My first blog, titled Bright Green Gaijin Pants, was a chronicle of my time as an exchange student in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan. I’ve decided to repost its contents on this blog. For a full list of all these posts, check out the Bright Green Gaijin Pants category. The first blog post of any real worth…
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Bright Green Gaijin Pants, Post 3-1
My first blog, titled Bright Green Gaijin Pants, was a chronicle of my time as an exchange student in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan. I’ve decided to repost its contents on this blog. For a full list of all these posts, check out the Bright Green Gaijin Pants category. The first blog post of any real worth…
Bright Green Gaijin Pants, Posts 1 & 2
My first blog, titled Bright Green Gaijin Pants, was a chronicle of my time as an exchange student in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan. I’ve decided to repost its contents on this blog. For a full list of all these posts, check out the Bright Green Gaijin Pants category. The first two posts are small and nothing…
Anchorage Log Cabin Quilters 2009 Quilt Show
The local quilters guild, the Anchorage Log Cabin Quilters, runs a quilt show every September. This years started yesterday and ends today, running from 10 AM to 4 PM with their silent small quilt auction ending at two and a raffle quilt being given away at 3:30. And if you like quilts, you should go.
Making the Best Use of Recount, Part 3: Damage Done Details
This is the third in a series of posts about Recount, an add-on for World of Warcraft. It gathers and reports on data taken during combat. Individual Player Data – Mouse Over In the last installment, I introduced the basics of the Recount window you see by default. If you hover your mouse cursor over…
First Visit to Quilt Tree
I finally got off my duff and walked over to Quilt Tree this evening. Up ’til today I had gone exclusively to Seams Like Home due to its extremely close proximity to my place of work. (Well, except for one after-hours fail attempt to hit the quilt shop in Eagle River with my sister.) I…
A Quarter of a Century
As of a couple of days go, I am 25. I have witnessed a quarter of a century. The first major event I was really cognizant of was the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was living in upstate New York at the time. My father was still in the army, and I was under…
Making the Best Use of Recount, Part 2: Display Window Basics
This is the second in a series of posts about Recount, an add-on for World of Warcraft. It gathers and reports on data taken during combat. Display Window Basics The main window is the only one you’ll ever see if you don’t play around with the addon much. It gives you the most basic summaries…
Book Review: Quilting Makes the Quilt by Lee Cleland
I found this book at the Loussac Library, and I am so glad I grabbed it. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in quilting.
Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight, Me Hating to Love it, and People Who Love to Hate It
About 95% of fan fiction is pure crap — the authors didn’t even care enough about their own work to put it through a spell check or ask someone to read and critique it or anything along those lines. Many of these are Mary Sue stories. Most of them involve sex. They have bad plots…