Want
I want a pair of these.
(image from Wikimedia Commons)
A set of sai. There's a way to go before I can learn to use them. But I really want to get there.
Topic
Personal
A collection of 518 issues
Chilled
There's cold, there's what my mother called "brisk", and then there's entirely too cold to be allowed. Yesterday was the latter:
Taken with the camera on my phone while stopped at traffic lights. Yes, I'm on my way to work
Typhoid Mary
I'm trying not to be Typhoid Mary.
Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), also known as Typhoid Mary, was the first person in the United States to be identified as a healthy carrier of typhoid fever. Over the course of her career as a cook, she
Starting the year
I only made a couple of resolutions for 2009 and I believe both are do-able goals:
* Spin on my new wheel at least twice a week.
* Get my karate orange belt.
My first ever karate lesson was on November 17th, on December 11th I signed up for five months
Signing off for 2008
I hope you have a relaxing and fun holiday.
Merry Christmas
and
Happy New Year!
I'll be off work for a week, and I have plans. My Christmas present is a Majacraft Rose spinning wheel, which has been waiting in the basement since our trip to The Fold
Go play on the highway
How many times do you get the chance to go play on the highway? Actually ON the highway, walking down the centre lane snapping photos and dodging bikes and basset hounds?
A five mile stretch of Highway 40/Interstate 64 in St Louis has been closed all year. This was
Novelling Snapshot
Reached 40,000 words on Wednesday 19th and I'm only partway through chapter nine of twelve, looks like I'm writing a 60,000 word story. But it's moving along nicely and I hope to write "The End" by November 30th.
The story
The original Doctor Who
BBC News: Doctor Who (before the Tardis).
Newly released documents, which reveal the 1960s conception of Doctor Who, show how nervous the BBC was about producing a sci-fi show, writes Tom Geoghegan. The Doctor without his time-travelling police box is difficult to imagine, but its creators initially proposed
First Frost
Scraped ice off my car this morning, and there was a snow flurry over the weekend. It must be winter. This happens every year, and it's always a surprise. Got a new pair of leather gloves at the weekend, dug my roll-brim Rowan Coccoon hat out of
T minus five
Went to the St Louis NaNoWriMo kick-off party on Saturday. Hubby and I are so used to NaNo events taking place on Sunday, we woke up the next day convinced we had to go back to work, and had a second Sunday this weekend. Photos from the party are