In my increasing frustration with my roommate (and her cat) and pondering next steps and the possibly of finding a new roommate, I came up with a short quiz to determine compatibility. For amusement purposes, I share--take the quiz to find out if you might be a compatible plant roommate ( Read more... )

So, my roommate drinks a lot of coke. She doesn't use the mycokerewards code thingies. Is there anything there worth saving them for? The site has enough flash that my old computer won't work with it.

A bit earlier this week I went up to visit my sister, who has a friend with several plum trees. As anyone who has had a plum tree knows, they're rather like zucchini. One tree makes more than you can use. Four trees is madness. So she was more than happy to have people come up to help remove some of the plums before they fell and rotted ( Read more... )

Just a really fascinating article--why and how praise can be a demotivator. (I suspect most of the people on my friends list have experienced this.)

http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/

Shorter summary of the work, but fewer details: http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_045221101.html

So, a couple weeks ago I went to a tatting convention in Spokane. I had a blast, as I generally do, and learned a lot of things, and spent a fair amount of time drooling at the vender's booths before deciding how to spend my budgeted ( Read more... )

Something my knitting friends in the PNW might be interseted in--a "knit shop hop". If nothing else, it's a nice list of yarn sources in the area.

http://www.lystour.com

You know you've got a fun fluffy sci-fi novel when the protagonist, a secret-service agent on a diplomatic mission, has a day in which he meets with three major players in the Empire's home planet politics, has his office destroyed by a bomb, and foils 6 different assassination attempts (not counting the bomb). And the action hasn't even really ( Read more... )

I am a
Snapdragon


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As many of you (e.g. anyone who has spent more than 5 minutes with me in the last couple years) know, I really want a house. With a yard. Unfortunately, I live in a place where the housing market laughs at people who want house, yard, and short commute for under $750,000 ( Read more... )

Turns out that in the morning my roommate was much more reasonable about the whole thing, and has taken down her post and send an apology e-mail to people who had already responded. (The fact that I sneakily opened her bedroom door so the cats could go cuddle with her seems to have helped her realize how very unhappy she (and they) would have been ( Read more... )