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Lighten up 1 Feb 2013 | 11:44 am
Since September 2011, I have lost about 30 pounds, a little over a sixth of my starting weight. (The arithmetically inclined can now calculate my peak and current weights. Go ahead, I don’t care.) Occ...
Kings Canyon Reprise 15 Sep 2011 | 06:35 pm
Three years ago I tried to hike the Rae Lakes Loop in Kings Canyon National Park. We had a good time and took a bunch of pretty pictures, but I got altitude sickness and had to turn back after two day...
Eugene 7 Sep 2009 | 06:02 am
On Friday our friend Mike and his beloved Alli were married in Eugene, Oregon. Jeff was a groomsman. We drove up for the ceremony; it was a fairly mixed trip. Two of the groomsmen had legal trouble wi...
Dear diary 1 Sep 2009 | 05:18 pm
Today my husband trimmed my hair. He used a level.
The shoe problem 12 Mar 2009 | 08:18 pm
As I wrote previously, I've been moving towards wearing hand-knitted socks. For the most part this has been fabulous, but it did uncover a lack in my wardrobe: black shoes. It's not that I don't own a...
Fresh fettuccine 3 Mar 2009 | 06:26 pm
Several years ago Jeff's mother gave us a pasta maker. I think we used it once, though I don't actually remember doing so. (I do remember trying to roll pasta dough by hand, which didn't work terribly...
Return of the Flippy Gloves 2 Mar 2009 | 07:00 am
Four years ago, I knitted gloves for Jeff. These were not just any gloves; they were fingerless, with a mitten-top that could flip forward to cover the fingers. I even made the thumb flippy by means o...
Judith with the Head of Holofernes 1 Mar 2009 | 07:52 pm
One of my colleagues went to the San Francisco Legion of Honor a while ago and told me she saw a painting that looked like me. That's random, I thought, and I completely forgot about it until this wee...
Stitches West 2009 28 Feb 2009 | 05:37 pm
Today, I went to Stitches West 2009. For those who aren't in the know, Stitches is a sort of knitting convention with a bunch of classes but also a large marketplace of knitting vendors. I didn't sign...
Ohio/Kentucky 2008 24 Feb 2009 | 05:54 pm
Jeff's father takes a trip to Ohio every December, and this year Jeff and I went with him. We spent a couple of days in Cincinnati with Jeff's aunt, then drove down to rural Kentucky for a few days wi...
