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  ‘m up, but I’m not attem.  I woke up this morning at the very definition of oh-dark-thirty. After lying in bed for a while, I gave it up and got up. Then I had to find my glasses. You would think, after wearing them for thirty years now, I’d have learned to never put… Read More Title Goes Here

Pony Memories

  The First Reader and I were talking about ponies. I don’t recall how it came up, but we were sitting on the porch sipping coffee and blathering about nothing and everything, as you do. Now, I grew up with horses. Mom loved the big brutes, and I think I was six when she got… Read More Pony Memories

Out for a Walk

  Spring has sprung in my neck of the woods, and I have been stealing time to go for a walk on the way home from work every day. Well, every day I can justify it – some days, it’s hurry home to take care of something time-sensitive. I can usually manage 30 minutes, which… Read More Out for a Walk

The Case of the Perambulating Hatrack Part 9

  When last we saw our intrepid orc turned consulting investigator, he was sitting in his ex-mother-in-law’s kitchen sipping tea and learning about the skeletons in her closet, er, garden. The hatrack, for a change, was docilely standing by. In today’s installment…  My attention was torn away from this riveting bit of information by a… Read More The Case of the Perambulating Hatrack Part 9

Violets in a Storm

  This morning as I was sitting here looking up a recipe for crystallized violets I was thinking about the way children grow.  I should elucidate. The Jr Mad Scientist is turning 18 in a few short weeks. For her sixth birthday, I believe, I decorated her birthday cake with violets from the garden. That… Read More Violets in a Storm

Eat This While You Read That: Misha Burnett and Louise Sorenson

  Buckle in, folks! This is going to be a long one! Also, these are less recipes, and more techniques which you can use to make many, many delicious variations on a theme.  When I reached out to Misha, who I know well, to ask him for a book and a dish for ETWYRT, I… Read More Eat This While You Read That: Misha Burnett and Louise Sorenson

Data Not Collected is Not Data

  In science, data is king. However, the problem with this becomes quickly evident to anyone clever enough to start asking questions like ‘what data? How was it collected? When? Where?’ and so on and so forth. Incomplete or incorrect data, or simply the lack of any data, means that the hypothesis cannot be supported,… Read More Data Not Collected is Not Data

Writer Stats

  Being the geek and scientist that I am, I started tracking my stats at the beginning of the year. The first couple of months, it was just… tracking. I wanted to see if I could incorporate the data collection itself into my daily routine. I am using a very simple google sheet for this.… Read More Writer Stats

The Case of the Perambulating Hatrack: Part 8

  When last we left him, the black orc turned detective has received difficult family news, but must first go to see his mother-in-law not as an obligation, but as an agent of the Magic and Alchemy Committee. He is bringing along the hatrack in hopes she will be able to discern something about it. … Read More The Case of the Perambulating Hatrack: Part 8

Life Goes On

I’m back in the trenches again. After a week off for sickness/quarantine, it feels good to be at work. I may be returning to normal, but my morning commute to work reminded me that not everyone is continuing their routines. Disruptions continue. Traffic was light, and flow of traffic speed was about 10 mph faster… Read More Life Goes On