A Wandering Eyre

After being around everyone at ALA who had shiny phones with internet access and iPads, I have had some serious tecnohlust going on. I would absolutely adore a Droid X, but we can not afford two and Mr. Rochester already assured me we would have to fight for it. He was not joking, but I [...]

I married a man who can be as full of the snark as I am and Lord does that ever make me happy. Today he sent me a link to a CNN article about Apple admitting their iPhones have reception issues. Really? I never knew.
The best thing about the email was that he said not [...]

Two interesting articles on vampires came across my sights today.
The first one is an interview with Neil Gaiman (we aren’t worthy!). He talks about the evolution of the vampire motif and what it has meant to fiction during different parts of history. It is brilliant and lovely as only Neil Himself can be.
The second article [...]

A husband that comes in the door with a beer in his hand and a kiss on his lips is welcome indeed.
–Jane, happy penultimate Friday

Mr. Rochester wrote a post on our family blog about his plans on funding his retirement. The previous post on this blog was my take on our conversation. His is a bit different. While he gets almost everything wrong but the “conferences” part about my book, the rest of his post is very amusing (says [...]

In light of NASA’s trouble with the Constellation Project and a possible end to his employment, Mr. Rochester informed me yesterday that he has a new plan for our financial future. Of course, this plan involves my labor and ideas, but who’s counting?
He informed me that I should be able to write something better than [...]

I have an Alienware laptop that I love. I mean I really love this laptop. Her name is Inara (not Vera, sorry, Jayne!) I think geeks feel about their computers the way some people feel about cars. Seriously, Mr. Rochester just built a computer, which we dubbed Nightcrawler (we have decided to go with an [...]

Last week something happened that did not make big news, but it should have.
Timothy Vernor, an eBay vendor, won a court case in the state of Washington against Autodesk, the makers of AutoCAD.
Verner was selling used versions, not copies, of AutoCAD in his eBay store. Autodesk contended that because software is licensed by users [...]

You have a serious debate with your husband over what order is the proper viewing order for Star Wars when it is time to introduce them to your children.
Do you go with the traditional viewing, Episodes 4,5,6,1,2,3?
Do you show them chronology and run the risk of the special effects of the newer ones shadowing the [...]

This has been a very different and interesting conference for me due to Mr. R and the Wee Bairn being with me in Chicago. I am very happy to have them here. In fact, I am certain that I would have been miserable without them.
Having them here has meant that I act more my age. [...]