Half sick of blogging

This daily posting thing has gotten tiresome. I've been planning on sticking it out to 1000 posts and closing up shop, but that's another five months. I'm not sure I want to keep slogging on just because of a culturally dictated fetish for base 10, you know?

Anyway - sometime soon, I'll be moving the daily earring report to facebook and only posting here when I actually have something to say.

RSN.


Today's earrings: boots, brooms

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Forest

Today's earrings: pines, trees

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Shiny monkeys

Today's earrings: monkeys, suns

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R. A. Lafferty

Best excuse ever

"Sorry I'm late - my root canal ran long."


Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Ecclesiastes 9:11

Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

Today's earrings: racing camels, bicycles

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Pizza 2-nite

Today's earrings: mushrooms, olive shells

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Tonight on Survivor

Week before last, JT found an immunity idol. Last week, JT and the other guys on Team Heroes conspired to pass that immunity idol to Russell, a total stranger who happened to be the last male player on Team Villains. Their rationale for this was that "obviously" the women on the Villain team were in an alliance, and Russell needed to be saved from the Evil Women.

This week, the teams merged. Villain Sandra stole a moment alone with Hero Rupert and told him the real scoop: the internal divisions of the Villains had never been along gender lines, and Sandra was the real odd one out on that team. Since Rupert and Sandra had been allies in a previous season, Rupert believed her. Since JT was very much invested in his fantasy of Evil Women, JT did not believe her. JT's conviction was bolstered by a series of not-terribly-plausible lies from Russell.

Danielle (a Villain) wins the immunity challenge. Considerable maneuvering ensues. The ex-Heroes, what with one thing and another, decide not to vote for their primary target Parvati, but for Jerri (a Villanous red shirt). The ex-Villains decide to vote for JT. After the voting, Parvati produced two immunity idols - the one JT gave Russell, which Russell gave her, plus one she'd found herself - and handed them to Sandra and Jerri. Sandra and Jerri thank Parvati and play the idols. JT voted out.

JT congratulated Russell, but not Parvati, before he left. In his final words, he said that the lesson he'd learned (from Russell lying to him) was "never trust a woman."


Today's earrings: frogs, lily pads

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

SCIENCE!

We went to see Neil DeGrasse Tyson at the Palace of Fine Art. Among the SCIENCE! he spoke of turtles all the way down (Dan'l told it better). After, we stopped at Mel's for munchies.

I think we're on for brunch this Saturday.


Today's earrings: eyes, dopamine molecules

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

The time has come

to start thinking about starting to re-catalogue my library.


Today's earrings: elephants, mice

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Couplet named

@Susan - dunno. Did it work?

Meg has it!
Amy got it, too.

So! Brunch at my place next weekend?


Today's earrings: boots, chickens

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Name that couplet

And thick and fast they came at last,
And more, and more, and more --

First person to name the poem without googling gets brunch on me.


Today's earrings: sand dollars, shells

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Previously unappreciated benefit of wearing loose skirts all the time

If you happen to spill a full Cup O' Soup in your lap, just stand up, and the hot liquid is no longer in contact with your lap.


Today's earrings: skeletal fish

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Got stuff done

Mailed my taxes, moved my computer so the sun won't be rising over it any more, even got through a decent amount of work.


Today's earrings: eyes, mailboxes

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

Clumsy

I burnt some toast bad enough to set off the smoke alarm, so I opened a window and turned on the fan and the alarm stopped beeping. Later, I dropped half my grilled cheese. I still haven't worked out how to turn off the fan without turning out the light.

*sigh*


Today's earrings: octopi, coins

Bedtime reading: My Heart Leaps Up, R.A. Lafferty

This weekend

I rearranged my living room.


Today's earrings: stools, brooms

Bedtime reading: Microserfs, Douglas Coupland

Happy Friday

I got nothing done today.


Today's earrings: amethysts

Bedtime reading: Microserfs, Douglas Coupland

You Light Up My Life

Heard this morning in Montgomery Station, live on the accordion.
Heard again this evening on the muzak in the grocery store.


Today's earrings: bees, bears

Bedtime reading: Microserfs, Douglas Coupland

Today's discovery

Did you know they make cake-batter flavored frozen yogurt? It's really good.


Today's earrings: llamas, buffalo

Bedtime reading: Microserfs, Douglas Coupland

The ground floor of City Hall

I toured it this morning. They have some nice light fixtures in the office areas.


Today's earrings: pigs, citrine drops

Bedtime reading: Microserfs, Douglas Coupland

Caught up on my appointment television

Jerri did the smart thing, which is sad because it looks like this season is going to be a rerun of last season - a truly horrible person gets to the end because he'll be easy to beat in the final, but the editors try to convince us that he gets to the end because he's the Most Brilliant Strategist in the World. *sigh*

Followed by the saddest Supernatural ever. Poor, doomed Winchesters.


Today's earrings: spiders, crows

Bedtime reading: Microserfs, Douglas Coupland

Learning experiences

It looked like rain this morning. I don't have a pair of waterproof shoes that goes with my Easter Sunday dress, so I wore a different outfit (and the amber earrings to go with it) to mass at St. Patrick's. I learned that Catholic tourists do not sing at mass, even when encouraged by the priest.


After mass, I met the gang back at my place. They peer-pressured me into changing into warmer clothes (and tree earrings) and going with them to the Muir Woods, where it was raining. I learned that a) redwood groves stay relatively dry, and b) tourists will show up to see redwoods even in the pouring rain.


We lunched in Marin. Then we went to M's, where I napped for a while. K and I went grocery shopping. We noshed on leftover Chinese takeout while playing Apples to Apples. I learned that "the ocean" is more "stunning" than "charging rhinos." Still don't get that one.

M drove us back to my place. At D's insistence, we played Scrabble. S put "CARIBOU" across two double word scores for 96 points. I made a display of poor sportsmanship.

They're leaving first thing in the morning. pout.


Today's earrings: bunnies, amber teardrops, trees


Bedtime reading: Night Shift, Terry Pratchett

Party Time! Bouncy House!

Tiger's birthday party, at M's. Much merriment. The kids spent most of their time in the firedog-shaped bouncy house. Yelling "Cupcake time!" at the top of my lungs did get them all to come spilling out. We sang, and ate cupcakes (or chocolate-chip meringues, for the observant), and then everyone went back to bouncy-bouncy-bouncy fun.

We got take out for dinner, and then M smooshed us all at Scrabble.

Very good day.


Today's earrings: gingerbread men, school buses

Bedtime reading: Night Shift, Terry Pratchett

Played hooky

S, D, and I zig-zagged across town on trolleys and cable cars, touching down at the Hyatt with the cool lobby and the cable car museum before coming to light on the Hyde Street Pier. They have some spiffy sailing vessels at the Hyde Street Pier. Then (as I had tired of waiting in the drizzle for transit) we got a cab over to Green Apple. Bookshopping ensued. We went back to my place. K&D went to M's; S and I took naps. AL showed up and we went to M's for pizza. yum.


Today's earrings: fire extinguishers, fire trucks

Bedtiem reading: Night Shift, Terry Pratchet

Up with the chickens

...and the jet-lagged. The sunrise was cloudy and pink.

I went to work, and the vacationers went to Ano Nuevo to see the seals. They also stopped to visit the roadside metal tyrannosaurs. In the evening we ate Ethiopian in the company of some pleasant mathematicians & LM. Tiger fell asleep on K in the restaurant.

Tomorrow we Explorator.


Today's earrings: coffee cups, chickens

Bedtime reading: Night Watch, Terry Pratchett