My ukulele finally arrived yesterday. It is no longer experiencing an exception, in UPS-speak.
And it’s lovely, and I’m very happy with it, and my fingertips are already very tender from trying to play it.
The cats are enthralled. All I have to do is start fumbling around with it, and I have an attentive feline audience. [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 14, 2009
Ascending the learning curve
January 9, 2009
No, it never stops raining in Seattle. Ever.
Between pouring rain and snowmelt following the Christmas storms, western Washington State is a mess.
Seattle, at the moment, is an island. Both I-5 and I-90, the major freeways into the Puget Sound region, have been shut down, and probably will not re-open until Saturday or Sunday. Long stretches of I-5 are under floodwaters, and I-90 [...]
January 4, 2009
Snow. And books. And saying “Yes.”
Good lord–it is snowing again. Really snowing. And it’s been sticking ever since it started to fall at about 6:00 PM. The street is completely whited over, and my sad, hummocky mess of a lawn almost looks attractive (as snow hides myriad landscaping sins).
This means Seattle will once again be in a state of paralysis [...]
