March 2011
Nothing to see here, folks →
1. Lo, I am sick and pathetic and at work. I’ve been up since two, since my sore throat woke me up. But I did get a load of dishes done before I came in.
2. I’m at work because I don’t have enough…
How the sausage gets made →
Apparently some guy fell asleep on the mid shift at an airport on the east coast recently. So now we have a rule saying that, on the mid shift, we are required to make sure the controllers around us…
Movies this week →
I ended up seeing a number of movies this week, it turns out.
Battle: Los Angeles — The United States is, it seems, really scared of what will happen to us if we are ever invaded they way we…
Vegetarian cooking recipes →
A couple people asked for recipes on Twitter –
Vegetarian Chick-Pea Cassoulet
5-8 cloves of garlic, crushed and minced
1 large onion, chopped
1-3 stalks of celery, chopped, depending on how…
To be read →
Books I have started reading:
Shadows in the Desert, Dr. Kaveh Farrokh Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Amanda Foreman New Amsterdam, Elizabeth Bear 1491, Charles C. Mann Just Kids, Patti…
Time, money, both still finite →
1. The May circus shows are coming up. Somewhat to our chagrin, the kids’ Unicycle acts are each in the second half of the show. So both kids will need to stay up until 10:30 or 11:00 at night on…
WHEDONISTAS TODAY →
Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them is available today! Order it from the publisher, Mad Norwegian Press, at the link above. Or you can order it from…
Review of Plants vs. Zombies: Bedtime →
My comic, Plants vs. Zombies: Bedtime, got a nice mention by Michael May at CBR’s Robot 6 What Are You Reading. Scroll down a little bit for his remarks!
The art on that short comic is by the…
Visibility still matters →
My coworkers reminded me this afternoon that I a) liked the tv show Arrested Development and b) haven’t seen it in ages. In fact, I think I’ve never seen the second and third seasons. As it happens…
A list of things on a Saturday →
1. Things are looking grim in Japan. I’ve donated what I can, and am now watching with the rest of the world.
2. I re-read Janet Kagen’s Mirabile yesterday. Excellent book, still, and I will…
The smallness of the world →
1. I woke up this morning to the news of the terrible earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which has frankly colored my day. I donated to the Red Cross and to Doctors Without Borders. This doesn’t seem…
Too tired to brain →
1. Watched Rumble in the Bronx. I love watching Jackie Chan move.
2. Finished first draft of short story. It needs to sit for a day or so, and then I need to tackle it with a pen, on paper, and…
Pop culture Sunday →
1. I watched the remake of The Karate Kid. I liked it, much better than the original, honestly. I kinda bounced off of the original Karate Kid. Not the right age or time or situation, I guess. And…
Saturday morning domesticity →
1. Started a book called The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan, about the survivors of the Dustbowl. So far it is extremely compelling and also horrifying.
2. The time of the kids’ swim classes…
The Worst Hard Time, page 57
“‘The last frontier of agriculture,’ he government called it in 1923. Southern families, field hands, Scots-Irish and Welsh usually,came in steady waves, fleeing exhausted land for a prairie untouched. The Scots-Irish had left Ireland and the north of Britain in the eighteenth century and settled in the thin soil on either side of the Appalachian spine before spreading out to the...
Only two things this morning →
1. I am trying to remember to put one space after a period instead of two. I reset the grammar-check on Word to alert me to this error, and it’s driving me crazy. This is partly due to the changing…
Ke$ha, Team Rocket, and homeschooling →
J and I were talking yesterday about cultural literacy. At playgroup on Tuesday, one of the kids asked what this gully in the woods was, and J replied it was where the old trolley line used to run,…
