by CJ | Feb 2, 2014 | Journal
I commented on this on FB because I was struck by comments from a number of language-bound minds, then thought you all might enjoy it. The art of translation—as practiced by Bren Cameron — or others— is NOT a straightforward equivalency which a...
by CJ | Feb 1, 2014 | Journal
She had some 200 spammers and asked help clearing the pile. I don’t know what piece of nastiness was contained in that lot, but when I tried to clean up her list of members to her site, a category appeared that doesn’t exist on my page, and when I tried to...
by CJ | Feb 1, 2014 | Journal
She had some 200 spammers and asked help clearing the pile. I don’t know what piece of nastiness was contained in that lot, but when I tried to clean up her list of members to her site, a category appeared that doesn’t exist on my page, and when I tried to...
by CJ | Jan 31, 2014 | Journal
…Jane, bless her, got out in the darkish smalls of 5AM and lugged our garbage to the curb through 6″ of snow, while I was sleeping away. You have to read her account of Shu-shu’s stunt last night. We laughed, OMG, we laughed. And Dragon and I are...
by CJ | Jan 30, 2014 | Journal
About 5″ by this morning, fat flakes at dawn and now sifting down powder. Now I can feel we have an actual winter. I hope it stays a while, though we are running out of people food. We’re perfectly ok with cat food.
by CJ | Jan 30, 2014 | Journal
About 5″ by this morning, fat flakes at dawn and now sifting down powder. Now I can feel we have an actual winter. I hope it stays a while, though we are running out of people food. We’re perfectly ok with cat food.
by CJ | Jan 29, 2014 | Journal
Back in my teaching days, I was presented a note from admin that said we should order supplies now because it was a ‘use it or lose it’ appropriation from the legislature. So—I ordered something like a dozen boxes of chalk, because, well, teachers...
by CJ | Jan 29, 2014 | Journal
50 spammers a day is a pita—so I’m making a simple requirement. If you want to join us, and you’re very welcome to—just sign up, BUT!!!! you must make one post. This lets me know you’re real. You won’t be able to see your post until...
by CJ | Jan 29, 2014 | Journal
It’s pretty out there.
by CJ | Jan 27, 2014 | Journal
I haven’t seen 172 since the 1980’s. Jane was right: I was using about a cup of cheese a day for each of us, and it was not our friend…so I went to parmesan, not cheddar, on the morning eggs, and everything through the day quite light, and bingo! off...
by CJ | Jan 26, 2014 | Journal
…generally don’t. We have snowplows. We have coats. We’re ready for this stuff. Our sky is grey and the trees are leafless and the place is constantly sodden with condensation that should be frozen. Glug. On a brighter note, the Dragon Speech thing...
by CJ | Jan 22, 2014 | Journal
Thanks to some wonderful friends. This is going to be a project, and Jane can explain it…as it develops.
