Resolution review (Oct 2008)

Knitting: I suck.
[One problem is, I can't read and knit at the same time, and I'm engrossed in reading these days -- I've reread Brust's Khaavren Romances, and now I'm rereading what someone dubbed the Vladiad. Usually when I reread a series I go through it in internal chronological order, but this time for a [...]

Escapism fail

Man. Country on brink of financial ruin. Major banks failing. All because they’ve been making too many risky loans. What are you going to do to take your mind off this stuff? How about reading some escapist fantasy? That’s what I’m doing. I’ve been working my way through Steven Brust’s Dragaera books (again). I just [...]

Sometimes I worry about Freecycle

There are 19 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Wanted: working baby vaporizer

Slings, arrows, cream pies, and molehills

1. My mom and sister live in Houston. My sister and her husband actually are visiting his family in England, so they missed all the fun.  (A couple years ago they were in England for Christmas, and it snowed in Houston. Maybe they should stay away from England.) Apparently a neighbor reports their house is [...]

Cooperation

The former goat stall isn’t working out well as chicken shelter, so we’re building a chicken coop:
It’s a Frankensteinian mix of new and experienced wood; the prospective tenants seem to think it’s OK so far. As new projects justify new tools, I bought a framing level. And, um, a compound miter saw. Also yesterday I [...]

Bill update

Heather’s dad is now off the vent and sedation; he’s awake and alert, and if all goes well overnight he might move out of the ICU tomorrow. Still a long hard road ahead but he’s doing well.

Now I’m really scared

Micro black holes and strangelets don’t bother me, but particle physicists doing improv comedy?  That could really destroy the Universe.
(Heather wants to know if they’re taking the accelerated course.)

Blue Mountain Lake

Back around, oh, I’d guess the late 1920s, my grandfather took my father for a hike up Blue Mountain in the Adirondacks. Forty years later, my father took me up Blue Mountain. Now it’s another forty years…
We’d decided we wanted to go on a camping trip as a family, and at some point we realized [...]