If all goes according to plan, this should post while I’m standing at the baggage area in DIA waiting for my bags to be offloaded from the plane, if not moving outward into the greater Denver area. Which means that I can now add Colorado to the list of states I have been in briefly, […]
The nice people at the county remind us that it’s time to get Stormycat her rabies shot and license again. They sent us a postcard. It contained the following vitals: Name: Stormy Sex: F Color: Calico Breed: Pitbull I guess that’s dangerously cute for you.
So, in the process of cleaning up my room, I found my old Nalgene bottle I used to carry around when I was in grad school. I’ve been trying to drink more water, so I’ve gotten back in the habit of carrying it to work: But this has its problems. If you’re not familiar with […]
I’m about to enter the pay period just prior to Worldcon. That means that I’m about three weeks out. I think it’ll be three weeks tomorrow that I get on a plane and leave for Denver. That means I need to figure out what has to be done in those three weeks. I need to […]
I spent most of the weekend mucking out my room. That is, I’ve been in there cleaning it up from the disaster-area state that it was in and moving things around. It’s not completely done. There’s a lot of things in boxes, and I’ve got a lot of sorting ahead. But my carpet has been […]
It’s like living in a smoker these days in Sacramento, between the heat and the smoke. Last week was absolutely gorgeous. Mild temps and the smoke cleared out. But a heat wave is building in, and the smoke’s pooling in the valley again. In the last hour or so, the smoke’s really descended. I stepped […]
I don’t know how long ago I stumbled upon Real Life Preacher. I know it was back before we even knew his name, back when his blog was on Salon, but it doesn’t really matter. All that matters is that there was a guy, who claimed to be a real life preacher, and he was […]
You know how I was speculating how bad it was in Redding in my last post? My friend Linda Raven Moore lives up Weaverville way. For those of you not in the know, Weaverville’s in the mountains west of Redding. It’s the county seat of Trinity County, which is the most rural county in the […]
It’s ugly out there. This is a picture I just took about fifteen minutes ago, as the sun was going down here in Antelope, which is roughly twenty miles northeast of Sacramento proper. (I’m near Roseville, for those familiar with Sactown geography.) The air’s been nasty all day. Every night, we hope it’ll get better […]
So the folks at work finally got back to me about whether I can take a few days off for vacation to go to Worldcon. The answer is yes. Flights are as follows: Depart: Tuesday, 05 August 08 Frontier Airlines 08:12 PM Sacramento , CA , US (SMF) Non-Stop / F9 0224 Arrive: […]
Okay, two things. First of all, I’ve been playing with playing with Plurk recently. If you’d like to join the service, you can join it through my invite link. It’s kinda like twitter, but it’s got the cool invite feed. The other thing I’ve been meaning to ask is which of the social networking sites […]
Copied directly from my unofficial transcript: Spring 2008 Program : American River College Plan : Accounting Major ACCT 103 Intermed Accounting I 4.00 4.00 A 16.000 CISA 315 Electronic Spreadsheets 2.00 2.00 A 8.000 Course Topic(s): EXCEL 2007 TERM GPA : 4.000 TERM TOTALS : 6.00 6.00 24.000 CUM GPA : 4.000 CUM TOTALS : […]
From a rift in the space-time continuum somewhere near the Hyatt Santa Clara, katster emerges from the pocket dimension she has been inhabiting for the last three days. Tim Powers, our Writer Guest of Honor, was the one that coined the “pocket dimension” idea as he summed up his thoughts on the weekends at closing […]
Saturday night at Baycon! The badge is pinned just about as high as I can get it on my shoulder. The last ribbon is at my ankle. (There are fifty-three ribbons (of which five are mine, as in ones I was handing out) in that chain, plus a gofer ribbon (old habits die hard), […]