Carrie Newcomer will be in Colorado Springs on May 4, and in Highlands Ranch on May 6.

Using the 5,000 ft. elevation recipe in Pie in the Sky, I successfully made cracker-crisp French bread. Victory! Today: test Grandma Bouzek’s bread maker…

Watched this over Christmas… Dang. One of the few movies with a transcendental ending that’s able to pull it off. What the Matrix could have been, had it been about 50 times cooler. Saying Akira is a seminal anime is like saying Shakespeare was a seminal playwright….oh, it’s not Midsummer Night’s Dream, but it’s better

Thinking about getting a coffee roaster. Does 3 oz. at a time, costs $85, and beans are about $4/pound. Also, it’s supposed to taste heavenly.

There is a horror of too much information. (Not TMI, as it were.) Instead of trying to find out what things man ought not to know of, we should stick with the tried and true…a sentiment shared by Jorge of Burgos (The Name of the Rose) and the Cthulu stories. I wonder whether I should

tohubohu (TOH-hoo-BO-hoo) noun Chaos; confusion. [From Hebrew tohu wa-bhohu, from tohu (formlessness) and bhohu (emptiness).] ( via Anu Garg [garg wordsmith.org])

Ray cut her hair! Lee was home with her today…she came out of the room, and he said, “What happened to your hair?” And she said, “I don’t know!” I had to work pretty late tonight; by the time I got home she was asleep. She woke up halfways when I went in to take

(from my mother) As the holidays approach, my heartfelt appreciation goes out to all of you who have taken the time and trouble to send me “forwards” over the past 12 months. Thank you for making me feel safe, secure, blessed, and wealthy. Extra thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat crap in

…go to Santa School.