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Running to Wells, Walgreens, dry cleaners, and Vons. In that Order!!

SomaFM is dubbing Apollo 11's ground to spacecraft communications with appropriately spacey music.

SomaFM could use some dosh, because of the bloody labels demanding a king's ransom.

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First Zappa on the radio, and now this:

( 'The Rhythm of Life' in Welsh.... )

My cup runneth over :-D

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procrastination, thy name is AM

a big bowl of cafe au lait
the happy sound of my lawn dude mowing (aka "my excuse for not loading the car since normally I'd be using the lawn to stage stuff but that would be just RUDE to spread my crap around while he's working, right?")
the plaintive sound of Archie locked in the back room (hes off his mellowing drugs for now and so cannot be trusted in the house while I'm distracted. hes destructive and beats up poor Circe with no provocation. sigh.) punctuated by the sound of him systematically tearing up the carpet under the door (did I mention destructive? again, sigh.)
large piles all over the living room floor
large piles of LISTS
the burble burble of a running dishwasher (aka "my excuse for not taking my shower yet")
a purring Circe snuggled next to me (not ON Me, as she'd like, poor girl) punctuated with periodic chirps of happiness. poor girl. she really really wants to be an only cat....

need to run to the grocery store
need to load the car
need to tidy up a bit and get the kitties set for the weekend
need to make sure I have riding togs and my freshly laundered saddle pad and girth in the car, just in case I make it home early enough to get some pony time in
need to synch the ipod to include all the Miles books I used my audible.com credits for last night :). cant think of better listening for a road trip!

very muich looking forward to a quiet weekend of socializing and playing with food and reconnecting with people. Have been feeling a bit isolated lated (my own fault, I've been putting so much time and energy into the horse and work...) and am looking to do something about that :)

we'll have a fire (thanks gwen_the_potter !!) so bring a chair and come on by Sat night :). my fourth apprentice Aleyn Smithe (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Smithee )   occasionally brings tasty non period things to toast in the fire, so please dont be shocked. I keep trying to tell him that its not period, but he never listens.

Today on WFUV is even more free-form than usual. THey just played "Peaches and Regalia" from Frank Zappa's HOT RATS. W00t!!!

thanks to the generosity of gwen_the_potter  for her braizer and given the fact that I aint got nothing to do at this event (no horses? no archery? 'kay!) we will be cooking dinner over the fire on Saturday.

if you want to come and hang over our shoulders, feel free! we should be starting around 4 or so, give or take. the menu will be Eduardos asiago stuffed pork loin (italian...epilario? cute little red haired apprentices fave), macrows (pasta with cheese, english, forme of curye), new peas in the pod (sauteed snap peas with bacon. french, le menagier. tall gothy apprentice boys fave) and maybe ramequins of cheese (cheesey goo on bread, french, la varenne)

Cedric and Elizabeths coronation court is slated for about when we were going to eat dinner, I have my fingers crossed that that will change on site :). But we will be sitting and dining en tableau (a la Ivar and j_i_m_r ) at the request of cute little red haired apprentice.

come on by!

And my editor just emailed me with the Wall Street Journal review of "Love is a Four-Letter Word" and I get mentioned. Which is kind of sweet.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204423804574290254122395972.html

1. Fear of flying therapy is annoying. I want a list of tasks to complete that will take away the phobia. Therapist refuses to provide that list. Planning on making my own list. I LIKE LISTS. (And no, I'm not going to quit going.)

2. Nursing homes, once you express actual interest in placing your parent in one of them and aren't simply "taking the tour," suddenly become all, "Well... IF we accept her and IF this meets our criteria and IF blahblahmeow." Suddenly they get all team-picky and turn it into a game of geriatric dodgeball.

3. moroccomole upgraded his iPhone and sold his old one on eBay. The turdface auction winner never contacted us back or paid. I have begun "resolution" with them to make sure they get a bad mark on their eBay permanent record. THEY WILL RUE THE DAY THEY DID NOT PAY.

4. Gays, I will DJ this Sunday night at the Eagle from 9pm until 1am. I promise that there will be no smooth song transitions unless it's on accident.

5. Reviews of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "(500) Days of Summer" are up now at Movies.com. All you need is the will to read them and the ability to go click on my face.

6. "Funny People," while I'm on the subject of movies, is really funny. Even though Adam Sandler is in it. Also it's nearly two and a half hours long. Buttocks alert.

7. Today I plan to plan my NYC museum and gallery visits. It's on my list of lists I have to make (see item # 1 above) I already have a long list of galleries and shows because I read the art magazines and go to blogs and whatnot, but does anyone in NYC have favorite galleries that show excellent stuff? I don't wanna see any chump bullshit. So think on it and report back please.

