She's a California girl

She relocated to Maryland with her husband and daughter then the blizzard of 2010 hit the Washington DC area with 40 inches of snow: all she has in her closet for footwear are loafers, sandals, and flipflops.

Gift of Richard Brautigan

Remembering Richard Brautigan and the Confederate General from Big Sur, Revenge of the Lawn, Trout Fishing in America, and The Towel.

The giving, and receiving, of a Richard Brautigan gift can be found at the link below.

Brautigan Gift

Laudizen

Morning Joe

Just made coffee, Peet's Major Dickason's using a little 2-cup cone drip filter held in a small cheap plastic holder, run into a tall thin travel cup until full. This makes as good a cup of coffee as any method I know: easy, fast, no mess, always satisfying.

Olympics

I, for one, would like to see ice skating and all the other events that decide victory based only on a judge's score removed from the Olympics. Let them have their own championship (IE fiascoes).

Floppy Disk

I recently came across a box containing several unused 3.5 inch floppy disks, the old 1.44MB standard that began to disappear in the 90s. There was a time when I would not own a PC unless it had a 3.5 inch floppy drive and I recalled how much better they were than the old 8 and 5.25 inch disks.

I left them in the box at my workbench. I'll come back in 20 years and sell them on EBay.

from Sylvia Plath

"I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will." –Sylvia Plath, poet, writer (1932-1963)

Machines of Loving Grace

"All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace"

title from Richard Brautigan