I wanted to make a longer post, but I don't have time, so let me just say:

Doing all the lunges in skating class on the same leg? Not the best idea I've ever had.



(Otherwise it was fun. I'm really getting the hang of the half-lutz, and looking forward to the spring session that starts in Feb. Salchows and toe loops!)

Had a great time at WindyCon. It's been over a year, maybe two, since I went to a con, and this was a good one for getting back into things since it had most of the stuff I liked (writers, books, people) and not much of the stuff I didn't (people...).

My trip to IKEA on the way back was less fun: didn't find an end table, but got Swedish meatballs for lunch. Win some, lose some.

Now I'm about ready to collapse. 8pm is a good bedtime, right?

20 short story rejections! Hooray!

1. Ice skating! I'm so glad I decided to sign up again this fall. I'm making a lot of progress and having fun. There are even a couple other adults who are almost in my class. (They're a level above me, so we don't interact much except in the warmup.) It's starting to feel like I can get back to where I was when I left Maryland in 2003.

2. There's been some discussion on the OWW mailing list about things seeming slow. It's funny; I think most of the people who got me to join (ie they were talking about it online and I got curious) are no longer members. For me things aren't any slower than when I joined; my participation has always been low enough that I never got tons of reviews in the first place.

But hey, if you're looking for an online crit group, now might be a good time to look at the OWW, while people are thinking about keeping newcomers by doing more reviews for them.

3. The Champaign-Urbana Writers Group needs to do more marketing. Something for me to think about in December. We have a core of involved people who are helping keep it going (thank you!), but new blood would be nice. It's strange, but people can't come to meetings if they don't know about them.

4. We've caught three more mice. J is suggesting a pet snake. Wouldn't it be nice if the orange ladybugs ate mice, or vice versa?

5. I'm going to WindyCon. fairmer and eakahler will also be there, and the first 1.5 chapters of my current novel will get ripped apart in the workshop Saturday. Should be fun. Anyone else going?

6. Five hours of yardwork this weekend. Garden and reading posts coming soon (I hope).

Bird drops bread on Large Hadron Collider, causing overheating

We are never going to get our planet-eating black hole at this rate.

A conversation in our house last night, as J was opening the anniversary card my parents sent us:

dendrophilous: My first thought when I saw the card was, "Oh, my parents are a week early." And then I remembered that it's actually tomorrow.

J: Last night, I suddenly realized I had forgotten our anniversary, and then I realized that it was ok because you'd forgotten too. And then this morning I looked at the calendar.

Happy Anniversary, J! Clearly, we're well suited.

It took me 3 years and 8 months, but I finally got my first bee (indicating I've done 50 reviews) on the OWW. That's 1.13 crits per month!

...Yeah, I'm not one of the more active members.

PALM TUNGSTEN E2

1. Connect cable and press button. Calendar, contacts, to dos, memos, and Docs to Go (word files) all sync automatically.

IPOD TOUCH

1. Connect cable. iTunes opens and syncs calendar and contacts automatically (I heard a rumor it also does music).
2. Open Things on the Touch; it syncs (to dos).
3. Open Evernote on the Touch; it syncs (memo-like objects).
4. Open Docs to Go on the Touch and the computer; press sync button.

Why can't iTunes automagically sync all the installed apps?

(But hey, now my calendars have different colors again. And Things is so. much. better. than the Palm to do application that I basically never used.)

This guy has been hanging out there every time I've gone out to water those plants for the past couple weeks. He's made a nice little divot in the grass.

And I'm glad he doesn't seem to like tomatoes or peppers.

Between the shade, the hard rains that smushed the lettuce into the dirt to rot, the bugs carving holes in the rutabaga and cabbage leaves, the squirrels digging up seeds, and something (rabbits?) taking chunks out of almost everything), I don’t think we’re going to have much to eat.

Next year, I’m digging a vegetable bed in the front lawn, since the tomatoes and peppers out there seem to be happy (there’s a lot more sun).

I’m going to build better rabbit fences too - I haven’t seen any rabbits in the garden, just the yard, but something’s eating my veggies.

(My compost pile is doing great.)

Belated garden recordkeeping:

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