by CJ | Apr 15, 2010 | Journal
Didn’t fall down today. Not too sore, considering. But Jane and I are both tired of starving ourselves and still not losing weight. So we are undertaking a new weight loss push. I hate walking. I hate walking with a passion. But Jane loses weight best when she...
by CJ | Apr 14, 2010 | Journal
—boomf. I tossed the current pair of jeans-that-fit into the wash, and substituted the light rayon baggy track pants that look like hell. Worse, I tried to skate in them. Funny thing. You wear tight jeans on the ice, you get a sense of support for your muscles....
by CJ | Apr 13, 2010 | Journal
…detected one scummy spammer. Got ‘er. Deleted. Dead ‘un. I’m not sure I wouldn’t have figured it out from her initial post, eh? So much for the efficacy of the spamfilter.
by CJ | Apr 12, 2010 | Journal
But the Muck Vac I got for the pool doesn’t work. Serious disappointment. I don’t know if I can get them to take it back but it’s a POS. It’s like trying to clean a beach with a toothbrush, re the power that thing doesn’t have. We skated...
by CJ | Apr 11, 2010 | Journal
Is to go through and slice out bits and put them where they need to be. This is the 52-card-pickup phase. Young writers are frequently stunned to know that WHEN things happen is not really the plot. The plot is why things happen. And you can actually move events...
by CJ | Apr 11, 2010 | Journal
You may know that she’s been working from 5 am literally until 11pm for the last week to make fonts behave in the e-books, and to be legal and proper with the copyrights of the font designers and marketers and not pirate them, by their definitions: ie, you...
by CJ | Apr 11, 2010 | Journal
You may know that she’s been working from 5 am literally until 11pm for the last week to make fonts behave in the e-books, and to be legal and proper with the copyrights of the font designers and marketers and not pirate them, by their definitions: ie, you...
by CJ | Apr 9, 2010 | Journal
She thinks she’s found the problem…
by CJ | Apr 9, 2010 | Journal
She thinks she’s found the problem…
by CJ | Apr 9, 2010 | Journal
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/09/fashion.shoes.heels/index.html?hpt=C2 Yep, hotel stairs, uneven tiles, you name it. Teens, perpetually curious and anxious to be ‘in’, will try it…some of them novices to high heels. Sigh. I routinely balance on...
by CJ | Apr 9, 2010 | Journal
We have a low attic. Neither of us is up to shinnying up through the access in the top of a closet and ploughing through the insulation and dust to cut a hole in the kitchen ceiling. We have a fan up there, which doesn’t do much of a job. And broiling requires...
by CJ | Apr 8, 2010 | Journal
Her favorite charity was anything to do with kids’ cancer charities—google that phrase will get you a selection if you would like to make a donation in her name, for which I think Azureblu is sufficient, respecting how she chose to be known here. The...