Caracol

This will revolutionalize the way I garden (maybe)

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:38:00 -0500

I’m going to xeriscape my front yard! I’m thoroughly excited about it & hopefully this enthusiasm will last awhile, because it’s probably not something I can do anytime soon (maybe next year?). Maybe I can start applying some of the xeriscaping principals to my existing garden:

Planning and design (this has not carried over into my yard beyond the garden plots)
Practical lawn areas (this will require some investigation, but with a small yard, maybe the whole thing is practical)
Efficient irrigation (does the rain barrel count?)
Soil improvement (imminent with the compost decomposing as we speak)
Use of mulches (well, the pine tree mulch we got for free last January seems to be working okay in the front yard, I guess)
Low water demand plants (hmm…)
Good maintenance (more weeding! especially in the front yard)

Hooray for xeriscaping!

Interrobang!?

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:32:23 -0500

Interrobang!?:

I just learned that the punctuation series used to express amazed disbelief has a name. Did you know this!?

One Got Fat: Bicycle Safety

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:41:44 -0500

One Got Fat: Bicycle Safety:

Entirely effed-up bicycle safety film narrated by Edward Everett Horton (of “Fractured Fairy Tales” narration fame).

WTF? ROTD? OMG!

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:56:24 -0500

My Yelp Review of Timo got Review of the Day on Saturday! How did that happen? Wow! I guess I’d like to thank the Academy and my mom.

Linksys Tech Help Man is Toast

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:28:51 -0500

Now I have a mission. My mission is to make Linksys dude #32964’s life miserable. How is it that you can a perfectly reasonable tech help session with someone one week, then call back a week or so later and not not get good help but not get help at all. This week, Linksys decided that they can’t even talk to me because my warranty has expired. And they can’t let me talk to a supervisor and they can’t give me a phone number to call to talk to customer service. Oh, that’s nice. Real nice.

In the meantime, I figured it all out, because I’m a rockstar and all, but honestly, Linksys will rue the day. No, really. Rue it.

Eight Random Things

Tue, 29 May 2007 16:09:14 -0500

Caracol is one of my favorite words. It’s Spanish for snail. Say it. It’s great.
We installed a water barrel this spring and it’s the best thing that every happened to water. It seems more precious now and I freak out if it overflows or leaks.
I have lived with the following ferrets: Cooter, Putney, Satchel and Button.
My husband and I eloped to Burlington, Vermont in January. We picked Burlington in large part because of the Magic Hat Brewery.
I drive a 3-door Yaris, possibly the cutest car currently available in the US (soon to be usurped by the Smart, and rightfully so)
Even though I’m originally from a suburb of Boston, I do not have an accent and I never did. I used to absolutely hate the Boston accent, but now that I’m in the midwest I’m kinda nostalgic for it and “lapse” if I’m drinking with my mom or my sister. I do regularly use “wicked” as intensifier, though.
I really really love the movie The Untouchables.
Now that I’m not taking online classes any more I hardly ever download new music.

It's mostly posts about how lousy the red line is, though

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:27:11 -0500

It's mostly posts about how lousy the red line is, though:

Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood is on Outside.in’s list of America’s Top 10 Bloggiest Neighborhoods. Take that all you non-bloggy cities.

"Well, you know what they say: It’s not the arrow, it’s the Indian."

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:30:00 -0500

“Well, you know what they say: It’s not the arrow, it’s the Indian.”

- Well, that’s what Chris Singleton says….

Recipe: Risotto al Barolo - New York Times

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:38:42 -0500

Recipe: Risotto al Barolo - New York Times:

From a NYT article on wine and cooking. The gist? It hardly matters if you cook with $3 Rene Barbier or the bottle that’s been open for a week in your fridge.

Max Headroom - AOL Video

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:56:40 -0500

Max Headroom - AOL Video:

Oh now I’ll never get anything done…

Free, too? Holy crap.

Um… where’s Jenn? Yeah, her, uh, head just exploded from blipverts… She would have wanted to go this way.

Nosewine.com - wine tasting notes

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:54:29 -0500

Nosewine.com - wine tasting notes:

Oooh! Another way to pretend that my opinions matter! I love this stuff.

No, I'm a blogger!

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:14:34 -0500

Josh: Is that your blog?
Me: Yeah.
Josh: Is that the name? (when it was Bitchin' Librarian)
Me: Yeah.
Josh: Really?
Me: Yeah.
Josh: Really?
Me: Yes.
Josh: You're a dork.

Way Lay

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:17:56 -0500

Way Lay:

First in what will prove to be a long list of links to library-related webcomix.

Free Dunkin Donuts Iced Coffee Today - Consumerist

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:40:36 -0500

Free Dunkin Donuts Iced Coffee Today - Consumerist:

Why did I spend money at Starbucks today? Oh. Because it was a cold and rainy morning in Highland Park and hot coffee was called for. Why can’t free Iced Coffee Day be tomorrow when it’s supposed to be 60 and sunny? Huh?

Photo

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:12:54 -0500

Dear blog

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:03:55 -0500

So I’ve done it. I’ve broken down and created a blog. Does it help that it’s on tumblr? Nobody’s on tumbler, so that’s cool, right? Yeah, whatever, blogger.

I’m blogging because The Husband is sick of listening to me talk about librarianship. But my blog will never get tired of listening to me talk about librarianship. I can go on and on about patrons, and the intranet, and the funny quirks of my fellow librarians, and RSS feeds, and this great new blog I found while I was reading someone else’s blog about blogs blogs blogs blogs blogs.

Oh blog. We have so much catching up to do.