So for YEARS the University of Texas Pagan, Vampire Larp, and GLBT groups tended to cluster around a particular oak tree in the west mall. I think we kind of mythologized it, even if it is just a tree, it had a lot of fond memories of lollygagging and that sepia-tone that college memories get 10 years after the fact ( Read more... )

Whoof. I've taken a few beatings over the last few days over this ( Read more... )

Okay, so it's Dogai's birthday tonight. Bauson said that D really liked "biscoff" cookies, which are buttery little things with a touch of spice, and suggested (I think because he had a jar of Biscoff spread) that a biscoff cake could be in order ( Read more... )

Well, if that wasn't the cutest thing ever. We pulled into the grocery store parking lot, which has a fairly large green plaza with some high "xeriscape" grass growing in ragged patches, and Whines pointed out a ground squirrel! Or possibly a rat, but an awful cute burrowing one. It ducked into a hole under a bush, and we saw a few of its friends, ( Read more... )

What a week. I swear, I had about half an hour of work to deal with, maaaaybe an hour. There was some minor stuff I could have been doing, but it's sooo hard to do the "maintenance" stuff when there's nobody in the office and nobody's saying anything...there's a fair bit of job-security gloom in the office these days ( Read more... )

Long time, no post, I got swept away by work about a month ago. So I’ll try to recap ( Read more... )

Ach. Weekend off to a bad start with a series of e-mails Friday. The church is voting on hiring a volunteer coordinator (the answer to that should be “yes, absolutely, even if you have to sell off the children for the money.”) But the entire process has been hobbled a bit by the source of revenue for the position and the fiscally “responsible” ( Read more... )

--last night baked two large loaves of Hawaiian bread. We’ll see what happens-unfortunately kneaded the bread a second time, so it may be rather dense and heavy. I don’t know, we’ll see. I made a cloverleaf freeform bun, kind of like six petals on a flower, and painted the petals alternating with butter and egg, so one petal is glossy and red-brown ( Read more... )

I have to say, with the increase in my free time I've been enjoying weekends a fair bit more ( Read more... )

Brfblf. Eat way too much starchy food at Indian buffet, then sit down to edit a 50 page funding proposal/grant document.

/me snores