Leaving me alone all day in a library with no patrons and a bag of truffles is a bad idea. Seriously, it's dead in here. If it weren't for Bing Crosby on the CD player I'd be asleep. Nobody wants to sue anybody the week of Christmas.

While Kirstyn was here, we watched our traditional Christmas movie, The Ref. Okay, not exactly Miracle on 34th ( Read more... )

Despite (or possibly because of) much media hype, it did not snow here. Just more rain, so our front yard is now a lake again ( Read more... )

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Back from a weekend in South Carolina visiting my sister-in-law and mother-in-law and very glad to be home. It was a lovely weekend in a lot of ways - Linda paid for us to stay at a bed and breakfast, the Red Horse Inn. We were in a nice cabin, though I wouldn't recommend it to animal rights activists as it had a hunting theme. No dead animals ( Read more... )

Everything is plodding along more or less normally. I think I'm going to bring Jonas over to IB12 for a couple of hours, so I need to make some baby garb. Robert says landsknecht, I say Viking. Perhaps we'll meet in the middle with multicolored, slashed up tunics. Or maybe not ( Read more... )

Just some random stuff because I haven't updated in ages.

If you like historical fiction set in the Middle Ages and aren't afraid of gritty realism, check out The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland. Her first book was a Medieval mystery, a noir sort of thing that I didn't really care for, but this had an interesting plot, dealing with Beguines, pagan ( Read more... )

Baby monitors are of the devil ( Read more... )

When you look at the nutritional information on the side of a box of microwave popcorn and read 0mg Cholesterol as OhmyGod Cholesterol ( Read more... )

Jonas was born yesterday at 4:55 pm. He weighed 7 lbs, 14 oz, and is 21 inches long and is doing great! Ellen is also fine. She's tired and not quite sure of what to do with her son, though the nurses at the hospital are great, giving a lot of good info. I love nurses - they exude this wonderful air of competence.

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