Got up with a headache and nausea…oh yay!

Better now. We’re also having a spate of registrations getting past si captcha. Sigh. At least…the pond is staying crystal clear. If I felt better I’d really get after some chores that wait doing, but I’m just about marginal...

Temperatures are heading to the low 40's at night…

I don’t say we won’t have more warm weather, but it’s sure starting to look like fall. I wanted to let the koi have the high-protein food to the bottom of the small bag (improves color) but it blew over and got rained on. This is a sign....

Temperatures are heading to the low 40’s at night…

I don’t say we won’t have more warm weather, but it’s sure starting to look like fall. I wanted to let the koi have the high-protein food to the bottom of the small bag (improves color) but it blew over and got rained on. This is a sign....

I seem to be getting through the 'cold' or bug…

Pretty well. I’m not quite well, but not sick either. Drippy nose, potential for sore throat and bacterial infection if I didn’t take Theraflu and DayQuil to stop the postnasal drip. But I have. I’m sleeping late in the morning: until 8; but...

I seem to be getting through the ‘cold’ or bug…

Pretty well. I’m not quite well, but not sick either. Drippy nose, potential for sore throat and bacterial infection if I didn’t take Theraflu and DayQuil to stop the postnasal drip. But I have. I’m sleeping late in the morning: until 8; but...

Windows scam artists…

Are calling people, claiming to work for Microsoft—they don’t. They want to know details about your computer, and as much personal information as they can get. Don’t give them the time of day, literally. One called me, identified herself. Me,...

Once upon a time at Contact…

…which is a California convention that asks multiple sf writers to ‘game’ first contact… we came up with a planet in which, essentially, whale-sized (and voiced) oceanic creatures more resembling giant squid make it to spacefaring tech…...

I love planetary atmospheres—

It’s sort of like running a mixmaster and trying to decide how the eggs get distributed into the sugar and flour… Only more important. Atmospheric gyre affects oceans…in a way we didn’t realize

We went visiting over the weekend…

..with our friends Patty and Mike Briggs. Mike had a nasty cold. And now I think I do. Theraflu and Emergen-C are my friends. Jane is starting on them, too. Meanwhile I got the Matala filter cleaned out. It’s got 8 mats to wash, the finest of them weighing about...

Fall is a-coming…

Mornings are getting nippy. The koi, while active, are going to be going on winter-prep wheat germ soon. We’re looking at last bits for the garden—time to trim things up that will stay trimmed for spring, and to deprioritize those things that are going to...