I always dread change. I don't mind the change itself, usually, but the unnameable fears pull at me. So, my last day of office work is Friday, and then I need to write up a manual, and that's all the magazine work I'm signed up for ( Read more... )

so, with my new windows xp laptop, I'm once again in the world of find-your-own software. It's been years since I had to decide what to use! It's not as much fun this time. :) If there are any programs you installed and know and love that I might as well, could you drop me a line?

I am so vain.

Reading a book this morning (Bangkok Tattoo), or maybe last night, I was struck by the idea that my struggle is between control and opportunity. which really just coalesces down to control, because what else do you want opportunity for?

And pride, of course.

I wanna get a bikerack for my hatchback stationwagon. there seems to be a couple of choices: bell has a two bike rack for $50, and some other company (bones?) has a two-bike rack for $115 (and a three bike rack for $135). Does it make any difference which one I get? Is there a pool of bike-rack knowlege out there I can draw upon? :)

I want to have a tea party, and Saturday looks good for me, can any of you make it, say around 4pm? I'll certainly have tea and scones, and maybe some other stuff too. Hats and gloves optional! :)

Ugh. or actually, rowr! I had the most awful cold last week, which vanquished two large boxes of kleenex and something in excess of two gallons of orange juice, before it succumbed to my mighty immune system, yay. It turned the corner Wednesday night (I swear I saw a bright white light! ok, it was a fuzzy white haze, but still), so I trundled off ( Read more... )

Or whatever! It's been a while since I've had people over to my place, and saturday night seems like a good time to break the ice again, so to speak. Please come tomorrow evening, if you can, and let us find out if this disparate band of conformists (ha ha) can still keep one another adequately entertained. You too! And, you, I'm sorry you can't ( Read more... )

A friend of mine is getting married in Oct (let's wish him joy! :) and it's going to be a quaker marriage ceremony. There was an insert with the invite explaining the customs, and they do sound nice in most respects, let me paraphrase (because I don't want to type the whole thing in ( Read more... )

Tonight I'm going to sewing circle, and taking my completed or almost completed quilt tops for show and tell. And I'm doing laundry, and shopping for my camping trip this weekend, and probably cooking some too ( Read more... )

while I was out to dinner with Erik this week, he mentioned (i think) that he was really struck when he realized that what what buddhists are referring to when they talk about suffering is this: wanting things to be different. And it seemed so simplistic a referrer for the whole rage from unease to torment, but at the root of it, it's true. I'm not ( Read more... )