The jam cookies are done! and there’s a lot of them, 250+ My weight is up 1/2 pound. We went and got our wedding rings and the jeweler was mean to us. That’s smiley/frownie style – but (unfortunately?) I am a grownup, so I can’t leave it there. We had a gift certificate that had … [Read more…]
I think I’m in full-scale cookie denial at the moment, and a little tired out from Thanksgiving. There’s one cookie kind (the Joy of Cooking Lebkuchen, German honey & spice bars) in the vestibule, where I store cookies, and where I am at the mercy of the weather for refrigeration. So, I could say I’m … [Read more…]
As more and more men’s past acts of sexual harassment come to light, while at the same time a percentage of people still seem committed to ignoring some of the transgressions – like Roy Moore and the current President of the United States* – I’m starting to wonder if it’s a conspiracy or maybe another … [Read more…]
This morning when I was walking, I was thinking about all those posts I haven’t written the last few weeks. There was the one about the various home repairs we’ve had recently – finally got the swale dug, so maybe the basement won’t leak. I think I might have to get the landscaper to come … [Read more…]
First, I sat in gum on the L to the apartment – I took the bus to Chicago the day before the conference, to spend the night, do a little work, and then catch a noon-ish flight to Denver from Midway. I discovered the gum at the start of my last phone call student advising … [Read more…]
Seems like I’ve been here before … I think in 2007 for the same library technology conference I’m at now, and in 2009 for the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting. The Blue Bear is still here, but the sculptor who made it died last month. I started writing this on Friday, in a session where … [Read more…]
A few years ago, our friends the Waismans bought a farm that’s only about 20 minutes from downtown Madison. There, they raise asparagus and pigs and chickens and goats, not to mention also their three kids. David Waisman and I like to joke that their pigs are pork raised by Jews, for Jews. Their first … [Read more…]