First off, my email is down, so if you're talking to me i...

First off, my email is down, so if you're talking to me in email, I can't hear you.

We had a nice thunderstorm this morning, but it didn't last nearly as long as it needed to. (We're fifteen inches below our normal rainfall.) The contractor should be back today to put the bathroom back together (no toilet in the bathtub, yay!) and fix the ceiling where the roof leak was. He said he didn't think the chimney would fall off the house and if it did, it certainly wouldn't hit the neighbor's house. So I'm putting that in the plus category.

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Here's a list of organizations taking donations for Japan: Interaction.org: Members Support Japan Tsunami Response

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I thought this was a very neat building: Belly of the Beast Serpentine Residential Eco-Building


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Two new posts on the Night Bazaar on secondary world fantasy (any fantasy that takes place in a made-up world): my post here and Courtney Schafer's here. If you comment on either of these posts or any other Night Bazaar post this week with the name of a secondary world fantasy you enjoyed, you'll be entered in a drawing to win one of four free copies of The Cloud Roads.