I can embark on ten-year garden projects. If I want to.

Name five books, music CDs, or movies, if any, that would you rather buy someone a copy of rather than loan out your last copy. Yours truly: Annotated Alice, Lewis/Tenniel/GardnerCollected Fictions, Jorge Luis BorgesFLCL (anime)Master Li and Number Ten Ox Novels, Barry HughartThe Sandman series …and I would be pretty itchy about any Tom Waits

[Spoilers below.] Agatha Christie writes, in At Bertram’s Hotel: There had, of course, been many other hotels on the model of Bertram’s. Some still existed, but nearly all had felt the wind of change. They had necessarily to modernize themselves, to cater for a different clientele. Bertram’s, too, had had to change, but it had

***Dave says, “It’s just hard to be spontaneous when you have little kids around (which is deeply, deeply ironic, given how spontaneous *they* are — Conservation of Spontaneity?)” Just so.

Woot! This spring, I wrote a murder-mystery game expansion pack for the “Way out West” game for Freeform Games. Playtesting was wrapped up a few weeks ago, and the game has been published on the website. OoOoOoOo!

So I’m sitting here, folding clothes, considering whether to ask Lee to help, when I realize that what he’s doing will be far more productive in the long term: reading a home-improvement book and taking notes…

Er…or just a reason, really. Every Day with Rachael Ray has a section every month with a recipe you can share with your pet. This month’s is Pumpkin Barley with Turkey. If When we get a dog, I’ll try it out.

When making chowder, use a dough cutter to squash the potatoes after they’re cooked through. Pleasantly chunky results.

Escaped a little early from work and spent an hour driving along this road I’d been eying for a month or so. DRAGRONMAN’S SHOOTING RANGE AND PAINTBALL FIELD Sheesh. Two great tastes that do not go together. I also passed a sign that (I think) said something about the next two miles cleaned courtesy of

“You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.” “A man may fight for many things. His country, his friends, his principles, the glistening ear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I’d mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of