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 [...]

Tuesday is all over the place.

1. It’s the return of the autumnal mice. Every other year or so, as the weather gets cooler, our kitchen gets mice. This is because we a) line in a house built in 1916 or thereabouts, with the “new addition” put on in the ’40s, and is therefore porous, b) we have [...]

San Diego to Altoona to Oshkosh

Most of my Google Reader and Twitter has been filled with Comic-Con International at San Diego this week. Honestly, I’ve been skipping the news. I caught the Eisner winners — congratulations to Matt Fraction! — but that’s about it. My week and weekend were occupied by other locations, ones that don’t [...]