We went to a local coffeeshop for a breakfast bagel.

This is what happens when a dish soap container goes into the dishwasher.

I made Turkish bread. This was to eat while we watched the DVD of Guns, Germs & Steel. With people coming over, I was asked why I wasn't cooking up a storm. I replied that I'd already made three loaves of bread (one Turkish, two banana)that day. This seemed like enough cooking.

I'm one of a very few people who actually enjoy the morning commute. This is actually a very pleasant way to spend a morning. I get to ride a trazin, watch the sunrise and drink my tea. I like my commute.

This is a sweater in progress.

As I said, I like my commute.

This was a gift. Is this supposed to mean something?

This is part of the Twisted Toys effort, preparing for Santarchy.

This is my garden.

We went to a Long Now lecture on the short term thinking of Millenialists.

Got a suggestion for a provider of downloadable audio books? I've been subscribed to Audible but their new website is unusable. I'm on a DSL connection and it takes multiple minutes to bring up the home page. Two of the last three items I just purchased can't be downloaded. (silent failure or something about audio file can't be prepared). When I tried to send a query to support, that timed out, too.

I'm looking for a new service, one that has a website that can be used to browse and search without waiting multiple minutes for the screen to refresh. It would also be nice if I could actually download the items I purchased. Maybe it's a temporary problem but I have no way of knowing since the Support email times out. I have no way of knowing if my question made it into the queue or not. I guess I could try calling but I'd rather not spend my Saturday morning navigating a customer support phone tree or being on hold.

I'm looking for somethng with a large inventory of non-fiction, reasonably priced, easily browsable (itunes loses here and the new audible web site can't return a result in under 3 minutes which makes it unusable).

I just timed it. Loading the front page of audible.com took two minutes, 58 seconds. That isn't a usable web site.

After three days, Audible sent me an email telling me to read the FAQ. This does nothing to solve the problem. I still cannot download 2 of the 3 items I purchased. I'll give them until the end of the week to fix it and then do a chargeback with my credit card. Meanwhile, I search for a better place to buy audio books.

Audible sent me another automated response suggesting I read their FAQ. That doesn't help.

We took another road trip.

People in the South seem to be fond of smoking at gas stations. Close to half of the gas stations we visited had someone smoking at the pump.

This is the largest roadrunner.

This used to be the largest roader.

This is me on a dinosaur.

We saw a really big fire hydrant.

We went to New Orleans.

This is the Superdome in happier times.

This is the 16th St. Baptist Church where the three girls were killed in a bombing.

More dinosaur-love at South of the Border.

Finally...the Atlantic Ocean.

This is so organized, it's confusing.

My garden is starting to bloom. These flowers always start to bloom at the end of December.

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The wisteria is starting to grow.

I don't do Christmas but this year, I got myself into a deadline knitting project where I had several knitted projects to finish. I didn't make it. One recipient got one mitten. Since she has two hands, I finished the second mitten which will go into the mail.

The Cala Lillies in my garden seem to like the rain.

This is some fancy tea.

In another month, I'll have many lemons.

Today, I roasted a turkey. I made stuffing after baking loaf of bread. The cranberry sauce turned out quite well. I boiled frozen cranberries, water, sugar and a slice of pineapple. I know this is supposed to take an apple but I didn't have an apple. I did have pineapple (from a roasted pineapple salsa that is still in progress) so I used that, instead.