Giannine received a gift certificate for her birthday to the local virtual reality video game center. When she got there, there were protesters outside – something about exposing minors to too much violence. She ran through the crowd anyway, and picked the game Heir Apparent. And just when the game was starting to get somewhere, […]
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Now, I’ve decided to mostly opt of out reading challenges this year, but I still do have a project in mind. The above is what I’ve labelled as the Tote of Shame in my LibraryThing catalog, because it used to be a tote, but I outgrew that early last year. This is a pretty deep
For New Year’s, we headed over to Vermont, to visit the BF’s family. They’re smack in the middle of the region that was badly effected by Hurricane Irene. Their town (Bennington), was only minorly effected – mostly by the temporary loss of the water supply coming out of the mountains, but the route we take
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I’ve been away from Pern for a while – it was one of my favorite series when I was a teenager, and I’d left off with The Dolphins of Pern – where Thread was seemingly eradicated, and Pern was learning to live with that reality. It seemed a natural enough stopping point, but there were
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Much like the cookbook I just read, I don’t normally read knitting books all the way through. This is also one of the few authors that I will automatically get her next book, even if I haven’t previewed it first. The first part of this book breaks down exactly why socks are different than many
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I had some quality knitting time during our long weekend in Vermont, and I managed to get through charts 1 and 2 in my Galadriel’s Mirror shawl. I’m really enjoying this pattern. I think I’d class it as intermediate level. It’s actually pretty repetitious, so I have a certain amount of it memorized, but there’s
I don’t usually make a habit of reading cookbooks. I also don’t normally run out and buy (or in this case request for Christmas) cookbooks sight unseen, even if I do have other books by that author. I will make an exception for Melissa Clark’s books. I really enjoyed In the Kitchen with a Good
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In an alternate London sometime in the 19th century (I think), Kim lives on the streets. When an obviously well to do man offers her five pounds to break into a traveling magician’s wagon and just look around, she can’t say no to such easy money. But, when she’s caught in the act because of
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Pattern: Fallberry by Anne Hanson, from the Winter 2011 KnittyYarn: Collinette Jitterbug in the Copper Beech colorwayNeedles: Size 3 DPNs I love mitts. They’re so incredibly fast! This is one of the two pair I’m making for Christmas gifts for the women of BF’s family. I’m thinking these will probably go to his mother. The
I have today off, and since baking a pie does not a full day make, I’ve done a bit of stock-taking of my sewing projects. (The pie crust should be cooled by now, so should shortly be back in pie land.) The first thing of note is my new baby. It was my ten-year anniversary
