It’s been a productive weekend at OWS. After 3 hours in the cold drizzle yesterday in the name of soccer/magnet ball, I’ve spent most of the rest of my time inside - in the name of books.
I made excellent progress in finishing revisions to another chapter of my novel. I’m in the middle of The Big Scene, about 3 [...]
It looks like Don Hammonds of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and I were on the same wave length (and publication deadline) last night. My comments in response to Don’s article (even though he or you didn’t ask) are these:
He’s right that the Touring package has the niftiest features at the highest price tag of all Prius models. [...]
Late breaking news alert here in the ‘burgh - and it’s not the nightly weather report with a booming voice-over of “Stay tuned for your Severe Storm Alert!” Nope, this evening Pittsburgh resumed its crown as Rand McNally’s America’s Most Livable City, more than 20 years after the original crowning.
I’m not a native, but I’ve always thought this city [...]
As I wrote in my first post, I recently bought a Toyota Prius to replace my ‘01 Subaru Outback. The Outback was not a “bad” car - in fact, I longed to be one of those die-hard Subaru fans driving their vehicle until it conks out at 300 gazillion miles. But at 106,000 miles, it had cost me $3,500 [...]
I’ve noticed a new character in the decorating and home improvement shows I watch: the Drill-Wielding Super Babe. I usually view these shows out of the corner of my eye while I’m responding to emails, chatting with my family, or otherwise multi-tasking, but I swear I’ve seen several shows now with hot female carpenters at the helm. These friendly and pretty gals spend their time chatting [...]
My friend told me the other day he thought the names I use in this blog for my children were interesting choices. Not sure if this meant “Wow, that Susan is awfully clever and my life is enriched because she is my friend!” kind of interesting, or ”Gotta hand it to her. She’s really going against the [...]
On my lunch hour today I ventured out into the driving wind to buy tickets to the stage production of Disney’s High School Musical, which is coming here in June. In case you haven’t heard of it or the hit song mentioned above (and you wouldn’t if you don’t have a child between the ages of say 7 [...]
I had a busy day today: a morning on the soccer field, laundry and cleaning, and a visit with a friend over coffee. I planned to work on draft 2 of my novel tonight, but I haven’t. Instead, I’ve been surfing the net, putzing around the house and working on my blog. I only have a few more chapters to [...]
I wanted to clarify my comment from the Flaw-O-Matic post about the guy who asked me about my bra size during an online dating exchange. I don’t want you to get the wrong idea about him. I’m sure he’s a nice guy, just misunderstood. If I recall, our exchange went something like this:
Guy: “You’re great; I’m great; blah, [...]
In my post yesterday about speed dating, I meant to link to an article Sarah sent to me. Published in the NY Times earlier this week, John Tierney explains the Flaw-O-Matic theory of romantic revulsion in online dating and speed dating.
ABSTRACT. In this meta-analysis of online dating and speed dating, we propose a corollary to the Flaw-O-Matic theory of romantic [...]
