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Category Archives: This and That

When the Frost is on the Artichoke…

Tonight we’re having our first Dungeness crab of the season, courtesy of a seafood store, and also courtesy of a traffic jam two nights ago that had us crawling so slowly down El Camino Real we were able to see the small sign on the corner that said FRESH CRAB STEAMED/LIVE. It’s typical of our […]

Wifi of Enchantment

It’s beautiful here in Albuquerque, with the pale white light of December afternoon sun just starting to cast shadows across the city. The airport is so quiet on this Saturday afternoon that in typical big-city style I assumed I had missed my flight, since only 45 minutes before take-off there were less than ten people […]

Santa’s Little Helper

So there I was baking Christmas cookies, when I turned around to see that Emma had crawled into a kitchen cabinet. You can tell from her girth that she wasn’t there to smooth the shelf paper. Bookmark to:

Thanksgiving

This is one of those years where we showed up somewhere and were fed, and that was fine. I brought some cut-up veggies and two spreads: a simple chicken-liver pate from my very, very old copy of the New York Times Cookbook–mid-1960s–and Green Goddess dip from my new Williams-Sonoma “horses’ ovaries” cookbook (to use an […]

Arrrr, Me Beauty!

I received a few amused comments for the blog title “Shut Yer Piehole.” So I had to look up that phrase in Google Books, which I know I am supposed to call Google Book Search but just can’t, because Google, to me, is a company of three or fewer syllables. But Google Book/Book-Search, whatever, is […]

No email to Blue Highways…

Just in case you’ve tried to email me, Fastmail has been down since Thursday afternoon. I’ve loved their service for over a year (reliable, good IMAP support, nice Web client), so I’m dismayed by the restoration schedule. Three and a half days to get my mail back? In any event, I just had one of […]

Brief Hellos to Friends, Readers, BiblioBloggers, Etc.

Post-Internet-Librarian, I worked for one frantic day and then went to the ALA fall muckety-muck meeting, so I didn’t get a chance to do the big ol’ summary of What Went Right, and What Went Right. (Though Friday’s news about Scooter made me itch to post my Schadenfreude right there during a meeting.) Since this […]

I Love to Go A-Wandering…

This month I am indeed a-wandering. Some days I’m a-wandering how I’m going to get everything done, but I manage. In six weeks I turned in four essays at school, rode herd over our massive (but massively successful) system migration for MPOW, began writing for ALA Tech Source, went to a couple of conferences, did […]

Happy Day, Cristoforo

I couldn’t remember why I was so tired today (though getting up at 6 a.m. to write was some part of it) until I remembered I was at a conference all last weekend, worked all week (very long days, as we deglitched MPOW, a predictable outcome of such a big change), got up at 5:30 […]

Thanks, ProQuest!

MPOW received this very nice basket today congratulating MPOW on the successful launch of our new site. (Emma pushed Dot away so she could get a better look.) When the delivery man came to the door, he looked at me in my bathrobe and said, “I thought I was delivering this to a business.” I […]