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Necessity is a mother. So is Nature.

I lived in NH for the Blizzard of ‘78. I went to college in Syracuse. I resided in Minneapolis for the Halloween Blizzard of ‘91 and the ensuing horrific winter. I know snow.

This, children, is a blizzard.

We’ve been without cable or internet since Saturday. Crews were pulled from the roads in MD, VA, and [...]

Marred for life.

I am using the last of my precious winter break Metro time to do some pleasure reading. Having sated myself on crime fiction, I got Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan from the library (which I thoroughly enjoyed – highly recommended to people who like YA, adventure, steampunk, alternate history, or breathing) and ripped through it in about [...]

Yet more snow

Our crazy snow dog/porpoise.

Music: Shira Kammen, “Le Brandevin – Holly and his Merry Men – Angelus ad Verginem” used under a Creative Commons license.

Also, the bundt cake atop our picnic table:

Anyone for Scrabble?

Because we’re not going anywhere anytime soon.

The great Julekake lamination of aught-nine.

As with last year, I made Julekake this year. The big difference is I got off my hind end and decided to experiment. My grandmother’s recipe makes five full-size loaves at one go. This is a quantity of dough that swamps my stand mixer and, in the words of my mother, “You don’t knead it, [...]

Newton. That bastard.

In the last month or so, I have:

Gotten a ridiculous amount done at work
Written two papers for school and the outline for a third
Done I-don’t-know-how-many homework assignments
Managed (in tandem with John) to keep the house from exploding (no small feat when it is also home to four furry critters)
Thrown our big household party of the [...]

Laughter, drifting down from on high

This week is one of those funny, stubby weeks – a few days of work, a few days off, John is picking up my mom from the airport and working an odd, late day tomorrow due to a faculty senate meeting.

As a result, we have that semi-giddy, let-off-the-leash feeling you get when life is off [...]

Overheard at our house, sci fi edition

“Is that the guy from the hive thing?”

“‘Every sci fi show has a hive of some kind. Can you narrow that down for me?”

Overheard on a recent visit to friends, Silicon Valley geek edition

“You know, as we were driving up to your house, we almost couldn’t find your exit?”

“Really?”

“Yeah – it’s 404.”

…

groan.

He’s a magic man…

I got a Wii console for my 40th birthday – because though I may be 40, inside I am 12. I generally use it to work out (EA Sports Fitness – though occasionally glitchy – is surprisingly intense), though I did get sucked into “World of Goo” on a friend’s recommendation. Other than that, we [...]

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