Visual depictions of the aftershocks

Albuquerque, New Mexico If I gain nothing else from this trip, at least I’ve finally learnt how to spell Albuquerque 🙂 A very long and adventure-packed day. We’ve only just got into Albuquerque (ok, now I’m just showing off ;-)) at the very late hour of what we thought was quarter to 10, but we…

The battery died in my watch the other day, meaning that I discovered once again that I have absolutely no time sense. MrPloppy can always tell you roughly what time it is, even if he hasn’t looked at a clock for hours, but for me it could be any time at all. Which is an…

I’ve had a very productive day today. I spent most of the morning and a large chunk of the afternoon making a present for TheLetterB, whose sproglet is due any day now (which is why this post is friends-only – I’ll make it public once the sproglet has made his/her appearance and received the present)….

That’s the trouble with being back at work, not as much time to do fun stuff like writing diary entries. However, I *am* getting quite a bit of reading done – no, not at work (though it’s tempting sometimes!), but in my lunch break (I find a nice quiet spot under a tree somewhere to…

I was going to post a short photo-essay of a release I just did, but my first attempt to log in to the HamiPiks site was unsuccessful (basically, it won’t let me past the terms and conditions page), and of course, Steve posted a message the other day saying that support requests won’t be answered…

As promised, lytteltonwitch arrived this morning armed with an overlocker and a spare sewing machine (her other overlocker wasn’t working properly, but as it turned out, the extra sewing machine was of more use anyway, because mine continued to behave erratically, so I gave up using it). We sent MrPloppy up to the bakery to…