Saturday, January 27, 2007
Hey my Mom is in town! She’s asleep right now and even though I grew up in a hideously cold house, I have turned the thermostat up a few degrees just so it’s maybe not quite so icy here. We had one of the neighbors over, a guy I met through Ola named Chris, and [...]
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Saturday, January 20, 2007
What a crazy week! The week ending today started last Friday when the 2007 MIT Mystery Hunt began, at noon. From that point until about 2 am Sunday morning, I was puzzling. I posted some details on Vox but the specific are this: we came in second, I helped a little, it was terrificaly fun, [...]
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
I’m still a little woozy from the weekend. I feel like maybe I’m getting just a little bit old to pull an all-nighter, but when someone signed me up for the 2-10 am “puzzle devil” shift, how could I say no? I’m practically nocturnal here anyhow, so it was not much of a stretch.
So, we [...]
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
I’m off to the MIT Mystery Hunt (more at Wikipedia) this weekend. This will be the first time I’ve participated locally and the first time in a while that I’ve participated at all. No ALA conference in January and no boyfriend on school vacation equals time for puzzling and the first trip out of town [...]
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Check me out.
I made a little video of the crazy rushing river by my house.
I went on a walk during the crazy weather that claims to be spring or even summer but is really WINTER, I swear it.
I went bowling, cosmically, with a bunch of friends up in Barre. Not once but twice, I [...]
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Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Wesabe is probably out because you need to upload your bank statements and you can’t add money entries on your own. I don’t have an issue with uploading the statements. The only thing you can do for cash withdrawals is split the money up using tags, so you withdraw $100 and add tags for $20 [...]
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My New Year’s Resolution in 1997 was “to keep better track of what the heck was going on in my life 1) so I could remember myself and 2) so I would have something to tell the jillions of people that ask me what’s been going on lately.” That’s when and why I started this [...]
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