A Wandering Eyre

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 [...]

In an effort to get ready for ALA, I turned on the Twitter widget that creates a post from my daily Tweets. Sadly, it went a bit haywire. I will try to fix it today, but there may be another strange post tomorrow. The rumors are true. I am bringing Mr. Rochester and Baby Rochester [...]

Mr. Rochester is a picky reader in the sense that there are just very few things he wants to read bad enough to actually read them. He finds reading a bit boring. I know at this point you are wondering why I married him, especially after he locked his first wife in the attic (she [...]

A cautionary tale of how a family full of geeks can carry a thing too far. On Saturday, my family got together to see the new Star Trek movie, eat homemade pizza, an enjoy the good company. Well, we really just wanted to talk about how cute our babies are, but who can blame us? [...]

It has been a banner year for thankfulness at the Rochester household. Some things I am thankful for are simple and some are more dear, more complex. Here is a list of things this year has brought me. Good coffee with real cream – My mother-in-law always drinks real cream in her coffee, and after [...]

Dear, lovely, readers, it has been a sad, sad past few weeks for Jane. I have been without the Internet and Cable since the hurricane. This would normally be a trial, but since I also stay home full time, I feel like I have been stranded on some hellish island in which I only have [...]

Ike is on his way and we are in the (cue ominous music) Cone of Uncertainty!!!!!! I think this is a crazy name for the situation in which your house may or may not be battered by wind, rain, tornadoes, and storm surge, but I do not have a better label. The problem with uncertainty [...]

First Beer of the Season Originally uploaded by Wandering Eyre It is one of my favorite times of year… Oktoberfest time. We have a local brewery in Houston called St. Arnold and they make many delicious seasonal brews. They only brew a finite amount, so often you have to know when the brews are due [...]

If you want to know what is going on with the Rochester clan, and let me warn you we do nothing the easy way, please go read Defying Genetics. If you are waiting for snarky Jane to return, please continue your holding pattern. –Jane, getting used to the routine of the NICU

(picture inclusion with a nod towards Helene Blowers) This post has been a long time coming. If all works out accordingly, this post will be published directly after or right before I hand the interested parties my letter of resignation from the University of Houston Libraries where I have worked for three and a half [...]