I don’t know why, but Chloe absolutely loves Meghan’s Spider-Man Wacky Wall Crawler. Whenever I get near the end-table where it’s stashed, she starts meowing at me so sweetly and persistently until I just have to give in and get it out for her. She’ll spend an hour or two happily grabbing it […]
Argh! Huge fluffly flakes of snow are falling outside right now! Just the other day it was summer - now it’s trying to be winter. New England may have beautiful foliage in the fall, but it sure doesn’t last long before winter’s here!
I’m so excited - I’m going to see the Boston Ballet do Prokofiev’s Cinderella tomorrow afternoon! It’s only the third time I’ll have been to see a live ballet. My first time was in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1993 (I was a high school junior at the time). We saw Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping […]
I now have a new site dedicated to stringed instruments: Perfect Fifths. Of course, I’ll still talk about classical music stuff here, especially when it’s more on a personal level. Perfect Fifths is an experiment in creating a more focused, topic-driven website. It will have rehearsal tips, reviews of accessories, and other […]
And are you in Boston? Because I’ve had at least three or four people asking me if I could come work for them, or if I knew any other Java developers who do UI work. They still haven’t found a replacement for me at my last job, and that’s after more than a […]
For my birthday last year, my sister gave me the Better Homes and Gardens Biggest Book of Slow Cooker Recipes. I’m not much of a cook - my usual mode is to pop something in the microwave (though I do occasionally like to make desserts from scratch). So, for months the book sat […]
