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Quiet day
ETA: Anyone hear from elfreda today? Her post from last night has me a bit worried.
Me: Didn't sleep well last night - too many sirens. Something must have happened somewhere nearby. I tell you, living near a fire station is a mixed blessing.
Home Sweet Home: It's a mess, as usual. The power went out last night, and still hadn't come back by the ( Read more... ) -
To all the ladies
Happy International Women's Day!
С восьмым марта!
The Russians do it right - the boys bring flowers and chocolate to the girls. :)
Здесь в США восьмой марта не празднуют. Вам россиянкам повезло! -
Cross-posting: Free book by Neil Gaiman!
Thought you other Bookhounds might appreciate this. From Neil Gaiman's website:
FREE! BOOK!
To celebrate the seventh birthday of the blog, we held an online poll to find out which book you thought we should put up for free.
The overwhelming winner was AMERICAN GODS. It will be up for a month.
Click here to go and read it. And tell your friends ( Read more... ) -
Translation of that Pskov find article
In case anyone hasn't seen a translation of the article on the Pskov find (from the Pskov Archaeological Center), here you go: Fabric Treasure
by E. Zubkova, O. Orfinskaya, D.S. Likhacheva. The translation is by Sofya la Rus in the Middle Kingdom. Her website is an amazing resource for anyone interested in Russian stuff - she does a lot of ( Read more... ) -
It's almost that time of year...
No, not Halloween, and not the holiday season. I'm talking about National Novel Writing Month! What could be more fun than writing a terrible, painful, unintelligible 50,000-word novel in 30 days ( Read more... ) -
Done. Done done done.
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If it's not one thing....
Crap, and now the siren at the fire station down the street has been sounding for the past 15 minutes. Don't those things have an automatic shut-off??http://myelvesaredifferent.blogspot.com/2007/05/blog-like-its-end-of-world-bliteotw -
Construction nightmare
Gah. So the construction project on the bus mall has finally reached my block, and it's practically impossible to find a way from Point A (my office at 6th and Harrison) to Point B (the bus stop on 2nd and Main). They've cordoned off SW 6th from St. Mary's HS to the PCAT building, and every day for the past two weeks I've listened to the bam-bam- ( Read more... ) -
Sport of Kings
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Tourism info - San Fran to Portland
So, my best friend who lives in France is coming to visit over the summer. She and her husband want to fly into San Francisco and travel up the coast (Rt. 101) to Portland. They will be traveling with their daughter, who will be about a year old. They plan to take a couple of days to make the trip ( Read more... )