April 2007

Taste-testing 9-volts

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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Basement? Feh.

Now, why would I spend today down in our dark basement when it was gorgeous outside? That would be sheer folly. So I painted the front porch and did some weeding. I also worked on “The Bride Replete,” which is the first non-novel thing I’ve touched in ages. It feels very good. I’m not ignoring

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Welcome Baby Ellsworth!

My dear friends Chrissy and Spencer Ellsworth* have just delivered their first child. Spencer says she’s eight pounds, very pretty and somewhat purple. Mom and baby are happy and healthy, Spencer is a nervous wreck. Spencer had his laptop in the room while he and Chrissy were waiting through the thirteen hours of labor. Periodically

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Folding Webcam!

Yes, I’m a sucker for folding things. I ordered a folding webcam last week and it arrived today. So much fun. And its resolution is better than my old one. Where’s my old one, you might ask? It’s in the boxes of things that we had shipped from Iceland to NYC and is waiting for

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Wine Geeks in Action

I’m in the kitchen cooking. My husband is on the phone with his friend, Wayne. He says, “Yeah, we did some barrel tasting. They’re really slutty right now.” I stopped what I was doing. “Did you say ‘slutty?’” He drops the phone long enough to say, “Yeah. Like California wines. Big, cheap, flashy… you know,

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Handmade Puppet Deams

I’ve been meaning to blog about this for awhile, but now I have a really, really good reason. Go watch the trailer for Handmade Puppet Deams. This is a collection of short puppet films curated by Heather Henson (Jim Henson’s daughter) and the trailer shows some of the most exciting puppetry I’ve seen. There is

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