I have done laundry, made oatmeal-apple-craisin cookie dough, and have everything needed for some meat pies to be frozen. I think I'm going to do them like an English pasty, where the fillin's are folded up in the dough, instead of formal pies. *ponder* Must find the flaky-crust recipe, too; I like the vodka-crust recipe flavor, but want to use ( Read more... )

I want my grandmother back. She slipped away this morning at about 1am, which was no surprise after her massive stroke a week ago. She was lucid and a genial, polite troublemaker for all 96 of her years, so she had a great run of it. But I want her back. I want to go back to the summer that we spent 2 weeks on a 2-masted sailboat in the British ( Read more... )

To keep up with the times, I should learn HTML 5. Every time I try to turn to that, I can think of at least 3 things that are more important for me to do. So I played a bit with JQuery; it's fun, it's cross-browser, it's easy ... it's boring. *face plant* So I'm thinking I need a job where there's someone to encourage me to work with these ( Read more... )

I have had a very productive week, and it shall be more productive tomorrow: I have a volunteer to help me build my last set of shelves! Which means I need to clean up the cat litter and rearrange the downstairs a bit to actually put the shelves where they belong, but it's SO going to be worth it. The way I'm building them results in a deceptive ( Read more... )

So my one client is apparently exploding, politically, from the sheer pressure of incompetence being unveiled and management refusing to allow anybody to be told exactly what happened. (A massive security hole was publicized several months ago. Client apparently didn't update their software. Now I'm suffering for it. Yay ( Read more... )

But can I ever complain. :) ( Let's see if I can Cut the complaint... )

I remembered my password. ;)

I've been hanging out on FaceBook. It's great for memes and reconnecting with folks that I haven't seen in forever, but it really isn't a good place for the extended chatting of which I am capable. So I shall do my chatting here, where it's an appropriate display interface.

Ahhhh, the chatting glee. :D

I was going to share something pithy about things that annoy me, because I'm clealy easily annoyed.... oh wait, I remembered what was annoying me, how annoying. *sigh* Ingratitude. I did a big favor for someone, and rather than say "thank you for dropping everything and dedicating 2-3 hours to figuring out WTF was up with that POS file I gave ( Read more... )

My Thursday, in brief ( Read more... )

My son is, in general, one of the happiest, sweetest people alive. So when he starts acting out and screaming about hating things, I don't get mad. Today was particularly bad, so when tickling just made it worse, I pulled out the big guns: I bounced him on my knee and sang "This is the way the ladies ride", and then we sat on the couch together ( Read more... )