As I come in from planting out some geraniums (ok, ok, pelargoniums…be that way…), Peter (having consulted the master online TV guide for the Sky satellite channels) tells me that…
The upgrade got put off until today. Yesterday afternoon was so gorgeous — sunny and warm — that we walked down to the pub and spent the evening gossiping with…
(sigh) Well, today’s the day. It’s time to bite the bullet and upgrade to XP. I’ve been putting this off for months, but I knew it would happen eventually. Ryoh-ohki…
Meanwhile, my own archives seem to have vanished and been replaced by those of some nice blogger who’s a guitarist. Very strange. I think I’ll discontinue them for the moment…
The soda bread came out nicely! That’s one great little fan oven. (It’s a Whirlpool.)
I may as well bake now, because the template work I’m doing at the moment is giving me problems…and my archives seem to be full of someone else’s pages. Weird…
Some funny cat business last night… Goodman started actively playing with Beemer. He had a little help. Beemer has a fake-fur mouse with a rattly thing inside it that she…
Nope, the problems are still there. (sigh) Oh well…on a rainy day like this, might as well stay in and bash my head against recalcitrant HTML as do anything else….…
Meanwhile, it would be really, really nice if it would stop raining. Unfortunately we seem to be caught in one of those persistent low-pressure areas that just keeps on dumping…
The Scooby-taping continues. I now have several 6-hour tapes full of material that I need to audit to see whether any more of my episodes have been caught. Meanwhile, I…
A note to the Scooby madness: in having a casual look at one of the Scooby episode guides, I find that I’ve written two episodes that I don’t even remember.…
The ScoobyThon on Cartoon Network continues, much to Peter’s helpless dismay. I left a videotape recording on super-slow last night and actually managed to catch my very first piece of…
This is plainly one of those weeks when my past is going to come back to haunt me with unusual insistence. Starting this morning, Cartoon Network Europe has programmed an…
“It makes adults of a certain age sigh with regret: How simpler times were then, how innocent the world. Well, nonsense. The times are always complex and corrupt to a…
Finally, a day which has consisted of nothing that looked like work at all. Beemer continues to settle in. Her relationship with the other cats is shifting: improving, in at…
Beemer is settling in gradually. She’s still a little slow about eating — she started tucking the food in pretty briskly on the evening of the day she had the…
Beemer was still throwing up yesterday morning…and throwing up roundworms. Ick. The poor kitty was most seriously infested: it turns out kittens can get roundworms from their mothers’ milk. The…
Beemer came out of the igloo and slept with Peter for a little while last night. This is good. Unfortunately, she also is pretty sick with roundworms — throwing up,…
So Peter says, “I went into the bathroom and she was still hiding behind the towel. I reached down to scratch her, and she came out and went into the…
So about an hour ago we brought home the beautiful and much-awaited Beemer. She was nervous about letting go of the kind ISPCA lady who’s been taking care of her…
So…back home once more. As we left LA, Peter gave up the silver rental Jag with some regret and considerable affection. He’d always wanted to drive one: now he’s had…
So the convention went brilliantly, which I rather expected: hard to see so many familiar faces in a favorite place without this being the case. Much fun, a turn or…
A couple of days in Minneapolis now, and getting somewhat grounded (and as usual on one of these trips, as soon as we get that way, it’ll be time to…
So here we are in Minneapolis, after spending a few days in New York, visiting various friends there, and rediscovering, big time, what air conditioning is for. I had also…