Well I must have learned something yesterday, because today I got to the pool and was able to do three whole lengths in crawl-stroke right out of the gate. Then I was entirely out of breath, so I began doing one breast-stroke length alternating with two crawl-stroke lengths, like how I ended up yesterday. It […]

I’ve been busy lately, it’s true; traveling, and being an extra, and traveling again, and getting caught up on all the stuff around the house that got ignored while I was doing all that. Even so. While Mark and I were driving to Spokane a week or so ago, we spent a long time discussing

Well I’ll be darned: the little pictures on my iPhone have words under them! Who knew?? That’s downright useful! I guess I’ve been struggling for a while, without any clue. Heh.

I was out fiddling around in the garden, and happened to check on the Area of Awful Destruction, and found this! Sorry it’s a bit fuzzy, but I wanted to get close enough so you could see the new growth! Some is long enough to make a shadow. There are three new shoots (I’m not

….at home again. I had a marvelous visit with my cousin M and her partner K in Eugene, and with my brother who was visiting Eugene and was the impetus for this-all to happen. It’s entirely unconscionable that I should have been living in Portland for over a year and this was the first time

So I can’t tell you a whole lot about the thing I did today but I can tell you what the thing was: I was an extra in a filmic endeavor. And it was fun! Totally cool. But I am not allowed to tell you what production it was or what happened as far as

Yep, traveling and going to cons really interferes with hanging-around-online time. It was lots of fun though! 🙂 SpoCon was a really nice con. I hadn’t ever been before–hadn’t even driven through the Cascades there, from Seattle, which was really lovely. Except for the weird and inexplicable traffic. Some of it was construction-related, but most

Got back to Seattle rather later than expected last night, due to a delightful lunch with friends followed by truly epic traffic on I-90 in the middle of nowhere, for no apparent reason. Ah, driving. 🙂 And now it is a lovely morning afternoon out there, and we’re not going to waste another minute of

Off to SpoCon! Don’t know how much I’ll be on line all weekend…so, everybody stay out of trouble, okay? (Don’t make me stop this car!) 🙂

Dear Washington Drivers: Tailgate me all you like, but I feel NO GUILT WHATSOEVER driving a few miles over the speed limit in the center lane. There are two other lanes you may avail yourselves of–including the one cleverly nicknamed “the fast lane.” Why don’t you go on over there and work it out? Cruise