Challenge

Tomorrow, I get to figure out how to separate lines, each consisting of a string of text followed by a row of numbers, into separate text and number columns. I mean, I know how to do that, but I don't know how to do that for 10,000 lines at once when the text strings are all different lengths and have a variety of terminal letters. Oh, and there are numbers mixed into the text strings.

If anyone has any ideas, let me know.


Today's earrings: tree frogs, fish

Bedtime reading: Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman

I had no idea

Look familiar? It seems to be a common subject in skater film.
(Which you should not watch if you don't want to see people wipe out onto the concrete below. Skaters are nuts.)


Today's earrings: tree frogs, coins

Bedtime reading: Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman

N.B.

Next week, someone remind me to talk to Josh about the Caribbean.


Today's earrings: tree frogs, leaves

Bedtime reading: Jingo, Terry Pratchett

Lyman

It struck me as I picked up tonight's reading material that there used to be a lot more people named Lyman. I checked the Baby Name Voyager for confirmation - Lyman was the 344th most popular name for boys in the 1880s and has been dropping ever since. Who were those kids named for, I wonder? The Lymans in Wikipedia either post-date the name's popularity or don't seem all that impressive.

It's a mystery.


Today's earrings: tree frogs, swirly aqua beads

Bedtime reading: L. Frank Baum, Katharine M. Rogers

Call for holiday wish lists

I want exotic foodstuffs in attractive jars, representational silver earrings, publications about bees, the eye of the needle, and something else I forget, and tchochkes representing fruits and flowers that start with P.
I reserve the right to expand this list at a later date.

What do you want for Christmas?


Today's earrings: tree frogs, fish

Bedtime reading: Rethinking Thin, Gina Kolata

Lipids: nourishing the spirit

Stopped on the way home to pick up the Wandering Albatross's Christmas present* and found this. So cute! I went on to dine at Fancy Restaurant, and had the cheese plate. (Always have the cheese plate, my friends.) Included was a section of a "crocodile tear" from Capriole. Utterly swoonworthy. They have sampler boxes. Christmas is coming. I'm just saying.


Today's earrings: tree frogs, circles of tangled green and yellow

Bedtime reading: Rethinking Thin, Gina Kolata
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*He asked for something that starts with the letter V, so he's getting Giant Microbe VD. I don't think this'll spoil the surprise because I don't think he's reading here. But, just to preserve a little mystery in case I'm wrong, I'm not going to say which disease I'm giving him.

So to speak.

We are here

Today's earrings: tree frogs, blue & green swirly beads

Bedtime reading: The Atlantic, November 2007