bloggers and bios and bears, oh my

Yes, I know. I’ve been neglecting my blog. It’s all that power gone to my head. The post on Schulz drew in a record number of hits…I’m contemplating just writing book reviews, only I can’t read that fast. Actually yes, I can, but not if I also have to do inconvenient things like work. Or [...]

happiness is a cold wind

It’s here: nasty weather. Huzzah! Yesterday it was 91 degrees, today 58. In celebration, I set a small piece of my kitchen a little teensy bit on fire.
We recently bought a nifty convection/toaster oven to replace our failing crummy toaster, and it apparently works *really well* up to and including reducing corn tortillas to carbon [...]

happiness is a warm biography

A book I want: Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography. I don’t know about you—you’re probably too young, most of you—I was barely old enough to appreciate this guy, but I did, because my parents had collections of the older Peanuts running way back. I may have been among the last, as I was surely one [...]

Makers

According to my private sources, a lot of people are getting decoupaged bowling balls for Christmas this year.
One neat thing about having a WordPress blog is that you can see which search topics have sent your visitors over. My hits are running heavily from people searching on decoupage topics, with bowling balls at the fore. [...]

blog action day

I don’t follow many blogs, but one that has grabbed my attention recently mentions that today is Blog Action Day.
I didn’t know. And I didn’t do anything for the environment today at all. T. remembered to take out the recycling bin, <surprise>, so I didn’t even have to do that.
I guess I’ll have to [...]

trouble at home

I’m making trouble at home. Not actually having trouble. All the difference.
I’m always making something. That reminds me, the Maker Faire [“the most fun a hacker can have with his pants on!!!”] is coming to Austin next weekend, and I am going to be there, even though it will be dripping with geeks, even though [...]

no go

Rats. I was supposed to be driving off to autumn today. It won’t seem to come here, so I was headed towards it. Specifically, westward to Arizona mountain country. It’s only a thousand miles away, a trip I’ve made in my trusty Honda CRV many times.
But there’s this cold, not the kind I wanted, that [...]