by CJ | Nov 30, 2011 | Journal
I, however, got chilled. There’s something about perpetually being exposed to 32 degree cold: you don’t get cold, really. But it’s the better part of two years since I’ve been that much on the ice, and the rink was, shall we say, hyper...
by CJ | Nov 25, 2011 | Journal
For those of you overseas, Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29 We started out sharing an omelette at the Swinging Doors, our favorite pub: they had 50 dollar gift cards for 25 if you showed up at 7 for...
by CJ | Nov 24, 2011 | Journal
May you have fair, or at least interesting, skies—enough to eat and a warm spot in your heart. Here, we have snow melt and only rain, which means no shoveling (we’ve had so much rain if the early cold had persisted, we’d have had five feet of...
by CJ | Nov 22, 2011 | Journal
Sad to hear. Massive stroke, gone the next day. She was an active woman physically and mentally, and a kind woman who loved her readers and her friends and most all of the world around her. To those who never met her, you’d have liked her. If you like at least...
by CJ | Nov 21, 2011 | Journal
Cern is asking—did it happen? Or is there an error? Or is there a situation we don’t understand?
by CJ | Nov 19, 2011 | Journal
WE had a 17 car pileup at the bottom of one of our hills—we aren’t San Francisco, but on an icy day, we have significant hills. We’re tucked in not going anywhere. Which is a good thing. We’re really glad to be tucked in not going anywhere....
by CJ | Nov 18, 2011 | Journal
…but don’t trust it. I have every confidence it’s coming. There’s some potent cold air up in those hills. Mostly we’re just kind of nothing today. I want to go back to bed, and may for a while. I haven’t got two functioning brain...
by CJ | Nov 18, 2011 | Journal
…but don’t trust it. I have every confidence it’s coming. There’s some potent cold air up in those hills. Mostly we’re just kind of nothing today. I want to go back to bed, and may for a while. I haven’t got two functioning brain...
by CJ | Nov 17, 2011 | Journal
we’ve got the snowblower by the back door. Jane is baking an apple pie with a recipe that involves whiskey. We could accumulate 8″ over the next few days, and OSG could get more than that, living a couple of hundred feet higher. For those of you in the...
by CJ | Nov 16, 2011 | Journal
I’ve been in such awful pain from that old shoulder injury—I mean, if I stub my toe on the sidewalk, the inertial jolt of that shoulder has been so bad it makes your mouth water and the sky change colors—and the thought of falling on the rink has...
by CJ | Nov 16, 2011 | Journal
The link follows: the Star of India, launched originally as the Euterpe, (Muse of Song and Dance), under full sail. This is the oldest working ship afloat. These old ships, made generally of oak, have gotten quite fragile and are rarely risked except on a calm day....
by CJ | Nov 14, 2011 | Journal
I wonder if some kind people who have time and can lay hands on certain books would scan in some maps from the various series: these are a reasonable thing to have as a feature on Wave, so people have access to the maps, since Kindle doesn’t render graphics. If...
