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Tomorrow morning I depart on the first stage of our family vacation across this country and into the next one. Farewell to all of you, have a wonderful few weeks, and I'll see those of you in Albany upon my return. I leave you with a book recommendation and review:
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We interrupt your regularly scheduled activities to bring you a moment of spaceship-related glee
NASA has just launched a satellite--two satellites, actually; one designed to map the surface of the Moon in detail, and the other to crash-land on the Moon in an attempt to find water. The reason for this? It's a first step toward sending humans back to the Moon, possibly by 2020. Yes! We're not giving up on our space program! We're going to ( Read more... ) -
Across the Universe
I'm distracting myself from imminent standardized testing with movie reviews. Also Photoshop, but the results of that are on my other computer.
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Won't someone please think of the grammar?
Trader Joe's has removed the grammatically correct "15 items or fewer" sign. Admittedly the new sign has a pirate hand holding a cutlass, but in my book, proper grammar ranks higher than cutlasses. (But maybe not very much higher.) -
Just a note to let you know I'm still alive
I've been terrible at communicating with anyone lately, I know, but in my defense I've been busy trying to move and get about fifteen million different things in order. Anyway, I'm back in Albany, although I'm about to leave for the Quaker Center in the Santa Cruz hills. Because inevitably, the second anyone from meeting hears I'm back in the Bay ( Read more... ) -
Daylight Savings Time is supposed to mean it's spring, right?
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The spandex is also crucial, apparently
I've been reading superhero comics, because they are clearly a vital component of childhood or modern culture or whatever, of which I have been deprived until now due to my habit of gravitating toward the books with lots of words in them. Thank goodness for housemates and the local library. In the course of this reading, I have learned (among ( Read more... ) -
Never a dull moment
I think I've done more stuff in the ten days or so I've been home than I did in the past few months. Most of it has been fun stuff, but still, it's kept me very busy. I like it ( Read more... ) -
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I am home! We managed to leave Portland just before the snowstorm got really bad, and outran it all the way home. Possibly knowledge of the storm moving in behind us was what inspired us to get home so quickly; the trip took almost exactly twelve hours from the time we left downtown Portland. And that's including a stop for dinner in Redding, ( Read more... ) -
The intrepid explorers set forth...
It's been snowing on and off all week in Portland. There's several inches of snow on the ground outside right now, and I keep looking out at it, seeing how different our familiar backyard looks, noticing the differences between the freshly-fallen snow, the day-old snow covered with pine needles, and today another layer of fresh snow. For places ( Read more... )