Tuesday brings the packing

1. First, happy birthday to my brother! Hope the day is a good one.
2. Tomorrow, after Cavorter gets out of work, we’re driving to Chicago for a familial visit. We will bring birthday and Christmas presents for my various nieces. Buying adorable presents for infants reminds me of the more [...]

Friday links and miscellany

1. WordPress.com has stopped working in Google Chrome. After contacting WordPress about this, they said it’s a known problem. I am a bit torked off about this, because of the way I Use The Interwebs. Firstly, I am torked off because it had worked fine until they “improved” something. Grr. [...]

ATC FAQ, part 1

It came to my attention yesterday that I haven’t explained much about my actual job here. I’m an air traffic controller, and people frequently have some questions about that. So here’s the intro FAQ for what I do –
Is it really stressful? Mostly, no. Training to be a controller is [...]

Shivering Sands

Yep, I got my copy of the new Warren Ellis book of essays, Shivering Sands.
Order it here, now!
This is stuff that a long-standing Ellis fan, like me, has already seen. But having it all in one place is priceless. Here, in my hands, I am holding some of Mr. Ellis’s great rants on [...]

Resistance is futile.

There’s a meme running around on LiveJournal, where people ask one questions and one answers them. So these are the questions posed to me –
1. What is the best thing for you about being a parent? The worst?
The best? That’s easy. There are these *awesome* people living with me. They are [...]

beating like a hammer

1. I think my current favorite song is “Help I’m Alive” by the band Metric. (Title of this post is from that song.) Here’s the song on Blip.fm, I think. (If the links at Blip work the way I think they do, that is.)
2. The soundtrack for writing this next project [...]

Peabody Testing, 2009

Today was a homeschooling milestone — the first time the kids took a standardized test. It was fascinating for me and J. Just fascinating.
We’d hired a tester to administer the Peabody Individual Achievement Test. This test is given by a tester, who asks the kids questions. There’s a reading component, a [...]

Public and private

So, I have had (until today) two Twitter accounts. There’s the public one — sigridellis — and there’s the one I’ve given out to family and people I know in person. The original idea was that I’d use the private one to talk about things that are of interest to people who’ve met [...]

No NaNoWriMo for me

Nope, nuh-uh. No National Novel Writing Month for me. But I am reading all this conversation and discussion of NaNoWriMo, and have decided to use all that talk to re-focus on script writing.
Over at iFanboy, Josh Flanagan talked recently about The Will vs. The Fear — essentially, about all the excuses we use to [...]

Ixtab for sale!

My latest comic, Ixtab, is now available for sale!
As the blurb says:
Ixtab is a reigning rock-queen, making her Mayan cultural heritage the cornerstone of her music and her act. But how does that fit with the family that adopted and raised her? Written by Sigrid Ellis. Art by K.C. Solano. Technical assistance provided by Erik [...]