A Cat By Any Other Name

We’ve had quite the wind storm in the last two days around here, to the point that driving to and from work was a challenge in keeping the car in my own lane. So it was not a complete surprise when the power started flickering in the house this evening, and it was only inevitable [...]

Today was a good day. It started with sleeping in and ended with gaming and in the middle there was a few hours of being very girly, so it covered all the bases. Plus there were even, at one point, root beer floats, so how much better can a day get? Richard went off to [...]

It being Palm Sunday, the choir director decided to have us sing a huge pile of music. Included in this pile of music were a song for just the men and a song for just the women. I got to demonstrate, once again, my musical multi-gender tendencies by singing in both of them. It was [...]

Yesterday one of my coworkers, who had been outside on the deck talking on the phone, came into the office and announced “There’s a turtle.” Naturally the rest of us dropped whatever we were doing to take advantage of such a wonderful excuse to procrastinate on work and rushed outside with the office binoculars to [...]

We’ve been doing interviews over at The Usual Suspects for a few months now. My second one was just posted over there, so I decided, in lieu of an actual entry, I’d reprint it here. An Interview of Jenipurr, by Locust Your home seems to be very important to you. You bought land and had [...]

This week it’s apparently all about the surveys. I haven’t done one of these in a while, so here’s a Friday Five. What do you do for a living? I work for a construction cost estimating company. However, my job has very little to do with estimating. I’m part database wrangler (of the not-really-a-real-database Access [...]

First of all, in response to the last few days that have culminated in Easter weekend, let me just say that if I am forced to either listen to, or sing “Were You There” one more time I may just shoot myself. Or I may shoot someone else. The whole point is that there will [...]

So that sweater I’ve been working on? It’s done. I finished it tonight, while watching Angel. Making the buttonholes was…interesting, since I had to knit the band and attach it all in one long piece as I went. It fits loose enough to wear over things, which is good because I ended up putting on [...]

Tuesday I had Richard drop me off at Raley field again and I rode to work, but this time on the way home I decided to try to ride another few miles, and make it all the way to the beginning of the causeway. Of course, this was all planned before we realized just how [...]

Once Buffy finished its seventh and final season last year we’ve been at a loss for a weekly fix from the Whedonverse. We’ve been busily purchasing and watching the first five seasons of Buffy so we’re at least now caught up to where we started watching it, but there’s still time before season 6 comes [...]