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Sitting here peacefully reading a knitting book, suddenly from upstairs, thunder, then a black blur STREAKING through the front room, up and over the sofa, into and around the dining room, back through the living room and back upstairs - accompanied by loud crumpling and crackling of an orange plastic grocery bag whose handle-hole the black streak ( Read more... )

I signed on for NaNoWriMo 2013 last night. There's this idea that's been buzzing around in my head for about a year and I think I need to get it written to get rid of it ( Read more... )

Thursday, I went out back to get the shed cleaned up, preparatory to giving it a new coat of paint and two new facing boards at the front corners. I was thinking the whole project (cleaning, prepping and painting) could be done Thursday afternoon. I don't know why my brain tells me stuff like that. I'm pretty sure it's mocking me ( Read more... )

Jay Lake linked to the story about the lonely wandering planet today in his LJ post. It made me think of an old short story I never sold. I've posted it and the link to the story of PSO J318.5-22 on my blog.

It's John Lennon's birthday today. He'd have been 73.

The mind, it boggles.

OK, I figured out how to watch Netflix movies. NOW the problem - and it's not a life-threatening one, but it does need to get fixed and I cannot find ANYWHERE on the internet that tells me how to do it, ALL currency is shown as Euros. Every page, everywhere, even my own credit union accounts and retirement accounts. I discovered that if I mouse ( Read more... )

However, today I *did* figure out how to migrate all my bookmarks over from iGoogle. But Chrome? Really? This sucks giant balls of unpleasant stuff.  It's so damned confusing. Is it just because I'm old? I've been using computers since 1984, and I've been an internet surfer/player since about...oh, 1986, so I feel like I've kept my hand in. But I ( Read more... )

I posted it in my blog, here.

What's it all about? Neil Gaiman started this terrific idea a few years ago. Read about it here:


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