Monthly Archives: January 2006

Book Club Verdict: Kite Runner

The good news is that we all loved this book. It was powerful, moving, emotional, and well-written. We spent a great deal of time talking about how we felt about each character’s actions, and their motivations for taking them. The … Continue reading

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So much knitting

Remember these? They look like this now. And this sock? I’m this far along the first one. They’re still doing the icky pooling thing, and when I finish both socks, there will be much rejoycing. And you saw this one, … Continue reading

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Help me, Obi Wan Internets, you’re my only hope

Well, I could try and find the answers to my questions, but I’ve been looking and I can’t find anything. They’re both programming/code questions, so put your thinking caps on! The first question is, how do I get a new … Continue reading

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In French, it’s pronounced “boo-tay”

(All the picutres from my trip can be found here.) I arrive home the Thursday before Christmas, and this is how may cat, who hasn’t seen me in over two months, greets me: Fuzzy lovable lump. Then, I find this … Continue reading

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Minor miracles

I don’t know exactly how, but I got my two computers to talk to each other tonight. It remains a mystery what combination of keystrokes did the trick, but I opened my laptop while waiting for the desktop to do … Continue reading

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Not quite a resolution, but close

Things are slowly getting back to normal here at Chez Moi. I haven’t taken down any of the three Christmas decorations I put up, including the lights on my balcony, but I have changed the picture on my desktop. To … Continue reading

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Smart ass

Last night, I bought a bag of Smart Spud potatoes. Turns out they’re not all that smart. Stupid potatoes. They don’t even mash all that good, either.

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A joke I heard on the way home

If the left side of your body is controlled by the right hemisphere of your brain, and the right side of your body is controlled by the left hemisphere of your brain, then… …only left-handed people are in their right … Continue reading

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