So, I wanted to do a post that was going to be, sorta kinda, about one of my favorite fairy tales. But then I realized there were a lot of different layers to that, not even necessarily relating to said fairy tale at all, and that what I really need to post about was Video Stores! I spent a non-insubstantial fraction of my formative years in video stores. From the time when I was little and slammed my sister’s hand…
See Previous | See Next Sorry for the late posting! My only excuse is that I was traveling this weekend and that apparently turned my brain to mush. Things are mostly warming up again around here, most of the snow melted again or persisting in huddled clumps here and there. My garden isn’t fooled into thinking its spring quite yet, but the (tough and kind of sharp!) hellebores leaves are evergreen. The dianthus really aren’t, but so far they’ve gotten…
Okay, I don’t know quite how to parse this. I was feeling really out-of-sorts. And then sitting in on the (otherwise unremarkable) weekly status meeting made me feel better?
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 5 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Because of course, just because a pig could fly, didn’t mean it would fly, …or keep doing so. And what happens when a greedy pig that’s eaten flying fruit flies up…
This is how I know it’s almost February.
See Previous | See Next Still have the snow this week, but things are starting to warm up and get melty again – the sort of weather that usually feels like messy ugh, except this means the moisture is being allowed to seep down into the garden, and so from my perspective is sort of a happy thing. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is really convincing that some amount of snow is definitely the norm for this time…
Well. Like all the ‘best’, most truly boggling and awful of code bugs, this one was extremely simple and stupid and makes me feel like now I ought to get my eyes examined…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 4 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Still, Mina grinned wickedly. “Not afraid enough,” she sang. “You need to bring the las– ” Just then, a bone-shivering, ear-shriveling shriek slashed the morning air. Though perhaps the stone walls…
See Previous | See Next Alright. The cold and the snow are here! Not a huge lot of snow, but very much cold enough to get that snow to stick around a while. The winter garden always looks so much prettier draped in white. Cozy and cold. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is almost all snow (except for the last two this winter), with the whole range of aspects, from frosting, to blizzard disaster, to soggy, to sunny….
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 3 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… At least now there wouldn’t be any rose blossoms for gran-Tom to send her after for at least a week, maybe two. As Mina took in the wide destruction of her…