Over the years as web search has taken over, there’s been a lot of talk in the library community – of which I am a member – that even though the information in the systems that libraries provide, like library catalogs and research databases of scholarly articles, is higher quality than what’s on the open … [Read more…]
I started writing this post last Sunday as Halloween 2021, continued yesterday, a week later, when nothing had gotten written except the title. So I changed it to Stuck. And now I am continuing on post-fall-back Monday morning, when it seems like I have a little extra time to write, before I go out to … [Read more…]
So this week, I started writing this post before yoga same as last week, but [thankfully] did not descend into fatness crisis again and actually stuck with and enjoyed the yoga class. I got started on taxes, sort of. At Christmas I never did boxing day and cleaned up all the papers on my desk. … [Read more…]
Sometimes negative is positive. Like Saturday morning when I got my most recent Covid test results back as negative – that’s good because it means I don’t have the virus, even after working the election almost 2 weeks ago. I waited to give it time to incubate. Sometimes positive is negative. Like this whole election … [Read more…]
Or doing a bunch of stuff half-ass-ed, more like. On Saturday morning, having it all meant biking off to the Westside Farmers Market when it was grey and windy and cold; I felt gypped because all the weather apps said the strong winds would not start until after we got back, but they started early. … [Read more…]
As I’ve complained recently, I just haven’t been photographing all the food I’ve been cooking for just the two of us. And, we’re getting to that time of year when it’s too dark in the evening to take good, natural light, food shots. I’ve been having some successes and some failures, too. So in the … [Read more…]
Watching the trainwreck that is our country at the moment. Trying to figure out something I can do …. I will be registering voters and accepting absentee ballots in a city park, and I also signed up to register students to vote on campus. And I will be an election official again. I guess that’s … [Read more…]
This week I’ve been feeling a little more optimistic that we’re going to come out of this thing OK. Different, but OK. I’ve actually seen a new, not exactly meme, but thought that more than one person is expressing, that we don’t want to get back to normal, we want to get back to better. … [Read more…]
Let’s go day by day. On Wednesday my next door neighbors got a new furnace and air conditioner installed. The air conditioner unit is in between our houses, where it’s still a muddy trench from the garage construction – the landscapers aren’t able to schedule our reconstruction work as yet due to the pandemic. Only … [Read more…]
Last night I came home from work and turned on the radio to listen to NPR while I cooked dinner (fried rice, with shredded pork & chicken, sweet peppers, carrots, scallions, peas, garlic & ginger. Just realized I forgot the egg). And entered the Twilight Zone. NPR had decided to devote coverage to a press … [Read more…]