Whining
This is the road between me and town. I really like it. It looks a bit scruffy right now. It’s sort of between summer and fall. In high summer it’s an amazing canopy of green for us to drive through. […]
Superpowers
I started on a new knitting project, a Christmas present scarf. I have Crazy Aunt Purl’s speical filter enabled. It doesn’t allow recipients to see their own gifts. You can therefore be sure that, if you can see it, it’s […]
Lunch Date on a Work Day
I had an oDesk assignment yesterday — twelve hours to complete by Tuesday, so apart from the usual blogging and analytics and stuff, that was all I had scheduled for the day. Oh — and that lunch date. And […]
My New Life
Wednesday I had a meeting with The Computer Guy and clients, plied the Dark Art on behalf of a few clients, headed out for rehearsals, and then came home to grade papers. Yesterday I taught my class, had a client […]
The Biker Festival
It’s the weekend of the biker festival in our town. We have about 70,000 inhabitants, counting the students, and this weekend we will have 300,000 bikers visiting us. We will be severely outnumbered. As a town, we’re ambivalent about this […]
Stressful Moments
Yesterday had a stressful moment. I was working hard all day, though most of the work wasn’t billable. I know that I need to set goals for my business, but I’m not sure whether they should include having a higher […]
Office and Cake
We met my parents for lunch after church yesterday, always fun. I think I did more than my share of the talking, and was particularly boring on the subject of my new website. Following that, and some recovery from said […]
Big Projects
Two very large projects reached completion yesterday. First, here’s Erin, unblocked and with just one button. This is Erin, by Alice Starmore, from The Celtic Collection. More or less. I changed from a drop-sleeve to a modified set-in sleeve, simplified […]