"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -Andrew S. Tanenbaum (via quotrss)

Tonight I went out to the least happening place, had a quiet meal, and finished a book written by a guy I went to highschool with. I love it--it has the best horrible stories ever ( Read more... )

it seems longer. Apparently have 99 messages to catch up on, wacky.

it's been a while, how are all of you? I'm not reading LJ much right now, but maybe I'll get back into the swing of it. I just wanted to tell everybody that I finished recording Eight Cousins, by Louisa May Alcott for LibriVox, and I'm sure I feel fairly spiffy about that.

I'm more seriously looking for a job, but I nothing has really tempted me so ( Read more... )

Note to self: prednisone is a drug. do not send "beer" mail out no matter how much it seems like a good idea, or how sane your're feeling about it. I miss you, and I love you all ( Read more... )

I cannot do it. I have three pairs of good everyday glasses now (thanks to zennioptical.com), plus two frivolous pairs of shades, but I can not make myself throw away the old glasses that are so bad that it pushed me, in my straightened circumstances, to purchase cheap eyeglasses over the internet. They're awful. They're bad for my eyes. They're ( Read more... )

I need deeply  personal information about some of your private moments....Poll All about the feet

I knit a bootie! a wee bitty bootie! it is too cute! Technically, it's a sock, but so what? hopefully, I'll make another ( Read more... )

Today I have mostly gardened. Last week sometime we got a rototiller and churned up a long, narrow strip. (I don't like square plots that much--I can't reach in from the edge of a row more than 18" or so, and I like to have a lot of room between to plunk my ass down in ( Read more... )

A month or two ago, I stumbled upon librivox.org, which is turning public-domain books into audio recordings. Like project gutenberg, out loud.
(I also stumbled into distributed proofreaders, which work to prepare texts for project gutenberg, and they're totally cool too, but I have been enjoying recording more than proofreading.)

Here's a link to my ( Read more... )

So, I have graduated from college. and my brother's kidney cancer has recurred, and he's going into the hospital on Tuesday for interleukin 2 treatment, which is so nasty they test you three ways from sunday to see if you're healthy enough for it. he is! He doesn't have any symptoms from his Multiple Pulmonary Nodules, he just went in for a ( Read more... )