It appears I'm going to be busy. Particularly because I'm going to be making a cake for   Friday night's Book View Cafe party. See you there?

Kaffee Klatche - Book View Cafe - Vonda N. McIntyre, Jeffrey A. Carver, Brenda Clough, Nancy Jane Moore, Pagricia Nagle, Madeleine Robins

Thursday 13:00 - 13:45, 202A-KK1 (CC)

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Yes, there will be a BVC panel.

And yes, there will be a BVC party (on Friday night--watch the skies for info.

And there will be ribbons for the asking.


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... and suricattus roped me in this year. If you don't see me for a while, look for me under a pile of kale or something.

Within 24 hours of her surgery Emily was back to her usual self, a little puzzled by the addition of the t-shirt, and her digestive tract obviously dealing with the antibiotcs (verging on TMI here, so I shall Say No More), and wanting to play play play. Since she's on leash-walk-only until the stitches are out, she's itching for more activity than ( Read more... )

She had her annual tire-kicking and vaccination visit at the vet today. This timed out fortunately, because she tore open her side on a tree branch at the park the other day--not a big gash, but one I wanted looked at. So I took her in (in Becca's new second-hand-ready-to-drive-to-college car) and she had the exam and the shot, and then stayed over ( Read more... )

So yesterday afternoon, while Danny and I were seeing Mr. Holmes (perfectly lovely) Becca had taken her car and went off to the beach with a bunch of friends. Or tried to. Somewhere out in the Sunset district the Check Engine light came on, and just before the movie started, she called us to ask what to do. She seemed to think this was sort of an ( Read more... )

Last evening I heard another torn-metal crunch (not as loud as the last one, but loud) and, wiser this time, went to the front window, where I saw that on the far side of the San Jose/I-280 cut, someone coming off the highway had attempted to take the right off of San Jose onto Rousseau at just-off-the-interstate speeds and had plowed, instead, ( Read more... )

... there was an ad for Contac when I was a kid which featured a huge Marty Kroft puppet microbe menacing people as they tried to flee. The jingle included the line above ( Read more... )

So last night Danny and I were watching an old movie (Fury, with Spencer Tracy) when suddenly we heard a loud, torn-metal-and-crunching sound from what sounded like our back yard. Since our back yard is bounded by other back yards, it seemed unlikely that (short of a house collapsing) the sound could actually be issuing from that direction, but ( Read more... )

So at least two members of my family have ADHD diagnoses. They don't take medication for it--just knowing what is going on in their heads seems to give them an edge. I do not have such a diagnosis, but today, I swear to God, it's like my brain has the figets. I've managed to get stuff done, but if I'm watching a tutorial on CSS I keep having to ( Read more... )