Month: April 2014
And onward!
Ball Obsessed
Somewhere, Frances had a tennis ball stashed. She’s been whining and crying at me, wanting me to throw it. No, ma’am.
The Answer
Whatever the question, I’m pretty sure brownies is the answer. Homemade and warm and gooey.
Colonnade
Greening
Everything is turning pale green. The trees are pretty, but they are trying to kill me. Tree pollen has been off the charts.
7"
I have no idea why someone wrote 7″ with a little X marks the spot, in the corner of one of the library stairwells. I walk by it every day, and it perplexes me.
Biscuits
This evening is all about making biscuits. Also making lentils and brown rice, but the biscuits are the what’s making me happy.
Is There an Editor in the House?
This book was clearly converted from paper to text via OCR. You can tell by the lack of spacing in passages of dialogue, making it seem as if the characters are talking to themselves, and by the peculiar substitution of Em and Ell for I’m and I’ll, and alsoplustoo by the frequent instances where multiple words are run together.
Normally, you’d expect a human editor to clean up that mess. But you might also expect a human editor to have caught the misuse of “their” in the print version that the digital copy was made from. In both cases, you would be WRONG.
And this was not a 99 cent special from Bob’s Backyard DIY Publishing Shack, either. I paid $6.00 for that load of crap, which was published by St. Martin’s Press.
In the Sun
Frances in the Sun
I got Frances the StarMark Treat Ball a few months ago. She loves it, and it’s held up really well. And it’s soft jelly plastic, so it’s really quiet. I usually stuff it with a few puppy sized dog biscuits, but today, she’d already had as many of those as I thought she should. What to do? I sliced up some chunks of carrot, stuffed them in the treat ball, and gave it to her. It was a big hit!
red paper boat 