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Keeping busy. More than a little stressed. The next couple of days are (as usual) critical. So far so good, though…
I’ve graduated from being assigned weird shifts for monitoring the farm during Val to being on call 24×7 for the duration; I’m not sure if this is an improvement or not, but it […]

Had two completely different weekends in one the past two days–one lazy and relaxing, and one busy and productive.
On the lazy front: sleeping in, watching the snow fall, playing with the cats, watching TV and movies of varying badness (from Hellboy to a Gene Autry movie whose title I never caught, but which was […]

I’ve been, in a bloggish sense, a bit backed up of late, due to rampant schedule craziness. It’s time I do something about that. So… Here come lots of random and largely unrelated things that I’ve been meaning to post! (Oh, how lucky you are!)

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After I managed to almost ruin a sweater […]

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We’re now back from our adventures in Indiana. Friday was occupied with the drive down (filled with an amusingly punch-drunk loop of “are we there yet?”), and capped off with a bit of prosecco and tasty eats at Agio, which we selected based […]

I managed to fritter away Friday night and almost all of Saturday with the skill and grace of a consummate slacker, knowing full well that I had Stuff To Do and that by gum, I was going to put it off as long as I could. I had almost forgotten I could procrastinate so […]

Friday was grey, damp, and cold in Cleveland, which made it an excellent occasion to get the heck out of town and go to sam16 and supercarrot’s wedding in New Jersey. The drive out was mostly in the dark due to Liz’s work schedule, but we still managed to arrive in the Collingswood area […]

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Friday: Post-launch drinking festivities with co-workers (yay, the new AOL Greetings site is live!) blurred pleasantly into dinner and beverages of various and sundry natures with aquamindy, reasie, oogby, and trenchcloak, followed by a couple of rounds of Apples to Apples back at […]

Nothing like being out of town for a week in the middle of a huge and massively stressful work project… The two-day week I had last week before I took off was extremely subdued and care-free (since, of course, I was about to be on vacation for a week). The three-day week this […]

Molé is a strange and magical creature, requiring great care and effort to coax into being, but wonderful to behold and enjoy. We spent the better part of a Saturday a couple weeks ago running around town to track down the ingredients; when we finally got around to preparing it this weekend, it consumed […]

It’s an odd sort of weekend that has quite a bit packed into it, and yet is quite relaxing and lazy at the same time.
We were up and out the door early on Saturday to arrive at the opening of the first farmers’ market of the season at Crocker Park. We bought some apples […]