Toad-strangler

Spokanites are pretty good with ice and snow. Yesterday, however, we had one of those Oklahoma toad-stranglers, aka, a tropical style rain, greys out the distance, comes down hard, and fills streets to the curbs because it’s too much for the drains to handle. We...

Closed Circle is 'sold out' of Intruder

Those who are sending physical checks on manual orders, we have set your books aside and they are waiting for you. For those who missed this sale, alas, don’t count on us getting more of this title: these are just what we have and when these are gone they are...

Closed Circle is ‘sold out’ of Intruder

Those who are sending physical checks on manual orders, we have set your books aside and they are waiting for you. For those who missed this sale, alas, don’t count on us getting more of this title: these are just what we have and when these are gone they are...

Encyclopaedia Britannica goes to e-pub only.

244 years they’ve been at this—and the next edition will be the last physical edition. http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/13/technology/encyclopedia-britannica-books/index.htm?cnn=yes&hpt=hp_t3 Wiki, the internet and the need for constant updating have...

Daylight Savings Time…and spring has sprung…

The kittehs: due to extreme kitteh terrorism and the climbing ability of Shu-shu—if he had Seishi’s thumbs it would all be over—we have gotten very strict about 8 am feeding time…no budge in that hour.  Today they are smug. They think they won...

Rolling!

Finally! I think it’s getting all the work done and Jane getting back at writing and everything all at once—I haven’t hit stretches where I just don’t want to quit in the evening (and actually keep going) in years. Life is good. And—I saw...