The Piffle Lecture

Abandonment, whatever. So I haven’t been writing here. LiveJournal claims the years, whereas this journal claims the months. Keep up with, or discover me, here.
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The bad news: I burned some bacon. But bacon is a small price to pay for…not…death.
Jubilee is cutting her two top front teeth. This has translated into a less-than-lovely series of nights for me. This morning I was ready to cry from fatigue and back pain as she woke up after just […]

The whole motley crew!
There’s quite a few of us to eat those pounds and pounds of candy!

Our humble abode, complete with shelves in the closet, is a regular tornado site.  A very small tornado, but this wind was named Weekend Neglect.  My cleaning habits, always laborious and lethargic, are rarely squeezed into the small space of time we are home on Saturday and Sunday.  I am (self) banished from the house […]

Hector the Beta, after a life in our household spanning four whole months, passed on.  His death is attributed to a sad accident during a water change.  He was belly-up the next day.
So…I need a new fish.   I could get a female Beta and name her Briseis, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briseis) but female Betas are so ugly and […]

I’ve had a machine for almost four years now, and this morning I just did my first project on it. It was my 16th birthday present, but that didn’t inspire me, apparently. But where birthday didn’t do anything, Jubilee did. So I made her a pair of babylegs. You’ve got to […]