No maps for these territories

At the end of this year (at the end of all things) I am drinking coffee (from experience, I know that I’ll crave these particular Americanos from this particular coffee shop for as long as I’m not in Seattle) and daydreaming (I am fully awake, but don’t feel it) about the places I have been, [...]

My dreams have been full of pirates lately. Space pirates — we’ve been watching Firefly. J. woke me up this morning with coffee, as he often does when I’m here and sleeping in: “yaarr” he said. “Coffee pirates!” There’s nothing better than coffee pirates. I got j. pirate tape for xmas. Also pirate cocktail napkins. [...]

I don’t think I would ever get tired of vacation. I have been on long extended vacations before; some people get tired of such enforced idleness, a lack of structure. As do I, of course; I start to miss work and pressure; I crave a little stress in order to function properly. But the thing [...]

sometimes I think that we should write our holiday letters looking forward to the next year, instead of recounting what has happened in the year past. What do you want from the new year? What do you want to make happen, what do you want to be able to say? wishing you all a lovely, [...]

what to do with that library rat? This made me laugh more than it probably should have. But considering my name and all… good clean fun. Probably no more posting until Seattle. And probably not very much then. I intend to take the ol’ ball and chain computer so I can work on a research [...]

This may be self-defeating, since I’ve already encouraged holiday giving to the ‘pedia… but Creative Commons is also holding a fund drive. There’s a message floating around on the intarweb (https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/2647.html) that CC may lose its IRS standing without more public donations. At any rate, it’s a good cause; they’ve done so much work to [...]

The OED is looking for a little help —- Things in my life right this moment in no particular order: hot cocoa heater kexp/kdvs radio cage match (in different rooms) headache possible hot bath christmas presents wiki*(mania, pedia, research) madness bills, need to be paid no phone calls? an enormous to-do list holiday cards to [...]