(Note, I am alone Christmas Eve, but Sandy joins me tomorrow–so excuse the holiday post!) Though I hate the slog of air travel per se, I do love flight, and my favorite moment is when the plane lifts above cloud level, with the sky above us and the cloud stretched out underneath in an infinite […]
I have a numinous, well-crafted post that will have to wait as this month’s temp apartment hasn’t had wifi in three days. Then again it doesn’t have heat to speak of. I can blog a little on the iPhone but I have yet to find the toasty-toes app. (The wordpress iPhone app doesn’t make it […]
This won’t be long as it’s another iPhone post. I am delighted to be home again–I have missed California so much that at times it hurt. I know it’s expensive and crowded. That’s because you’re paying the luxury tax of waking up every day in California. Meanwhile for the first three weeks of my job […]
For a couple more weeks I’m without a personal laptop or desk computer, having returned the former to MFPOW and having left the other 3,000 miles away in boxes carefully labeled OPEN FIRST. I am also without TV. Sandy and the cats will join me in a couple of months. So my evenings are spent […]
So I arrived in the Bay Area in time for the closure of the Bay Bridge, and might I add, if they who know these things believe the bridge should be closed, then by golly, please do close it. Right before I arrived in the Bay Area I had a chance to swing through Monterey […]
So we made it to Des Moines by way of Springfield and Champaign, where we visited the Lincoln Museum and UIUC GSLIS–both were in fine form. A beautiful building makes me feel smart and important. I had a great education at GSLIS, but the old building was a bit weary and cramped.  Note to current GSLIS […]
So, new world, new tech. Looking for ideas. A couple months back, my Garmin GPS began alerting me that my maps had expired and that I needed to renew them. The renewal price? $69 for one-time, or $119 for a “lifetime” subscription. What is “lifetime,” according to Garmin? They mean the lifetime of the device. […]
As mentioned in earlier posts, I was the opening reader at the September 12 Babylon Salon, an occasional reading event held at Cantina, a lovely bar in downtown San Francisco. The event organizers recorded the readings, and Timothy Crandle, USF crony and reading-organizer extraordinaire, sent me a sound file. So here is me reading the […]
Have Pumpkin, Will Travel Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian So we had a lovely time in the Bay Area in September. The pumpkin and bicycles are not ours — I just spied this outside a brewery in Santa Cruz, and it spelled autumn in NorCal for me. (We didn’t go to that brewery, but we had […]
Most of my posts about the latest political goings-on have simply happened in my head, while I worked on some personal writing, taught myself more DocBook XML (really, every librarian should learn some XML schema; it’s quite pleasant, like tatting or needlepoint), etc. But the conversation about health care has so far ignored a highly […]