My nephew turned 18 today. Time, it has flown ( Read more... )

I'm making chili for the first time since leaving Chicago. I know this, because when I had the idea I spent too much time trying to remember which of the four grocery stores in town sells the chopped up meat I use to make it ( Read more... )

Much better. Here ya go! Still NSFW.

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As you know by now, majea is going in for surgery tomorrow morning. To keep up on how she's doing and get any updates, we've set up a website ( Read more... )

( In his fort. )

Am I the last person to discover this? It's a bunch of screen shots of Hogwarts students' facebook and twitter accounts.

Hogwarts finally gets onlineAnd to save you the grief, click outside the screen to get back to the page with the other ones. Hermione's facebook made me laugh out loud. Honestly, I am so happy the internet didn't exist when I ( Read more... )

Not a great picture, but it gives the idea. This is the mountain near Lemon Glacier that you could see from my sister's bedroom windows back when we lived here. It's not until the termination dust hits all the mountains that I'm going to worry about snow. Oh, and it's termination as in the end of summer. At least that's my understanding.

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Not enough flour in the first fold, and took it out of the oven too soon. Also, need to find actual corn meal (or baking parchment) instead of whatever that was I used that smelled like popcorn as it baked. But it was tasty, and I gave half a loaf to the just out of high school guys across the hall who seemed pretty happy to get it ( Read more... )

I said something recently about how my relations with people who knew me years ago are different than how I am with people I've met in the last ten or fifteen years. (It's #3 on that page.) Last night I went to a poetry reading where the featured poet was a college friend of mine I hadn't seen since 1989 ( Read more... )

Sitting at the top of my mind, so I'm writing them down to get them out ( Read more... )