adulthood rite
Today I used power tools. Yeah, I know, big deal. But usually when we do things to the house, the man is here to do most of the power tool stuff, but also to confidently make holes in walls and…
The learning
What I learned today at Costco: if there’s a little star/asterisk thing in the right upper corner of a price sign, it means that that product is almost out of stock and they won’t be getting it in again real…
The end is nigh
Tomorrow is the end of the semester. Well, except for Saturday’s graduation and the two theses I have to read and hand back to students for revision. They are a bit (a lot) last minute, so I’ll be spending some…
and the cold came back
We’re under a winter storm watch. Again. I don’t think we’ll actually get snow, but it had to come the night before the girlie’s birthday party. To which people have still not RSVPed, so I don’t even know if anyone…
mythical birds
I spent some of yesterday and today researching mythical birds. I have this scene in mind where they do an Alfred Hitchcockian sort of attack on *name redacted*. I have this picture in one book of the perfect birds. But…