I Survived the Sinking of the Titantic, 1912 by Lauren Tarshis. Scholastic Paperbacks (June 1, 2010). ISBN: 978-0545206945. 112 pages. Cover by Steve Stone. Interior Illustrations by Scott Dawson. RL4 007-010. Includes Facts about the Titanic and an Author’s Note. Book Blurb: Ten-year-old George Calder can’t believe his luck — he and his little sister, […]
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Things are very busy and a bit confusing here at the house of chaos. I’ll try to do a post tomorrow…yeah, really…mumble, mumble…I’ll try at least.
You know the type of day where you either want to pull out your hair by the roots or sit down and cry or maybe laugh hysterically? There’s no real way to handle a day like I had today. So, you plug along doing what you can and hoping that when it arrives, tomorrow will […]
This morning I caught sight of an article entitled, “U.S. scientists design underpants that could save lives“. Actually, the article I saw pointed to this article and said something like “Military pays for Hi-Tech underpants”. It was the title that caught me but it’s the article that got me thinking. Here’s a the information that […]
Remember that curse — May you live in interesting times. Well, I think this is a very, very interesting time. I used to think that if I got organized then everything would just somehow work out. I am so naive. All week I’ve been working on the TODO list I got ready last Sunday for […]
Bibliographic info: A Woman of Influence by Rebecca Ann Collins, Pride & Prejudice sequel series, Book 9, Sourcebooks Landmark, Pub. Date: June 1, 2010, ISBN: 978-1-4022-2451-5, 336 pages, List: $14.99. (Amazon: $10.19 / Kindle $9.99) I came late to this series, so I first met Rebecca “Becky” Tate in Recollection of Rosings where she seemed […]
Some days it seems that no matter what you do to get ahead, you end up behind. We came home from Balticon and set up all the laptops and the network again and found that the printer won’t work with the network anymore. So, it’s now hardwired to my USB port and we can only […]
I realize it’s now Wednesday and I hadn’t written up the last day of Balticon which was Monday, May 31st. So, here goes… First, we had a couple of items on our agenda for Balticon. The top one was to not embarrass myself when on a panel. I think I managed that except for the […]