Monday March 31, 2008
I’m just back from a weekend in the Big City. This picture does not do justice to the City or to the driving experience. However, any time the driving experience was exciting, I was avoiding looking at it. We started […]
Saturday March 29, 2008
I’m on #2 daughter’s laptop this morning, trying to be quiet and not wake anyone. When I wake in a strange place, I just want to get up and find a cup of tea, which I have been able to […]
Friday March 28, 2008
You have to be impressed by the ability of the body to heal itself. I cut myself two weeks ago. It was one of those cuts that leaves a great big hole, but I closed it up with climbing tape, […]
Thursday March 27, 2008
Yesterday I was having stomach cramps. I whined about it to Chanthaboune, with whom I chat during the workday, but I decided to ignore it. I did lie down for a few minutes between work and my Wednesday evening marathon, […]
Wednesday March 26, 2008
I heard about GTD (David Allen’s Getting Things Done system) on NPR on February 20th. I spent a couple of weeks getting into the habit of Ubiquitous Capture. I did the Processing and the Organization (though I still haven’t reorganized my […]
Tuesday March 25, 2008
Over at Ozarque’s they’ve been having a discussion about men and women and “caregiving,” which seems to be defined to include housekeeping, caring for people directly (as in taking care of children or elderly relatives), and caring for people in the […]
Monday March 24, 2008
There is a new Knitty up, and a new Anti-Craft. I have no desire to make anything in either of them. You may wonder why, when I still have Erin on the needles, I would even be looking at other […]
Sunday March 23, 2008
My carrots cakes turned out to be very cute, though admittedly different from the professional ones in the book. I spent most of yesterday in the kitchen, but the kids went out in the evening and I read […]
Saturday March 22, 2008
The Tenebrae service went well. My solo went well, this time without microphones. There were several comments about microphones yesterday, none of which seemed related to the entry. I think maybe they were about talking rather than singing. That’s okay, […]
Friday March 21, 2008
In yesterday’s performance, the tech guy did insist I use a microphone, and then asked me to back off. “You have such a strong voice,” he said, rather as though that were a problem. Well, yes, I do have a […]