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Whew. During the last hour or so of actually moving everything back into the house, I ran out of juice. What do you have when you’re out of juice? Spit — meanness, stubbornness, pride, anger, that kind of thing. A couple of days ago, I figured out I was still running on pure spit. Very […]

Back. We have moved. Everything that was going to make it made it. Still tired.

Move. We’re moving today. The phone number should remain the same, but you won’t be able to reach us until some time tomorrow. I won’t be able to access e-mail from home until we get set up in a couple of weeks, so I won’t be online until Monday. Later 🙂

Hot chocolate. Now this, I have to try: Mayan Hot Chocolate 2 cups boiling water 1 chile pepper, cut in half, seeds removed (with gloves) 5 cups light cream or whole or nonfat milk 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise 1 to 2 cinnamon sticks 8 ounces bittersweet chocolate or 3 tablets Mexican chocolate, cut into

Question of the Day. Sigh. The question of this morning was, “Where’s the best place to get new men’s size eight, low-top Chuck Taylor converse shoes in black (but with the regular soles)?” With shipping and including Ebay, the answer still seems to be at any local Famous Footwear outlet, for thirty bucks. Everyone that

Questions. Dang it. The internet gods wiped this out last night.* So… I had so much fun messing with the Chinese Dictionary question that I decided to write down a dozen or so other no-so-personally-pressing questions and see what I could find on the net. Yesterday’s question: What’s Yom Kippur? It’s the Jewish Day of

How does a Chinese dictionary work? You know, I’ve wondered about this for years. I still don’t know. But here are some notes from my online meandering in search of the answer: On-line Chinese Tools contains a number of interesting links, including “Get a Chinese Name.” Ray’s is Kong Rui su, “Sharp Revive.” Lee’s is

Ahhhhh…. I got the QC job. The boss was surprised that I was on pins an needles. “We knew for a couple of weeks,” he said. “We’re just waiting for HR to catch up.” And the apartment is a go. And the procedures are done. The chica in charge of them called me to thank

Story updates. I haven’t accomplished much on the story in the last two months, but the last couple of weeks have been interesting. I’m going through each character and working out more of the details, more of the plot on an individual basis. First, I go through the story and write down everything I run

Ironic. The same people who didn’t hire me for either a tech writing or a newsletter/communications position volunteered me to work on a departmental newsletter. “Can’t think of anybody else who could do it,” they said. Still waiting on the new QC job.