these days of leiderhosen

The Steven at Cafe Verite this weekend on the whirlwind trip through Seattle and Kirkland. If you have an iPhone, get thee the Camerabag app . (It's on sale for a buck and it's genius.) The same peoples ( Nevercenter ) also make a little app called the Yeswecamera which generates the Obama style campaign inspired photos. huge fun. Someone asked how many years we had been married (15? 16?). It's not so much a marriage as a multi-decade vaudeville show complete with jugglers. Heavens, he is funny and I am a sucker for funny.

My Dad . He gifts me with good produce. I fix his computer issues and find him out of print books. (The latest is Andy Capp comics, which, other than the omnipresent pint, is pretty much my Da's life.) We do not sing each others' praises but we are getting along. Maybe this is a late in life choice but this might be progress. Dunno. I should have stayed home today and unclogged the storm drains on the street.

Dear Mother of God, it's wet here with our first storm of the season. The heat in the office is finally on after a miserable yesterday with people swaddled up in whatever they could find and trying to type with gloves on. For all of those who are moving, Apartment therapy has good advice for those who are just entering a new space . I. Do. Not Need. New. Fiber. Damn, you etsy.com. And for those who need their Julia Fix today: Bon Appetit!

Actually it's been a very strange three or four days and I don't quite know where it all went off the rails and I am here in the dark typing, editing, typing and maybe at some point it will all make more sense than it does now. A friend from high school of mine has lost her mum, who had been friends with my own mum. We spent an hour at the end of the workday talking. We haven't talked in years. She is just as effervescent and clever as she ever was, but how one can get through such an event and the aftermath with such style and grace is impressive. Maybe from this blog you have gathered that I am not naturally nice, kind, gracious or even honest. It just has not amused me to be so. Ever. Where this crap material came from no one knows. Certainly not from Mum. If I don't have to try at something, if a talent or inclination occurs naturally I haven't valued it, something like the concept that people have no value for things that are given freely. Every reversal of ...

Violet of the Lime and Violet Knitting Podcast is going through a rough time and needs to flee Iowa and the Cheating Nasty SideShow (soon to be ex-)Husband. As he has emptied their bank account, some resources are being pulled together to get her enough fundage to get out of there. To start, a wollmeise raffle . Some other efforts to help can be found here .