Kansas City and head to Oklahoma City. The drive was uneventful except for the rest stop in Kansas. It was in the middle of nothing. Long, flat plains everywhere, with a few building plunked in the ( Read more... )

Vegetables. I need vegetables. Other than the occasional lettuce leaf on a sandwich, I don't think I've had anything green in days. Since crossing the Kansas state line I've only eaten barbeque and starch.

We started off with a great breakfast at our B&B (waffles for me, french toast for David, yum), then set off for the Negro League Baseball ( Read more... )

Before departing Omaha, I had a special tea errand to run. We headed off into the land of chain malls in search of The Tea Trove, where I encountered owner and ex-NYC dweller Kori Miller. We loaded up on breakfast scones, drinks (genmaicha for me, iced chocolate for David) and loose tea ...


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