OK, this weather is getting RIDICULOUS. I am going to have to stand firmly by my theory that this is being caused by a callous galactic tyrant with weather-generating technology for his own amusement ( Read more... )

Well, I wanted to have all my writeups finished by today, but I still have about 12 left to go. But the good news is that they're all mostly short-ish ones! Probably, like, 5 pagers. And I have, like, what, the 10 longest ones done ( Read more... )

The nice thing about shoveling, of course, is that I'm doing it alone in a quiet, soft, white space, which means I get these vast swaths of uninterrupted time to work on 7V stuff in my head, which is awesome. Woo! I can sustain a line of thought for more than 3 minutes without interruption ( Read more... )

Just finally got power back after waking up without it this morning. Whew!

Sadly, I don't get to sit around and enjoy it... I gotta get back out there and shovel some more.

Ah well! At least I finally had some chai.

So apparently next year, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are getting Maya a Christmas present... a Tintin movie. I think this cannot help but be awesome ( Read more... )

Finally done with the first draft of the 7V schedule ( Read more... )

OK, I know, I'm beating a dead horse here, but I've been thinking about my little mushroom incident, and it's really changed the way I look at food allergies... given that I know I'm not the only one out there with potentially life-threatening food allergies, I wanted to share a bit of what I've learned from the experience. This may all be "Well, ( Read more... )

So, that time of year has come again... time to order Christmas books for my little girls! And if there's any aspect of gift-giving more satisfying than getting good books for your kids, I honestly don't know what it is ( Read more... )

Christmas tree is UP!

Decorating a tree with your kids ROCKS. Even if they do hang all the ornaments in one place. It's CUTER that way!

That is all.

My Madrigal Event:

( Short but sweet... my time at the event, that is, not my recounting of it )