Sunday morning it was the OCLC update breakfast – a chance to hear about what’s new at the big global library consortium, delivered in a talk by the president and CEO. For as long as I’ve been going to these, probably about 15 years, OCLC has had the same president, a guy named Jay […]
So let’s see – got here on Thursday night around 9:00 – the plane landed around 7:45 but it took kind of a while to get into the city and checked in to the room. We’ve been spoiled by staying at boutique hotels like Kimptons. This is an Embassy Suites – huge cavernous space with […]
Smiting leftovers at every turn. Woke up this morning and started plotting how to use up the sad leftovers in the fridge. I think I ended up with a pretty good plan. The last of the potato gratin and the one leftover baked potato from last night – that was itself the last of the […]
With very few pictures. Monday we had leftover lasagna, with salad & garlic toast on the no knead bread I made Saturday. I tried to go easy on the lasagna and eat a lot of salad, but Rach came back with Trader Joe’s chocolate and I had to have some. She quoted one her grandmas […]
All through the holidays I kept having this feeling that this year, things were just different, somehow. I wasn’t as driven, maybe. I didn’t make cookies over when they didn’t come out right. I think I took less cookie-process pictures. I searched my blog archives, and started seeing similar posts from prior years, so I […]
I’m not sure, but think I like the vortex better. When it’s this little bit warmer, but damp, the cold seems more penetrating. Today we are having freezing fog. And now, for the walk home, it is black dark at 4:36 PM, with a mix of rain & snow.
The public schools already long-seeming Christmas break because of the way the holidays fell got extended by two days due to extreme cold. Today, Wednesday, was the kids’ first day back. At work, everyone was saying, “oh I just want to get back to normal”. Somebody on facebook said today was her first alarm […]
OK, so it’s above zero out – just – something like 3°. But it’s 55º in the downstairs and 64º up. Yesterday when we got up, Mark’s furnace – the 2nd floor one – wasn’t working. We coaxed it back on, and the upstairs returned to normal temps. Then, around 5:00 in the evening, the […]