Stove update: We received a new electric stove last Monday, but discovered that the landlord had not reckoned on the need for a 220 outlet and an electrician's help in getting it all set up. After some assessing and estimating it seems that it's still less expensive to have an electrician install a new outlet and hook it all up than to go ahead and ( Read more... )

I've been so bad about posting here. Mostly it's because I've been busy with real life, but I've also been distracted by Facebook and Twitter. Which have their merits, to be sure, but the longer form of posting is not among them ( Read more... )

Life has this way of getting in the way of my Web world. I've been occupied with the 107 Cookbooks blog (http://107Cookbooks.com), work, writing, household chores, and all the other things that fill up one's time so that one finds oneself saying "How the hell is it 4 pm already ( Read more... )

My new blog is up, the 107 Cookbooks project: http://107cookbooks.com. I'm going to cook my way through my cookbook collection by June 30, 2010. Or die trying. Maybe not die, actually, but wish I had when it's time to make Jell-O. Initial post is up; more to come before very long.

Today was my Jeopardy audition, and I think it went very well. Those of us who showed up today are already in the contestant pool, we were told; and although the contestant wranglers were more circumspect than to say it in so many words, today was partly a chance to gauge how well we would do on the televised program--not just in answering ( Read more... )

I confess I have been neglecting LiveJournal more than I've been neglecting other online media and real-life friends, but I have been neglecting them all somewhat as well. Nothing personal, just how it goes. So of course I have a new blog project going; watch this space for details (if all goes well, further info by Friday ( Read more... )

Back from Portland. It was a very good visit and not at all diminished by having to be up early enough to leave the hotel at 4 am local time today and spend 12 hours traveling. The cats are glad to see us, though Prince of Space will be gladder when Scott removes the computer from his lap and allows the cat to loll there instead ( Read more... )

At the beach with Scott and a friend. Right now we're all off on our own, to regroup again for lunch. It's good to travel with people who understand the need for alone time ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to stacy!

I'm so out of the habit of posting to LJ, even though I ready my friends list all the time. So here's the news I posted on Twitter and Facebook: I found out last night that I'm invited to a contestant screening for Jeopardy in June. I must have done OK on the online test after all. No idea how I'll do there, or what steps intervene between that and ( Read more... )