8. Are you watching the "Rotten Tomatoes" show on Current? (That's a cable channel.) You should because my husband is on it almost every week telling you about how "The Stoning of Soraya M." is dumb.

9. Oh good, I just discovered that "The Rotten Tomatoes Show" also streams on the current website. So suck it, cable providers that don't provide. And if you find yourself obsessed with my man, they even have back episodes on there, too:
http://current.com/items/90441885_br-no-cheri-i-love-you-beth-cooper-the-rotten-tomatoes-show.htm

10. Gotta make a big smoothie out of kale and chard today. A Taste-of-Lawn Shake.

I've just spoken with my boss, I am free to attend the Textile Forum the week of 8-13 September 2009. It sounds like much fun--I'll get to camp in an Iron-age style hut! Yay! Anyone want to meet me there? It sounds like a great opportunity for some major Textile geekage, and the things that Katrin has been describing in the way of stuff that she plans to sell at the market (fine silk thread, hand made iron needles, etc...) sound like toys I really want.

The reason I get to go the forum is that by coincidence that happens to be the same week that the rest of my research team are heading off to a national geology conference, and they tell me there is no point in my coming along when I can't speak Italian. I now have a bit of a plan in terms of my work here--basically I've got this month and August to get all of the background reading done and have a *good* understanding of how changes in bulk composition would be expected to change which minerals are present at what temperatures and pressures so that come the first week of September (when my boss will be done with all of his summer travel--both work-related and vacation) I will be ready to start running experiments of my own, using logic when choosing the run parameters rather than just "cook and look". He also tells me that if I want to do any traveling before September that the first 15 days in August would be a good time to do so, as he is away most of that time. So, basically, as soon as I get paid, I'm free to gallivant (so long as I keep up with the reading and learning on my own, of course)!

Mon/Tues: Eaten by Laurel stuff.

Tues night: Wonderful Bastille Day dinner! There was yummy food, wine, singing, balloons, scintillating conversation and a fabulous view.

Weds: Urban hike. I found a new router from the El Cerrito BART to North Berkeley, and it's a definite repeat. I walked up the Ohlone Greenway for a few blocks, took Portland up to the Alameda, then up Indian Rock Steps to the top of Shattuck, and Shattuck all the way down. I'll take Lizzie on that one next week.

For the later afternoon with girls, I'll take full responsibility if I have to. Though I did make them walk to Stone Mountian to walk it off. That really was my intent. No, srsly. Having sarahbellem here for a visit was as lovely as usual. Practice was quite mellow, so I got to chat with folks I usually don't get as much time in with.

Thurs: Hang out time with Sarah, Cheese Board pizza, and a little more urban hiking. Then I finished up watching "Coupling" with the boy.

Today is Apprentice Day, and we get extra visitors for the Mad Science (tm). It'll be fun.

I posted about this a couple years ago, but I just did it again and want to spread the idea around.

If you've gone on a family vacation, and you have even the slightest photo editing skills, making a design to put on a mug at CafePress or similar is a great memento. You get to see the photos regularly, they don't get messed up, and it's a useful item to boot.

I made a design for metageek's birthday, to be for him from the kids.

($11 plus shipping)

Here's the flat image that wraps around the mug:



The white words say "Happy Birthday Daddy" on them.

Via James Tauber, the band SOUR enlisted their fans around the world to use their webcams to help make a video for a song on their first EP.

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On Tuesday evening and again this evening, about an hour before the light failed I went out back with clippers and removed many dead flowers from rose bushes.  Tomorrow I will get the rest of the bushes done.   Then I can think about weeding the front, although that probably won't happen before Sunday evening.

Here is the text as broadcast, for what it's worth.

( Thoughts on the healthcare debate )

ETA: Emailed to Senators Boxer and Feinstein, Congresswoman Lofgren, and Speaker Pelosi.

( Girl Genius Comic for Friday July 17, 2009 )
Hello! I have updated the official Girl Genius news page. I've posted information about the San Diego Comicon, Volume 8 and reprints, the new MythAdventures novel collections (signed by Phil!) and our plans for our out-of-print books. Please visit!
Also, don't forget that I have set a cutoff date of July 25 for the sketch pre-order offer on Volumes Eight and Four. The sketch offer on Volumes Five and Six is still available until those books are ready.
Thank you! --Kaja <3

PPS
 

who has shipped stuff to Pennsic? can a non merchant do it? (last time I went, only merchants could but that was years ago and the website has contradictory info)

do they care if its UPS or FedEx?

whats the address?

inquring, space limited, sewing not done yet brains wanna know :)

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PS....

if EVERYONE is getting it wrong, if EVERYONE is pissing you off, if EVERYONE is being stupid?

maybe it's not them

just sayin'.