by CJ | Dec 7, 2010 | Journal
20 attempts inside two minutes is a new record. You have to wonder what they’re up to. See how privileged y’all are? The robots are standing outside battering in vain at the gates, but you can get there whenever you like. Just click those ruby...
by CJ | Dec 7, 2010 | Journal
Just thank goodness it was no worse. We have one unspecified illness—which could be concussion: you can start throwing up after a hit on the head a day ago, and that can be a lasting problem. They’re not saying. We had someone—a professional—...
by CJ | Dec 6, 2010 | Journal
Buy bulk cinnamon bark. Break off an inch and drop in hot liquid: coffee, tea, water, cocoa, etc. If you don’t use real milk, you can go on using it for hours and hours. It immediately sinks to the bottom and lies there exuding cinnamon-y goodness and it just...
by CJ | Dec 5, 2010 | Journal
There’d just been too many interruptions on the Bren book—had to go back yet one more time and sort. Now I’m much happier. Making good progress. Things are making the sense I wanted them to. Got together with Lynn last night, long phone call. Which...
by CJ | Dec 5, 2010 | Journal
…family member of a friend. We found out way close to the moment, and ended up dashing down to a church for the funeral, then out to lunch with Joan. We may or may not get the tree up today: got a lot of work to do, of every sort, office work, writing-work,...
by CJ | Dec 3, 2010 | Journal
So Jane and I and Steve and Tracey all showed up, somewhat annoyed to find no available ice. But we got the grocery shopping done. We may go out with Joan to lunch tomorrow, just for a non-cooking holiday. We bought 26.00 worth of bargain chicken, and Jane is in there...
by CJ | Dec 2, 2010 | Journal
Apparently there’s more than one way to build a DNA molecule. And here I shout, “I knew it!” and smile broadly. Arsenic, would you believe? It’s from Mono Lake. One of my unguessable career bits was on the RNA thing—nothing too elevated;...
by CJ | Dec 2, 2010 | Journal
…off our roofs. I figure the church over there will go first, that and the flat roofed sections of the house across the street. But that snow was incredibly heavy and wet: a shovelful was a strain to lift, and I’m in pretty good shape. Last Snowpocalypse,...
by CJ | Dec 1, 2010 | Journal
Facebook was just getting more and more full of silly and just not the community this place is. So I’m devoting myself to the blog and to Closed Circle, which is where I’d rather be. Jane and I came to that conclusion pretty well a month ago, but hung on...
by CJ | Dec 1, 2010 | Journal
Facebook was just getting more and more full of silly and just not the community this place is. So I’m devoting myself to the blog and to Closed Circle, which is where I’d rather be. Jane and I came to that conclusion pretty well a month ago, but hung on...
by CJ | Dec 1, 2010 | Journal
The massive flowering quince that shades my bedroom totally collapsed flat. The snowplows just threw up a three foot berm across our drive, and Jane has thrown her back out, not unrelated to shoveling, I fear, but it looks as if this storm is mine. As soon as...
