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Entertaining search logs of February 2008

So I started this post a while ago, intending to post it on a slow day when I didn’t have anything to talk about:

One sad thing about not posting very often for, like, two years: my search word reports, listing the search terms that folks were looking for when they got to my site, are [...]

February 18th, 2008 | Category: meta | Leave a comment

We are the challengers of the unknown

If I could write, this is what I would write about: A sunny morning with the mountain out and Seattle misty and shining across the water; Neko Case challenging the unknown in my ears; a gull swooping and riding the wind in front of the boat.

(song: “Challengers,” The New Pornographers [listen!])

February 17th, 2008 | Category: life, weather | Leave a comment

Things I might or might not do.

1. Go to the Washington caucus, which is at the exact same time as my tiny friend Ciaran‘s first birthday.
      1a. Finish making Ciaran’s Christmas present.
      1b. Decide who I would vote for.
2. Ride my bike in March with all my new bike-nerd co-workers. (ALL of them ride their bikes [...]

February 6th, 2008 | Category: list | Leave a comment

January 2008 books recap.

Books I read in January 2008!

Dies the Fire: A Novel of the Change, by S. M. Stirling
At the recommendation of John Glover, I believe. Apocalypse in Oregon! Pagans! Survivalism! Farming! Hooray! The writing kind of bugged me, but along with Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents (both by Octavia E. Butler and [...]

February 3rd, 2008 | Category: 2008 | One comment

I don’t know any Basque songs, so pretend this is just a bunch of Xs and Ks.

Home sick yesterday and today, boo. The dogs like to have someone around, though, and it’s nice to catch up on sleep, lack of which probably contributed to the cold in the first places. Thank dirt for honey and ginger and lemon in hot water. And thank the Basques for my new super-easy favorite sick [...]

February 1st, 2008 | Category: food, sick | Leave a comment