Portland has an old tradition of the Rose Festival and the Rose parade. Part of the Rose Parade tradition is that it always rains on the day of the parade. So, what day did we pick for our yard sale? Parade Day! We’ve had some customers, but not as many as we would like. The […]
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Thanks to Google Maps new street view feature, you can see the front door of the apartment we are moving to. As a friend of mine said, “It’s like living in the future.” On the one hand, keen! On the other hand, it’s a little creepy. I mean, is that a neighbor walking past the
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Am I offbase in being annoyed about this? When I dropped my computer off, the guy at the desk said it would be ready in a week. That was eight days ago, so I thought I could reasonably expect it to be finished today. I called to see when I could pick it up. 1)
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We moved into the guest room, which now has the distinction of being the only room in our house without boxes. We also moved the new tansu in there to use for our clothes, figuring that we’ll just pack the clothing in the tansu for the move. So, while the room has our bed, rug,
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I’ve just backed up my computer and it’s going into the shop for some minor repairs. The DVD/CD drive stopped working last year and I haven’t had enough down time to take it in. The shop tells me that they’ll have my computer for five or six days. We have Rob’s computer, of course, but
As I mentioned, Rob and I went to the farmer’s market yesterday and picked up some mushrooms. Then, today, in a splendiferous surprise, our plaster repair man came by and gave us a quart bag of morels. It seems that he always picks a freezer full of them when he goes on his vacation. He’d
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Today was a really wonderful day. We went to pick up a tansu chest that replaces the dressers we had in our bedroom. Our goal is to only have furniture that we both like. There are a couple of exceptions for sentimental reasons, but very few. After that, we biked down to the farmers market.
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We recorded the last of the chapters for the Subterranean project today. Rob still has to finish editing it, but my end is mostly done. I’m a little worried that we may have to go back and re-record some of the Spaniard’s lines in the pre-Ricardo Montalban chapters for consistency, but hopefully not. I am,
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Our front yard looks so pretty when I crop out the grass that needs mowing.
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Holy Batcave! I want a set of Secret Bookcase Doors. How cool is that? Book storage and secret passage! Oh, I covet mightily. Hey–! That could solve the storage problems in our kitchen, which has five doors and no cabinetry. I wonder how much weight they can hold and how smoothly they move. Hm…
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The Table of Contents for the Best of Apex 2006 anthology is out. The list is final. The decision has been made. We are publishing the following stories in this year’s Best of Apex 2006 collection. Blood Baby – Jennifer Pelland The Queen of Stars – Bryn Sparks That Old Sandlands Fever – Douglas F.
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A fellow writer turns out to be a handy woodworker. Check out this violin chair that Gray Rhinehart made. The “Take a Seat” exhibition opened on Saturday, April 28th at Cary’s “Spring Daze” event. The chairs will be exhibited in the local mall (Cary Towne Center) through May 16th, then over the rest of the
The article that I modeled for is out today. David Chelsea does the art for the Modern Love column at the NY Times and asked me to pose for this. It’s not my face; he morphed me with the author of the article. How My Plumber Turned Water Into Wine – New York Times I
This fellow came by today to look at removing the linoleum from the rooms on our second floor. It’s one of those things that I’ve been wanting to have done since day one of owning this house. The guy we are doing the house swap with has offered to refinish the floors, so we’re doing
The battery in our smoke detector died. I pulled it out and set it on the kitchen counter while looking for a new one. Rob wandered in, picked up the battery and stuck it on his tongue. While he claims that this is a valid method for testing, I don’t know anyone else who taste
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