Wednesday, December 27, 2006
I can not tell a lie, when I did my last year in cities I thought “Eh, I can top that.” I don’t think I’d like to recreate the frenetic craziness that seemed to buzz around a lot of these trips, but they sure were fun. 2006 saw me get to my last US state [...]
Sunday, December 24, 2006
I just got out of the tub. I’m heading to dinner at friends’ in a few hours. I packed my sister off towards home a few hours ago. We had a great time helping each other out with dopey projects and also just hanging out, eating good food and constantly remarking on the weather (”weirdly [...]
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
So I’ve been experimenting with long shutter exposures on my camera and going out at night and trying to take some pictures, just me and my trusty flashlight freaking out the neighbors. Well it might be freaking them out if everyone didn’t go to sleep around ten, so unless I wake the dog up, I’m [...]
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
I just installed wireless in the Tunbridge Public Library today and am quite pleased with myself.
For readers of this who are friends with Greg, he had a bad bike accident last week (just him, no cars involved) and cracked his hip/femur. I found out through a pretty roundabout way involving someone from work posting something [...]
Thursday, December 7, 2006
A friend IMed me yesterday and said “Your blog misses you.” This is funny, since I see this friend fairly often, but I got the idea. It’s a big black box, me being here in this house when I’m not travelling or teaching and when I’m hunkering down with a writing project I all but [...]
Thursday, November 30, 2006
It seems like I’ve spent all week with people from MetaFilter, but really the people who are part of my real life here also seem to be part of MetaFilter. The weather stripping and insulating plan is going great except that it was 65 degrees today which made me feel a little silly unscrewing all [...]
Monday, November 27, 2006
I am serious about this. This is what I did today. I gave myself a ton of weather stripping, window plastic, outlet and switch covers, and a cover for the fan in the kitchen. I spent a leisurely evening putting tape around every window in the place. I am not joking. Ola is a wonderful [...]
