A quick trip to the vet yesterday to make sure that the "rash" Simon has had wasn't something serious.  After dumping out all the money from my pocketbook, I was able to find out:  it's not serious; he is even bigger than I realized (at 34 freakin pounds, he is actually TWO of my sister's smallest adult girls); he is still very shy ( Read more... )

Taking a break has been valuable in at least one way:  the thing I've missed the most is the work I often avoid the hardest.  Writing.  When I won't let myself write, it calls to me ( Read more... )

Or off week, what-have-you.  I'm taking the rest of the week as down time ( Read more... )

Okay, some of it was maybe boring to others.  John found and then retrieved a rocking chair from freecycle, a somewhat dirty and rickety white wooden rocker.  The dirt came off.  Glue and magic shored up the rickety.  Then he ordered cushions from the internet, and I have a comfy chair!  I like that guy John ( Read more... )

Some people are weird, part elebenty-billion ( Read more... )

We planned to play a practice session with Bob and Vince, but I wasn't feeling well and we weren't in synch with Vince's weekend plans, so instead we rearranged the basement storeroom.  I'm cool with that.  The task needed to be done, and we'll play soon.

So I'm sort of thinking about plans.  We have a lot of plans this year.  We plan to buy this ( Read more... )

Okay, we finally have a tournament on the horizon, the tiny Bethesda Collins division ( Read more... )

Why do I gotta be always soul-searching?  Why can't I just pick/follow/take a path, a road?  There's this novel project I'm working on.  I love this project.  But I ask myself every week or so if it's important enough to do.  Why do something if it isn't important, or Important ( Read more... )

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Ten pounds of rice doesn't fit in a 13x9 cake pan, so I grabbed another cake pan from under the cabinet and put the rest in that.  (We'd needed room in the freezer, and rice needs to warm up in air after freezing or it gets moldy.  Household tips from Marsh ( Read more... )