First day of spring, new musical interests, and being stiff and sore
Happy equinox/first day of spring… finally! I had my first clematis blossoms open on my really early Clematis armandii ’Apple Blossom’ And I almost have daffodils open (outside of the teeny mini-daffodils), but I guess those are for next week. Yeah, I said that last week, but the Replete...
Transplanting and throne room music
Most of my productivity seems to have been outside in the garden this week. I’ve been bitching about my squirrel issues, which seem to be done for now (fingers crossed!). One of the things I’ve been mindful of is making sure there isn’t any large or sturdy branch within...
Squirrels suck, free downloads, and other news
That time of the week again: the Saturday life update blog. Well… let’s see here… Zamo was right about squirrels. Dad’s been thwarting the squirrels in various spots, but somehow they’ve still been getting in. I haven’t heard them in the attic of the house in the last few...
Forget what I said about university, lol…
First up, an update about the whole returning to university thing: Yeah, forget that. LOL… I mentioned a bit about this on the last episode of Under My Skin, but the decision is now final. I started having doubts last week, though both my brother and my best friend...
Winter’s last (I hope!) snow tantrum and I’m never wrong but I might have been not entirely correct this one time
Ah, it seems like I just wrote the last Saturday blog… The snow fell, about 5-6” of it at my house, and while it did cover everything, it seems the irises are now emerging from it not that much worse off than before it hit. I expect this is...
Snow… ugh… also some notes from watching old Tony Awards, Irish taxes, etc.
Dia duit. Just finished the Irish 101 course from Dublin City University and about to start Irish 102 next week. Both are free through futurelearn.com, which is good for those of us who might well have a little Scottish in us mixed with the Irish and hence don’t want...
Pop up books, pop up bulbs, and a whole lot of republishing posts and podcasts
Where to start this week… a lot of my “work” time was spent right here or on related sites. I spent all evening Thursday uploading more than 100 Zamo the Destroyer episodes to my Soundcloud after doing the unlimited storage space upgrade. I had had the first 97 episodes...
Greetings from transcript (and lazy winter flower) Hell
So, the good news is the university has gotten my transcript from the audio recording school I attended. Of course, said school doesn’t really do official transcripts so they sent a PDF of my grades records, which the university has received but put as a separate item on my...
Musicals?
Another week and what’s new? Well, work is continuing on the poetry book and the sitcom/web series with dolls thing, and I’m getting transcripts in for my university application. But the real news is I’ve had some ideas for musicals. Wait… what? Yes, musicals. The first nebulous idea was...
The university robots think my name is Phoenix… and other news
Another week drags on… seems like on Wednesday I had some clever idea for a blog post but I was lazy and didn’t write it so now I’ve forgotten and here we are. Well, one can argue blog posts are never as clever as the blogger might think. So...