"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."

Its possible that, while we were sick, I may have accidentally weaned the baby. Oops. Oh well, he seems none the worse for wear.

Oh yeah, as a bonus while being so sick he two bottom teeth. They're very small and cute.

Evan is now well, but Josh and I are both now sick.

While the baby was sick, we moved him back into our room, in the co-sleeper, and he's been sleeping soundly completely through the night (off to bed at 830 - 9 pm, doesn't wake up even when the alarm goes off at 6 am. We have to wake him up and he is none. too. happy. about. that.) I think I've figured out why he sleeps so much better when he's in with us. I think its too quiet in his room.

You may know, his father snores a bit. (heh) Evan has, one way or another, heard that snoring every night since he was, erm, created. When we moved him to his own room, it was quiet. Now that he's back in with us, the snoring is back and I'm sure he finds it comforting. I'm not quite sure what to do about that....

Anyway, here are some links:

Trumpette
Awesome baby socks.

Smithsonian Photography Initiative

Ikea Hacker
Heh. Someday I'll visit an Ikea, but I somehow doubt it will live up to the hype.

Flea Circus
select a trick from the pulldown menu at the upper right.

One of my goals for the new year is to try and get back to surfing the web and posting in the same way that I once did, both here (for my private amusement) and on Metafilter. To that end, here is your Gazette for the day:

Square America
A gallery of vintage snapshots & vernacular photography


Earliest Uses of Various Mathematical Symbols
These pages show the names of the individuals who first used various common mathematical symbols, and the dates the symbols first appeared.


Science's 10 Most Beautiful Physics Experiments


Practically Edible
The Web's Biggest Food Encyclopaedia


The Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society
An awesome blog for Science Geeks and Smart People


anglo-saxons.net
England c.450-1066 in a Nutshell


Vintage Coin Operated Fortune Tellers, Arcade Games, Digger/Cranes, Gun Games and other Penny Arcade games, pre-1977


Historia Ecclesiastica
An ecclesioblog, that is, a blog mostly on the history of the Church


50 Things We Know Now
(That We Didn't Know This Time Last Year)
2006 Edition

Maine People's Alliance is looking (once again) for a Telephone Canvass Supervisor. Click here for details about the job. In particular, we need someone with a very, very strong HR background. Note that the Telephone Canvass doesn't have anything to do with "cold calling" - they contact members to renew their MPA membership. As an added bonus you'll get 100% employer paid health insurance (Anthem HMO) and you'll get to work closely with me. Feel free to forward this around, if you know of anyone who is qualified and who might be interested.

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In other news, I forgot to weigh myself this morning, and low-fat triscuts are not nearly as tasty as regular triscuts.

( Did I tell you about the cookies? )

Nothing else to report here. If you live in Portland, check out 88.3 FM - its excellent. I wish they had a webcast.

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The Medieval Manuscript Manual

The Stars and Stripes
The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I (1918-1919) (on-line archive)

This book has been relocated by the Ministry of Reshelving

Pee & Poo
"We are Pee & Poo. Escapees from the bathroom, we are entering the world on a journey filled with new adventures. Maybe we can stay with you for a while?" (Be sure to check out the products page)

The Hidden Door Company
Sadly, they don't seem to actually make any secret passageways

YesButNoButYes: Ten Pioneers of Striptease

I will write more about the halloween party later this week, but the bottom line is that it went well. Big-ish crowd, most of the food got et, fairies came and did the dishes over night (!).

Pumpkin Gutter

Haunted Paper Toys

Miss Mary's Victorian Halloween

Secrets of the Haunted Mansion

Old Haunts

I've tried twice to post this, and my computer has frozen in the middle of the process both times. Perhaps the third time is the charm.

Hey! You! Make a comment, ok? I'm wondering if anyone ever reads these darn things!

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If I take the trouble to spell my name for you, will you please take the trouble to write down all the letters I give you? In the right order? Please? My name is not particularly complex. Your failure to write it down correctly when I take the trouble to spell it out for you is beyond lazy.

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Kath and Robert are wed. Beatiful day. Rain held off until after we were done. A bit cold and crisp, though. Stunningly beatiful ceremony - gothic chapel, superb music (a piper!), fairy princess!, moving words, lots of friends, home-made truffles - a perfect day, really.

I was asked to do the photos, and I did them, God Help Me. Dropped them off at the crunchy-photo-geek developing place this morning. Nine rolls of 36 plus 10 disposable cameras. Ow. Since I don't normally shoot with the flash or play around quite this much with the fstops, I'm terrified that I've somehow screwed up the entire thing and they'll all be grey, awful and unusable. I suppose you get what you pay for. I did splurge and get them on disc as well as the negs, so hopefully if any of them are good I'll be able to post them here. But I'm going to be on pins and needles all week, waiting....

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I need to get a paid account to get more icons, don't I? Sigh.

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Must finish inside decorations tonight for Halloween party on Saturday. Plus go out and buy some candy for the trick or treat candy bags. Second year in a row I've forgotten to make an oriental trading order until its too late. *sigh* next year for sure

So, finish decorations tonight. Work 8-4 then 5-10 Tues, Wed, and Thursday. Friday off all day so I can do things like vacuum and move furniture around and dust and clean the bathrooms. And change sheets and make beds if anyone ends up being a weekend guest. (If you're reading this and plan on being a weekend guest, please let me know asap.)

Note to self: Buy Pumpkins!

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Fright Catalog

Vintage Skivvies

My Favorite Word

Television Obscurities

Where Babies Come From (In German)
Warning! Cartoons, but probably still not safe for work or school!
Page 21 alarms me. I think its the position of the hands.

Bonus Link! Give Figbash a Poke To Learn Your Fate
Now you know what a Figbash is.....

I'm sure you're already familiar with Found Magazine.

Look At Me
"A Collection of Found Photos" - mainly black and white, early 20th c

Is This You?
Found Photobooth Photos

Square America
"A gallery of vintage snapshots & vernacular photography"
Scroll down and check out all the gallery groups -- I'm a big fan of Costume Party and The Book of Sleep

Big Happy Fun House
Even more found photos