Sebastian is losing weight and I am starting to come to terms with the fact that he is getting older. He tends to do more sitting and staring into space than running and being active. I’m not sure I’m ready for him to be old, but I’ve had him for nearly ten years now. Has […]
There’s been this little part of my brain that has insisted that this isn’t going to work - that she will sew this dress and it will be horrid - not what I wanted, but exactly what I picked, and I’ll be stuck with it. And I’ve never been good at visualizing things on me […]
If Collab - March: If given the challenge, could you live without a mirror for one week? How much emphasis do you place on the outward appearance you show the world?
One week. No mirror. What’s the big deal with that?
It sounds so easy, doesn’t it, and of course if you say ‘no’, then that […]
I pass a house every day on the way to work. Most days I don’t even turn my head to look - it’s merely something alongside the road, and I’m too tired to care about the scenery that early in the morning.
But lately I’ve been looking more, sometimes even slowing down a bit just […]
Today we drove to Chico for a funeral.
The drive was long - longer than it should have been as we later learned on the way home after actually checking a map instead of believing in the almighty power of Mapquest. It was a pretty drive in places. We saw a few clumps of California poppies […]
Covington Cream. Painted Lady. Peppertree. Lakeside. White Shadow. Swiss Coffee.
There are whole folder of names like these, beside inch-square chips of color, grouped carefully on a white background. One whole folder of colors was marked ‘historic’, meant specifically for those of us who are partial to the Victorian era.
I am not good at matching […]
It used to be that I loved my job all the time, and the days when I wished I could do something else were far and few between. It used to be that I would dream code in my sleep and leave myself half-awake voicemail messages for how to fix the problem that was plaguing […]
It is March, but you wouldn’t know it from the weather. It’s been in the high 70’s this week so far - far warmer than it should be for this time of year. I’m wearing short sleeves and it’s not even spring. This does not bode well for summer.
I’m sitting in the computer room […]
There is an undercurrent of unease at work these days. We’re in a period of assessment, examining what’s been developed so far and trying to figure out how much further we have to go. But while we’re doing this, development has been frozen, and while all the technical team members have been pulled instead into […]
Richard and I borrowed a car from the Toyota dealership last Saturday. We didn’t have to pay any rental fees - we just let them copy our driver’s licenses and then drove off as they waved goodbye. We got no hard sell - an unusual thing for an auto dealership; no fast patter to convince […]
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