Reviews, Recipes, and Random Slices of Life

* Added to OpenOffice spellchecker: "golems" about 22 hours ago from Ping.fm
* Capers: not as good in scrambled eggs as you might think. about 20 hours ago from Ping.fm
* First 2 chapters of Vicesteed are up, if you're interested in reading them: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/vicesteed.html
* Suspect hunting up definition of "catwaxing" may in fact have been...catwaxing.
* Somebody recently said, "Steampunk is the new pink." They're right. But I can't remember who said it, and that's driving me batty! about 14 hours ago from web
* Whoa. My MPR member card will get me buy one, get one free pizza at Pizza Luce? about 13 hours ago from Ping.fm
* Monday's National Milk Chocolate Day. about 13 hours ago from Ping.fm

• 08:53 T.F.A, they're handing out free bunches of honey bunches of oats on the corner of Nicolade(?) and Aid's again. tinyurl.com/3ndolw #
• 14:22 Have escaped work drama. And there *was* work drama to escape. #
• 14:26 These "order yourself a surprise mystery gift!" websites destroy my willpower. www.somethingstore.com/ #
• 14:27 Free Obama '08 bumper stickers: pol.moveon.org/obamastickers/ #
• 15:08 Wrangling 400+ photos = kinda time-consuming. Even just to load a few of them. #
• 16:32 Sensor noise, how I hate thee, let me count the minutes.... #

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• 07:50 You never know how dependent you are on a scroll wheel until you get a mouse without one. #
• 08:14 Final reminder, potluck tomorrow! Details: Potluck tomorrow! Details here: cloudscudding.livejournal.com/610065.html #
• 08:21 Slate has a special series of articles re procrastination. Bwa-ha-ha-ha! www.slate.com/id/2190909/ #
• 13:08 Is Ethel the only Twin Cities person I know with a dog? Because I have free, unused dog toys to give away. #
• 14:19 Alternating 1/2 hr. bouts of writing tasks and cleaning today. #
• 18:51 I planted my herb packs from the CSA. Basil, oregano, and thyme. I am disproportionally pleased. #
• 18:51 Burdock recipe was a failure, but am amused that I had both mirin and sake on hand to cook with. #

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From Fictionwise:
"The Nebula Awards are among the most prestigious literary awards available, and are presented annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). The 2007 winners will be announced during the Nebula Awards Weekend, April 25-27 in Austin, TX. This year we kick off our promotion with The Story of Love by long-time Fictionwise author Vera Nazarian. Fictionwise will have new FREE nominated stories every week until the end of April."

This is a great way to read a bunch of very good science fiction and fantasy short stories. They do this every year. Very cool.

I'm about to purchase a "block" of ebooks from Baen's Webscriptions service. When I buy, I have the option to give the same block to somebody else for free. So, is anybody interested in having the following ebooks?

East of the Sun, West of the Moon by John Ringo
1634: The Ram Rebellion by Eric Flint and Virginia DeMarce
Moonsinger by Andre Norton
Bolo! by David Weber and Keith Laumer
Warp Speed by Travis S. Taylor
Prince of Sunset by Steve White


Edited to add: Claimed by molly_grrl.