I have occasionally remarked that I have the verbal memory of a mayfly. An articulate, but easily-distracted mayfly, at that. An incident from last May, appropriately enough, will serve to illustrate this: Somebody, let's say "A" because names aren't important here, was crashing in our room for a few hours. She woke up briefly, listened to a phone message from, let's say "B", gave me a...

...to gfish !!! Have a great one!!

As I was driving to work this morning Colleen called to say that the top floor of our neighbors' house was on fire. She'd spotted it just as she was leaving to go shopping, and called 911. Not exactly what one wants to hear while stuck in a traffic jam half an hour from home. Since there didn't seem to be much I could do at home, I decided to stay at work; I am now home because there were...

... to penngwyn !!! Hope it's a great one!!

Back an hour ago from a good practice session at Joyce's; things are coming along. Came up with a nice arrangement for the last verse of "Millennium's Dawn", and decided that, no, I really have to stick to one melody for the men's and women's ending choruses to "Quiet Victories". Good: it's simpler that way. Spent most of the morning puttering around and ripping CDs. It's comparatively mindless...

... gustavbloggers.com , live from the Zipa datacenter in New Orleans. Via interdictor , who was there blogging Katrina.

OK, I realize that you are almost certainly not sitting around wondering why on Earth you would want to spend your time talking to a shy, elderly computer geek with delusions of wisdom. And you probably aren't wondering exactly what a reference to Cordwainer Smith is doing in my user profile, either. But just in case you did want to know, here's a little background information that might...

At the museum yesterday we spotted a man on a nice little folding scooter: almost certainly this one. Either folds up or comes apart; the combination of small wheels, plastic seat, and small battery means that it's probably limited to light-duty, mainly indoor use, but it looks especially convenient for travel. A bit pricy, though. From my Mom, a link to pomegranate.com , an art publishing...

This is going to be a totally disjointed set of notes. It's been a long and tiring day. Congrats to the Pegasus Nominees ! I'm not one of them this year, which is not really surprising considering who is . It's a little disappointing that "Ship of Stone" didn't make it onto the ballot, but there's time... Welcome to our newest filk songwriter, super_star_girl , AKA the Younger...

Me: I am, in fact, working on a livejournal post about my bad memory. Y.D. Why are you working on a post about your memory? Me: I forget.