Notes From Neptune

I write about people, places, and things.

Looking back on the year…

I’ve been reading all sorts of posts and articles lately about preparing for the new year by cleaning house and your other assorted slates, so as to start in the orderly and calm fashion in which you hope to continue.  I’ve also seen quite a few posts that reflect on the year past, and the many feats accomplished and obstacles overcome. I really like both of these ideas.  The most.. Read More

I DID IT!

Well folks, after much toil and travail, I have succeeded in transitioning my humble little blog from the open source version of MovableType I was using to the sleek, quick, every-idiot-can-use-it interface of WordPress.  Joy! I took an immediate liking to this theme template, but I had quite a bit of trouble getting it configured to my exacting specifications.  Lots of cache-clearing and HTML-tweaking later, it is here as you.. Read More

Hey there knitters:

Do any of you ever have that thing where just kind of want to punch all your works-in-progress because you have for many and varied reasons developed grudges against every last one of them? Right. Me neither.

It’s cold.

Finally. I was wondering if it was ever going to turn proper winter. While I am rejoicing in the chill and the chance to wear all my warm woolly things (I have become convinced in later years that some part of my family must have come from the Nordic peninsula, or perhaps Siberia), it has made the daily commute to work a bit more treacherous for the skin of my.. Read More