Little change since the last posting: joints still ache, dead people are still dead, probate courts take forever, weird weather - you know, the usual ( Read more... )

FYI, my father died this morning. Thus continues the Year from Hell.

Two and a half weeks since the last post ( Read more... )

Ahoy, librarians and book geeks! Within the next year or so, a large chunk of my mother's library (numbering well over one thousand) will be dumped onto my front doorstep, to join the well-over-one-thousand books of mine already here. They badly need to be cataloged. Any suggestions as to how to go about hiring someone? Which cataloging system to ( Read more... )

I didn't know that adding a space to the titles of Dropbox folders changes the URL for that folder. Ah, well.

Cartas de hidualgo:
Francisco de Frias
Francisco de Cardenas
Guiomar de Alarcon
Rodrigo Ortiz
Justus de Vogelaur
André Blasquez/a>
Pedro de Villanueva


16th and 17th century French household receipts (in both senses of the word)
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AHEM! Three days until Thanksgiving - so where are the thanks ( Read more... )

Note to self: stop trying to write FaceBook entries that require thought after 10:00 PM. Every time I do, it seems I make no sense at all, even when I read them the next morning.

...so, what is an appropriate phrase to use for the Vernal/Autumnal Equinox when writing a note that'll be read at the same time in both hemispheres?

One of the reasons I go to the Kalamazoo medieval congress is, of course, that quite a few publishers display old, new, and advance copies of books. This year, there seemed to be more than the usual number of archaeological-report series ("Findings from the 10th-century digs at Outer Slobovia" with 14 yearly volumes so far; "Upper Fitchburistan: A ( Read more... )

Thursday 10:00 am
( Collaboration: Scribes with Scribes, Scribes with Artists. )

Back to occasional insomniacal posting, with a probably badly worded request, but I'm sure most of you will know what I'm trying to say even when I don't ( Read more... )