Full moon

The celebratory hosts sweep to and fro beneath my windows. I wonder if they're having as much fun as they were told to expect?


Today's earrings: amethysts

Bedtime reading: Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?, R.A. Lafferty

Eternal vigilance, or, someone should hire some proofreaders

The USITC posted fourteen changes today, and five of those changes have conspicuous errors. There may be more mistakes that I just haven't found yet.

*sigh*


Today's earrings: eyes, liberty dimes

Bedtime reading: Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?, R.A. Lafferty

Who's on first?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M


Today's earrings: leaves, other leaves

Bedtime reading: Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?, R.A. Lafferty

Aphorism

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
-- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec


Today's earrings: snowflakes, suns

Bedtime reading: Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?, R.A. Lafferty

Boxing Day

In the morning I boxed up the superfluous china and banished it to the basement.

In the afternoon, I opened three more boxes of books (pocket fiction, Andrews-Davies; religion, fortune-telling, and card games; playing cards and fragile miscellany).

In the evening, I had b2 and L over for wine and snacks. We got dinner in Chinatown and then went to the Buena Vista for Irish Coffees. We took the cable car home.


Today's earrings: gingerbread men, brooms

Bedtime reading: Brewing Up a Storm, Emma Lathen

A feast day of my people

We had brunch. :)

There were many small and lovely things in my stocking. M won at Scrabble (but if we'd applied the proposed 'yule rule' things might have been different). K&S called from Copenhagen - sounds like they were enjoying the Danish. CC and I watched "Sing Faster" in the living room while AL and M watched Schoolhouse Rock in the family room. Later we all joined in watching "Galaxy Quest" and eating cheese.


Today's earrings: flies, amber

Bedtime reading: Brewing Up a Storm, Emma Lathen

Christmas eve

I have stocking stuffers & cheese prepped and ready to go.

I know where my stocking is.


Today's earrings: polar bears, black bears

Bedtime reading: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling

Bookcases

I want one that's 32" wide and eight feet tall, and one that's 8 feet long and about 40" high. I'm thinking about Ikea for the tall one. Or should I wait until I find a giant bookcase that's not disposable? Decisions, decisions.


Today's earrings: sparkly turtles, plain turtles

Bedtime reading: Proof, Dick Francis

Happy Solstice

Today's earrings: coffee cups, suns

Bedtime reading: Proof, Dick Francis

Survivor wrap up

Natalie beat Russell and Mick in the final vote. This is huge, people. The last time a woman beat a man in the finals was All-Stars. Eleven seasons ago.

Sadly, the production team decided not enlighten us as to how Natalie accomplished this feat. They felt their time was better spent further fluffing Russell's ego. The production team makes me sad.


Today's earrings: llamas, chickens

Bedtime reading: Proof, Dick Francis

Today in book boxes

Paperbacks, King-Maron; hardcovers, Henderson-Nordoff&Hall; mixed box of Gorey and vintage paperbacks, including some armed services editions.


Today's earrings: mice, moonstones

Bedtime reading: Slay Ride, Dick Francis

Today's bright idea

I'm thinking about putting a long flourescent tube on top of the bookcase/room divider. Not sure if it'd be bright enough, or maybe too bright? Fret. It would be fairly fast, cheap, and easy, though.


Today's earrings: roses, flowers

Bedtime reading: Slay Ride, Dick Francis

Today I lay in bed way late

And it was great, but then I finally got up and rushrushrush firsttwopairofmatchingearrings outthedoor.

Time to sort out the earring array.
And box the china.


Today's earrings: moose, zodiacs

Bedtime reading: "Fortune's Smile," James McManus

Another three boxes

Two boxes of miscellany, including but not limited to art, humor, etiquette, poetry, children's books, food & cooking, history, and cartomancy.

One box of Gorey. I still haven't gotten the china out of the Gorey cabinet, so I didn't unpack the box. That's the third box o' Gorey that's still lingering unpacked. I should do something about the china. Like, this weekend.


Today's earrings: amethysts

Bedtime reading: "Fortune's Smile," James McManus

Nesting

This weekend, I got almost all my paper tucked into discreet little black boxes that fit neatly into the fronts of the window seats. And it is good.

But I keep thinking up more stuff to want. It's not good.


Today's earrings: eyes, liberty dimes

Bedtime reading: Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett

Silver lining

The system was so slow today I had time to watch this while waiting for something to save. And then this. And so on.


Today's earrings: frogs, trees

Bedtime reading: Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett

Dental work

Today I got a temporary crown. I'm a bit throbby.


No earrings today

Bedtime reading: Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett

Gang aft agley

I was planning to take the underground home. It is very cold out, and it's warmer to wait underground. But "Muni subway service has been disrupted due to overhead wires being down at Van Ness Station in the inbound direction." So I took a jam-packed maroon and cream trolley home, instead. I was lucky to get aboard.

That model has very narrow aisles.


Today's earrings: spiders, webs

Bedtime reading: Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett

3-2-1

Three boxes of books up from the basement: two of paperback fiction, Francis-Innes and Innes-King; one of sociology & linguistics, including a dictionary, a thesaurus, and JC Cooper's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols. The place feels much homier.

Two new books acquired on the way home: Terry Pratchett's just-out Unseen Academicals, and Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. I had a lovely chat with the bookstore clerk, in which I advised her to read Butler's Bloodchild,* but not if she had any other heavy emotional stuff going on that month.

One Christmas card from S&T in beautiful Hawaii. My first at the new address! Love you guys. :)


Today's earrings: pine trees, brass triangles

Bedtime reading: Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett


*I realized much later that I'd meant Kindred. Bloodchild is mindblowing in its way, but nowhere near as heavy as Kindred.

Commuting

This morning I rode an orange trolley to work.

After work, I took a cable car to the market. It was decorated with blue lights on the outside and snowbirds, snowflakes, and white tinsel streamers on the inside.

I caught a just-plain-bus home from the market.


Today's earrings: monkeys, chickens

Bedtime reading: Rituals of the Season, Margaret Maron

Weekend agenda

Hang clothesline
Pack away some of the china
Move books upstairs to make room in the basement for the china
Deal with accumulated correspondence
Bask.



Today's earrings: diamonds, dinosaurs

Bedtime reading: Rituals of the Season, Margaret Maron

Dropped off the keys to the old place

It was a pretty good place.

Soon someone else will live there. I hope they enjoy it.


Today's earrings: amethysts

Bedtime reading: Rituals of the Season, Margaret Maron

Outlet mall across the street

Or that's the plan, anyway.

Community meeting highlights included my realtor asking pointed questions about parking, and a couple of dudes who asked self-important pseudo-questions about the architecture. Dude. It's an outlet mall replacing a bunch of derelict buildings. Better it should be a wall of glass than a faked-up pretense of Edwardiana.

After the meeting I fell into conversation with the designer of the Stevenson Street face-lift. I'm sorry to say I let my dubiousness about the micro-vendor spaces show, and then failed to add that I'm all for the project and didn't have any better suggestions. After I came home and looked at a map, I did come up with something: get the city to put a crosswalk with a full-scale stoplight in between the end of Stevenson and the entrance to the San Francisco Center. That would make Stevenson a shortcut from the new shops to the mall *and* to the parking garage on Mission.


Today's earrings: elephants, ebony drops

Bedtime reading: Rituals of the Season, Margaret Maron

First three boxes of books up from the basement

One box of Gorey and two of hardcover fiction (Maron-Muller; Rowling-Tolkin & misc children's).


Today's earrings: flowers, other flowers

Bedtime reading: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, L. Frank Baum