years go by
Dec. 30th, 2011 02:17 pmWhat a year. I mean, I got married, and that was about the least interesting of the three Interesting Things I did.
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so, that was a (Paper-ful) weekend
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diadelphous came out from Texas for the weekend. On Friday they braved the flurrying snow and went into the District to wander through the Smithsonian, accompanied by uilos. I joined them all for dinner at Afterwords and we browsed the bookstore and got cupcakes from Hello Cupcake. (While waiting for them I had time to read It's A Book, which was very cute and also had a monkey.)
HC was out of the day's gluten-free cupcakes, which was a disappointment since half the point of going to Dupont was to pick some up so we'd have them the next day. Oh well. The cupcakes they had were delicious and totally worth the trip.
( But why, you may ask, did we need gluten-free cupcakes? )
Sunday we got up and saw our Texan visitors off, and stopped by my parents' place for my father's birthday lunch. Then we came home and collapsed for several hours.
People keep asking me if I feel any different. The only answer I've been able to come up with is "Now I have less cake."
rbandrews and diadelphous came out from Texas for the weekend. On Friday they braved the flurrying snow and went into the District to wander through the Smithsonian, accompanied by uilos. I joined them all for dinner at Afterwords and we browsed the bookstore and got cupcakes from Hello Cupcake. (While waiting for them I had time to read It's A Book, which was very cute and also had a monkey.)HC was out of the day's gluten-free cupcakes, which was a disappointment since half the point of going to Dupont was to pick some up so we'd have them the next day. Oh well. The cupcakes they had were delicious and totally worth the trip.
( But why, you may ask, did we need gluten-free cupcakes? )
Sunday we got up and saw our Texan visitors off, and stopped by my parents' place for my father's birthday lunch. Then we came home and collapsed for several hours.
People keep asking me if I feel any different. The only answer I've been able to come up with is "Now I have less cake."
printer etc
Jan. 8th, 2011 09:06 amOne of the things I got for Xmas was a new printer. I already had a printer, sort of. The paper feed is broken to the point that I have to feed it each sheet individually, and it has a bad habit of leaving faint black streaks on the page for no apparent reason. I would have stuck with it anyway (I only print things once in a blue moon) but its only input port is a parallel port, which I'm not even sure there's space for on the body of my current laptop.
So I have a new printer. It's a very nice USB monochrome laserjet that claims to be able to print upwards of twenty pages per minute once it gets going. I can verify that it does take awhile to get going, and also that it draws enough power to make the lights in my room flicker. (Things I am looking forward to in six months: modern electrical wiring.) We ran through some of the initial paperwork for Secret Project Paper last night. It turned out really well. I'm happy to have this printer, even if I don't know how often I'm going to be using it.
This morning I woke up earlier than one ought to wake up on a weekend so that I could cook pancakes foruilos. She's heading off for a weekend of Longwood Gardens and jellyfish with other folk. I would have gone along but I'm in desperate need of a quiet weekend at home. So instead I shall lounge around here for awhile, then stop by the post office, and head off to gaming with Chris-the-repatriated. Tomorrow is almost certainly going to involve not setting foot outside and getting a good day's worth of writing (well, revising) for the first time since November. Unless I decide it's a fine day for Secret Project Gethen.
... although it seems to be snowing pretty seriously out there. Which is appropriate for something called Secret Project Gethen, but I think I'll just put it off til another day.
And I'd thought this was going to be more coherent than it ended up being. I may as well throw in a link to Nix v. Hedden, in which the US Supreme Court ruled on one of the vital issues of the day. (Premonitions of "Pigs is Pigs".)
So I have a new printer. It's a very nice USB monochrome laserjet that claims to be able to print upwards of twenty pages per minute once it gets going. I can verify that it does take awhile to get going, and also that it draws enough power to make the lights in my room flicker. (Things I am looking forward to in six months: modern electrical wiring.) We ran through some of the initial paperwork for Secret Project Paper last night. It turned out really well. I'm happy to have this printer, even if I don't know how often I'm going to be using it.
This morning I woke up earlier than one ought to wake up on a weekend so that I could cook pancakes for
uilos. She's heading off for a weekend of Longwood Gardens and jellyfish with other folk. I would have gone along but I'm in desperate need of a quiet weekend at home. So instead I shall lounge around here for awhile, then stop by the post office, and head off to gaming with Chris-the-repatriated. Tomorrow is almost certainly going to involve not setting foot outside and getting a good day's worth of writing (well, revising) for the first time since November. Unless I decide it's a fine day for Secret Project Gethen.... although it seems to be snowing pretty seriously out there. Which is appropriate for something called Secret Project Gethen, but I think I'll just put it off til another day.
And I'd thought this was going to be more coherent than it ended up being. I may as well throw in a link to Nix v. Hedden, in which the US Supreme Court ruled on one of the vital issues of the day. (Premonitions of "Pigs is Pigs".)
good things
Dec. 22nd, 2010 03:53 pm- Chris-in-exile's exile is ending! He'll be out in Fairfax, which is a bit of a haul but not as bad as it might be. Tonight I'm going down to help him move in.
- Tomorrow is my annual lunch with Steph.
- My family gave me the best gift of all this Xmas: their absence. Parents are going to Arkansas, sister etc to Connecticut, and I get to stay home and play games.
- There is motion on Secret Project Paper, after certain Brilliant Ideas were thwarted by practical considerations.
- The sky has been several stunning shades of bluegrey over the course of the day.
