by CJ | Dec 14, 2010 | Journal
The Pineapple Express is tropical rain, sweeping up from Hawaii. This morning we’re being deluged in sheets and waves, the sort of thing you normally see in the near-tropic South, on the Gulf, and this end of Washington is already having flooding from the sudden...
by CJ | Dec 13, 2010 | Journal
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/13dec_globaleruption/ There’s something in Classical Studies about climate change—remember, we’re the guys [in my old academic field] that deal with the oldest written accounts and oldest...
by CJ | Dec 13, 2010 | Journal
I really worry when they come out of torpor. I’d like to see stable cold so they can sleep soundly…but they seem to be fine. I saw Ari, and Gerard, and Rukia and Amy quite clearly: the water’s kind of murky since the pump’s been off, but...
by CJ | Dec 12, 2010 | Journal
…two of the nicest folk on planet Earth. Patty had a signing at Aunties (Spokane’s largest indie bookstore, an institution in Spokane)—and we got together for Lennies’ Thai, which set my diet back 2 weeks, but the evening was worth it. We had...
by CJ | Dec 11, 2010 | Journal
Doesn’t have to be diet. But I’ll put out one that, surprisingly, is. CHICKEN MOLE: whitemeat chicken, already diced [we get an economy packet, cook it on the George Foreman grill, dice it into small Ziplocks, and freeze the leftover] ramekins for...
by CJ | Dec 10, 2010 | Journal
It’s been up to 50 degrees, melting the snowpack on the roofs considerably, which is very welcome. The koi are deep asleep under a slab of ice; and everything is still snow-covered, with dark holes where the footprints have melted down to soil. Last night we...
by CJ | Dec 9, 2010 | Journal
Woke up yesterday with a sore throat, headache, dizzy as a hoot owl, and not feeling well at all, when the two days prior I’d been on top of the world. Yep, the tree. We have to have an artificial tree: I’m so allergic to trees in general it’s...
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,...
