Grammatically the title is incorrect. However, in the vernacular, it’s dead on. Since the meeting ended, and the classwork tapered off, I had expected to be able to channel my energy into getting my house and yard whipped into shape. Instead, the opposite happened. The migraine that began the last day of the meeting was […]
Month: August 2009
Office Progress
I didn’t take pics of the office in June, before we cleared out the HUGE piles of boxes, painted and put up new curtains. But here are two pics. Yesterday, we moved in two new pieces of furniture (the bookshelf and lateral files) and a new office chair. Today, I brought about ten boxes back […]
Quick Update
Recap: The meeting was officially over last Thursday. Friday, a trip to Mt. Rainier that did not go well (writing as a planner) but was plenty exciting and beautiful (writing as a person who loves scenery). That is what started the migraine that lingers still, 6 days later. During the meeting, I enjoyed a few […]
Almost Over…
The meeting is officially over as of yesterday evening. The actual lecture part was over the evening before that. The trip up the mountain was not what we expected. One of our five vans broke down, necessitating one driver and another person making unplanned trips back down with an extra load or to return with […]
What I haven’t been up to…
Since the end of spring quarter, I haven’t been working in the garden. I haven’t been playing my favorite online game for an hour a day, nor even a half hour on a consistent basis. I haven’t been reading books “just for fun.” I haven’t been visiting friends, making phone calls or catching up on […]
A trick question?
The elder stidkid made it home late Sunday night, from a three-week trip to Australia. While he was away, his best friend/penpal from Tbilisi came to visit, arriving a week before the stidkid came home. So the younger stidkid hosted our friend admirably for a week. Today, once the sleepy-head awoke (at two in the […]
Finally, JAM!
I finally had a chance to use the lovely jam pot my parents bought me on their last trip to France: forged in a shop hundreds of years old, copper with steel (I think) handles. Don’t the plums from our tree look lovely in it? And here is a shot from the middle of the […]
PINK computer!
I have been lobbying for a smaller, tablet-style computer for school for some time now. While researching similar ideas for my mother who travels a lot, I read up on the new HP 110 series. Finding them in the stores, I was always impressed with the feel of the keys, the way the screen looks […]