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This isn’t exactly new to any of us (certainly not to me), but getting old sucks. Went to say hi to baby’s great grandpa, who was discharged yesterday, and the tummy troubles continue.

Anyhoo, over ‘n out.

Categories: Wildcard

Funniest thing. Turns out, travelling alone with an 8-month-old is kinda tiring. Also taking 8-month-old to visit her great grandpa in hospital for weirdo stomach problems.

Anyway. Over ‘n out.

Categories: Wildcard

This morning RC2 shared my Tiger Woods story on her Google Reader (which gets pushed to her sidebar) and, seeing it pop up in my newsfeed, I thought I’d click through and check I spelt everything correctly. Then I got redirected to a scary referral spam page. So I called Peter in to look at [...]

Categories: Wildcard

This is our spreadsheet:

It is slightly incomplete (Peter just added the fuel tank field and as you can see the warranty information is a little tricky to find) but last night he announced that he cannot for the life of him think of a car he missed. Yellow are so far the ones that are [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

Open thread!

Categories: Wildcard

I read this late Thursday night, Twittered about it, then woke Friday to find that RC2 had beaten me to it. And quoted pretty much the exact passage I was going to (but, predictably, I’d planned on quoting a bunch more). Her thoughts on the topic are here.

It’s a lovely essay and I recommend the [...]

Categories: Business & Media

That’ll be “Phrases Spoken By My Generation After Hell’s Frozen Over,” Alec. Next category for the Daily Double: “Why do the homeless always have to ruin our cities?”

Bookworm Room – San Francisco as it once was

Union Square is no longer a grass covered and palm treed oasis in the middle of the City. [...]

Categories: History

I asked Peter to add one small Tumblr box to my sidebar.

Which meant he had to completely rebuild my blog theme. He’s spent the morning and a bit of the afternoon doing that and now he’s about to punt it over to the live site. If I disappear for the next week or so, assume [...]

Categories: Wildcard

Just for something to post today, I figured I’d go with this little pock-mark in Oregon, Crater Lake.

Categories: Science and Nature

It’s at Neiman Marcus.

Categories: Uncategorized

Just look at that blue sky. 70°. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.

Categories: Science and Nature

This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen on YouTube.

(Man, they couldn’t have made it blow up inwards a little bit and not try to wipe out 76?)

Categories: Entertainment

Yesterday was the fifth anniversary of this blog. Usually, uncannily, I remember after not thinking about it for weeks, like a bolt from the heavens, “What’s the date today?!” This year I kept remembering and, thinking I was totally on top of it, totally forgot yesterday. I was really busy, that’s why.

Anyway, It hasn’t been [...]

Categories: Wildcard

What is it about cab drivers? Some cities, they’ve been everywhere, and some, they act like they’re doing you a favour for telling them where to go.

Anyway, regular programming to resume tomorrow.

Categories: People and Current Events

These people are everywhere in Seattle. Even up here in mostly-residential Queen Anne they lurk at the intersection where the Starbucks is across from the Peets is across from the Tea Cup. Even me, with a baby slung to me they try to stop. It’s been years of having them downtown. Even if you do [...]

Categories: People and Current Events