The Grand Master (both of them!) at his best. Spider Robinson did a fantastic job fleshing out RAH's outline – Variable Star has the spirit and flavor of the best of Heinlein's work. I was a little worried at the first couple of chapters; they were good sci-fi, but the contemporary references were a bit jarring. But soon enough I was totally immersed in a true Heinlein universe. The book was quite deftly inserted into Heinlein's Future History timeline, with a chilling reference to current events bringing about the election of Nehemiah Scudder. If you're a hardcore Heinlein fan, it's…

In a little over four months, I'm going to be 40. The big Four-Oh. Age is just a number, but I've been noticing… changes that I'm not too thrilled with. One, of course, is the grey hair. Hoo boy I've got more grey than I need. Granted, it did start turning grey in my early 20's – but now it's probably at least 30-40% grey. I've been playing with color for so long, I'm not exactly sure, but the hair at my temples and roots is looking awfully grey. ;) The other change I'm not so thrilled about… … are…

I’ve ordered stuff from play-asia (imported!) with no problem. Hell, I’ve had no problem buying stuff on ebay. But these guys?? Forget it. Timeline: June 30: Pre-ordered Talking Sumomo figure from Toys N’ Joys. It was supposed to be available August 30th. July 21: Charge for Toys N’ Joys showed up on credit card statement. August 22: Emailed Toys N’ Joys to find out shipping date August 23: Toys N’ Joys says “I will check on this and email you.” August 30: No response from Toys N’ Joys; sent a more emphatic email. August 31: Toys N’ Joys says “Sold…

Nothing to see here, really. Nothing interesting anyway. Well, it’s interesting to me of course. Sorta. Look! A kitten!

Just seeing if this will post to LiveJournal.  I'm not sure it'll post to WordPress, so chances are I won't use it.  But, as Gir always says… “What's that do?!?  What's that do?!?”

I'm trying a new crockpot recipe today – Chicken Chow Mein. It's out of one of our newer crockpot cook books; last week I tried the beef stroganoff recipe and it was loads better than the recipe I used to use. So, I figured it'd be worth it to try different recipes, especially since I only tend to make 2 or 3 things with the crockpot. So. Things I need to get done today…         drop husband off at work        mail package to in-laws        get a few things at the grocery store for dinner        get crockpot started        get Pandora's food from vet        empty dishwasher        load/run dishwasher        finish cleaning…

Using Blazer on the T|X to make an LJ post. Writing in Graffiti, wheee!

Things are always more complicated than they should be. Shiny has been acquired. I went with the Palm TX, because I really couldn&apos;t justify the need for the LifeDrive. Really, this TX is fabulous, and all I really need or want. It is now also syncing w/ iCal, AddressBook, and SOHO Notes. Due to my own stupidity, it took me a lot longer than it should have. Tomorrow, I&apos;m going to try to convince it to install a couple legacy apps that I (heart) dearly, plus <insert ominous music here> SmartList To Go. We&apos;ll see how it goes. Tomorrow, I…

Thanks to &apos;s reader we know that Firefox extension AdBlock is causing the Firefox kablooie livejournal pages. The CSS LJ serves up for ALL users is getting caught by adblock. Most likely because of “ad_base.css” in the code. Anyhoo, if you&apos;re using adblock (and WHY aren&apos;t you?!?) just whitelist this: http://stat.livejournal.com/??lj_base.css,xc/basic.css,xc/menu-normal.css,xc/normal-fonts.css,ad_base.css,xc/extended.css?v=1154390211 Problem solved… until they jack w/ the css again. EDIT!!!! Actually, just whitelist http://stat.livejournal.com/ – that will work much better.

Read this link. It&apos;s all I would want to say about 9/11 if, you know, I wrote good and all. I&apos;ll be skipping the movies and as much of the hype as possible.