The carnival at the end of the Festival of Lights Happy New Year, all. The new year comes with a number of changes for us. The first and foremost of which is that we now have a new (i.e. different) car. Our 1995 Silhouette is going away and a beautiful 2001 Odyssey is taking…
I meant to post our first Great Books column today…but life got in the way and the time was spent helping friends and neighbors, as well as doing some last minute Christmas shopping. So, to make things easier, I think I’ll just take a hiatus until the New Year. The first Wednesday of the New…
Missing Dresden? Body twitching and hands trembling as you contemplate the months you need to wait for your next Butcher fix? Try Ken Harmon’s The Fat Man, A tale of North Pole Noir. Gumdrop Coal, the elf in charge of Santa’s Coal Patrol, has just been fired. As the flap says: “North Pole…
It’s bad enough that The Rabbit keeps eating the couch, but I just caught him eating a fairy again. First it was Sally Candleglow. Now Honey Nevermint. You think the fairies would learn and stay on the wall where they are safe. comments
It’s so cool!!! Orville and Ping-Ping in last year’s first big snow…as Ping-Ping learns to throw snowballs In particular, Orville and Ping-Ping are talking. They are just saying a few things, but they never used to talk to each other at all. Orville is the most word-oriented of the bunch and Ping-Ping’s English did…
A kind reader took exception to my comment about Burroughs not being able to do anything else except write and sent me this fascinating link about Burrough’s life. Apparently, he was quite successful in his early life and only got into trouble when he set off on his own. On the other hand, his deterimnation…
Kirkus’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2010 includes in their list Side Jobs, Harry Dresden short story book, and…Prospero In Hell! Cool. (Thanks to Prince Jvstin for bringing this to my attention!) comments
Well, well, well. Ping-Ping is downstairs on the computer…and I’m up here ON THE COMPUTER!!! Woohoo!!! comments
We went to see the new Narian movie. A friend gave us three free tickets that were about to expire, so it wasn’t too expensive. The movie was utterly stunning looking and they did a clever job of taking elements from the original story and rearranging them to produce a plot that drove the story…
Okay…we got a new (used) computer, so that the children can have their own computer and so that Ping-Ping’s unprotected Chinese websites won’t infect our work computer anymore. I got it home and I can’t get online. I have two ethernet cables. I tried the old computer on both and could get online with both.…