I did not gain any weight in the last two weeks. It’s probably strange to brag about nothing but, hey… Thanksgiving… no weight gain. Not only that but I made pies. We went to my brother-in-law’s house for Thanksgiving, which was nice. The weekend after, because we didn’t have any Thanksgiving leftovers of our own, [...]

Oops. You were expecting to see something new here today, weren’t you? I’ve been busy shopping. Unfortunately I haven’t found anything I want to buy and time is running out. So, for now, why not listen to some nice music and talk among yourselves. I’ll be around.

I’ve always liked British actors. They’re so… uh… dignified. These pigs do fly – Well… not really but for pigs, I would say diving is pretty close. Advanced Style and Idiosyncratic Fashionistas – Elder and eccentric fashion blogs, both via American Age Fashion Chand Baori – a very interesting structure The Worst Things for Sale [...]

Leeann writes about what it’s like to be our age. My main old-age hang-up – aside from the scary forgetting what I was thinking about five seconds ago that everyone gets – is feeling like things I’ve done and been into most of my life are now “old lady things” and that people will see [...]

There is a commercial (for a credit card, I think) in which the very perky checkout girl at a toy store tells the customer, “Have a super sparkly day.” The customer says, “Okay,” in a tone that strongly suggests that she does not appreciate the sentiment. You know what? I don’t think I would have [...]

Fashionably Geek is a blog devoted to clothes that celebrate geekdom. I like the AT-AT poodle skirt. The funny thing about it is, I can see how an, ordinary, non-geeky person might think the applique is just a really badly cut poodle. Thanks to Leeann, who linked to the Browncoat Converse sneakers.

Coffee With an Architect Women’s Magazines Then and Now – Interesting comparison. Women’s magazines bore me. Bring back Twinkies – Hah! Finally a cause we can all believe in. (Or not. I actually don’t like Twinkies.) Portraits of Flowers – Beautiful News oops – Seriously, why do we even need the mainstream media anymore? Belly [...]

Well, they’re only naked in the sense that they don’t have any clothes on. (I’ve used this excuse myself, in fact.) — here Lost in Space was the first science fiction TV show I ever got obsessed with as a kid and I especially remember being obsessed with the third season of the series. In [...]

This is my brother’s cat. He has had him for a few months but he always hides under the bed when I’m there. (the cat, not my brother) I saw the gorgeous little guy (the cat, not my brother) for the first time yesterday. I took this picture with my phone.

I’ve been busy, busy. Monday, I… that’s funny, I can’t remember what I did Monday. Oh, I remember now… nothing. So why does it feel like I’ve been busy all week? Tuesday I went to see my brother for his birthday. Oh yeah! That’s what I did Monday. I scanned a bunch of old photos [...]

It’s been a long time since I have regularly visited Twitter. After not going there for months I decided to try it again but that lasted only a few days. I did like Twitter but for some reason I can’t seem to get back into it. I signed up for Facebook because I had hoped [...]

I hate when I see something I want to comment on and then I can’t find it again. One of the sewing bloggers wrote about polka dots and asked something about personal style and fabric choices, and I did comment over there but I wanted to link to it. I looked at every sewing blog [...]

I have always been a big advocate of RTFM. However, there are entirely too many instances of TM not being worth an F — here There are times when I think we should just appreciate what’s there and not try to analyze it to death. — there (I don’t usually do two from one source [...]

I was going to do one of these every week but it hasn’t worked out that way. Anyway, today’s quote is from Excession by Iain M. Banks. I think a little explanation might be required for those not familiar with Banks’ Culture novels or especially for those not very familiar with science fiction in general. [...]

I don’t have anything particularly interesting of my own this week so I decided to explore other people’s photos and found this from the excellent Rural Decay Pool on Flickr So, old buildings – Picturesque when seen in photos or while out driving around; eyesore if you live next door to it. True? Or do [...]

Pointy collar tutorial – This is great! I needed this! Dinosaur Girl – a very nice sewing blog I just now discovered, thanks to Adventures in Dressmaking Material Lady – another recently discovered sewing blog Vicki Kate Makes – and another; I love these old-fashioned illustrations Thread matters – a discussion about various brands of [...]

He lived long and wrote music that most people don’t understand. Today I will listen to all of my Elliot Carter CDs. All two of them. I don’t have this one yet.

I always hesitate to post anything that looks like an advertisement or an endorsement but really I just want to share a great find. Ladies, if you wear dresses in the wintertime you need these cotton spandex tights. Cotton tights are rather hard to find, which, to me, is surprising and disappointing. Cotton is warmer [...]

I live in the reddest state in America. My vote in the presidential election won’t count. But I’m voting anyway. It’s my statement – a tiny, insignificant statement, it’s true, but still my statement. I am proud to be one of the 34.35%. (Interesting they have the colors backward in this graphic) Think about what [...]

Oh how I hate wet days. My preciouses were soaked! — here This summer, I went to Mars (it’s possible that it was actually Newfoundland’s Bonavista Peninsula and Fogo Island, I can’t remember) — there We keep getting calls from the oddest people. — here The mag asked four experts — curiously all men, given [...]

About half a month ago Ruth wrote about the preference for young thin people “even when we are old and not so thin!” She notes that sewing blogs written by women who are young and size 4-10 are more popular than those by older women who are size 14-18. (Okay, there’s my excuse. I’m not [...]

Atlas title pages – I love these, the fancy lettering and the illustrations. [sigh] Why don’t they do title pages like that anymore? Our modern era is so boring, artistically. Vivian Maier – Maier took hundreds of photographs of Chicago from 1950 to the 1990′s while making her living as a nanny. She did not [...]

No trick-or-treaters here, as usual. We don’t live in a trick-or-treat area; we live in more of a teenagers-driving-around-egging-cars-and-smashing-mailboxes area. Especially smashing mailboxes. (I’m not worried about that myself though. We have a stealth mailbox.) And our house is so far off the road we probably wouldn’t get any little ghouls and goblins anyway but [...]