I’m in the spirit now, are you? Christmas is just 18 days away! Happy Holidays! Here are the Chipmunks to help your stragglers get in the mood:

I have to work on these by keeping them mostly covered with work papers while I sneak pen strokes in when no one is passing by my cube. It’s been more challenging to get them done recently. I’m in a high traffic area. This one reminds me of that cartoon flee singing “There’ll be food…

A very happy SF Gate Article about the 5630 acre Jenner headlands deal. …That coastal prairie, check overlooking some of the most photographed views of the Pacific Ocean on the California coast, could have been sold as 38 homesites. But the Sonoma Land Trust and other nonprofit groups, plus government agencies, collaborated to forge the…

Yep, having another near miss with the eye poker so It’s time to share what I found on boing boing. Don’t you hate people that just report things they found on other aggregate sites? Me too! I hate myself. But I sure don’t hate Christopher Niemann. Well, I might hate him a little since I…

Every time I have a negative thought, I’m going to do something to get out of it. So for today’s negative thought, I searched on “dog on motorcycle” I came up with this weblog about a boy with a brain tumor. Here is the dog photo: The website is: Life with Steven. Steven was diagnosed…

I tried to go to my wordpress.com blog and got the following: Goshdarnit! Something has gone wrong with our servers. Itâ??s probably Mattâ??s fault. Weâ??ve just been notified of the problem. Hopefully this should be fixed ASAP, so kindly reload in a minute and things should be back to normal. Tom and I thought it…

Thanks to Aran Rhee on google groups, my bug is fixed and I can go on with my life now! Problem: My css drop down nav was showing up behind my swf. I needed to add a wmode=transparent but I was using swfObject 2.1 and couldn’t figure out how to add params. Thank you Aran!…

It’s been a strange week. I plunged head-long into my past and saturated my life and thoughts with memories. I think it was good for me, like a good therapy session, but now I’m feeling like re-entering the real world. I’ve been pretty lazy lately. Well, Tom would argue that my idea of lazy is…

It took me a sadly long time to be properly introduced to persimmons. Now I eat several a week and I can’t wait for fall each year. The squat fuyu persimmons that look like orange colored tomatoes are the ones you want if you want to eat them raw, the long Japanese kind need to…

Don’t throw away that turkey carcass! It’s time to make some delicious stock to last you the next couple of months. Homemade stock is far superior to store bought and once you see how easy it is to keep it handy, you’ll never go back to cans or cartons. We freeze ice cube trays full…

1 bag fresh cranberries1 cup orange juice3/4 cup sugar1/4 cup dried cherries or cranberries1/8 tsp freshly grated ginger or 1/4 tsp ground ginger1/8 tsp cinnamon1/8 tsp freshly grated nutmeg Rinse the cranberries and remove any berries that are wilted or not so fresh looking. Add cranberries, orange juice, sugar, dried fruit, and spices to a…

Hi, I know of a 6 month artist studio sublet in San Francisco near 3rd street and 22nd street. It’s about 500 sq feet and is $410 a month. email me if you are interested and I’ll forward you one.

mmm pumpkin pie Originally uploaded by Alanna Risse Gobble gobble gobble! Happy Thanksgiving! We ended up have a very quiet day. Just the 2 of us for most of the afternoon. Our one guest had oral surgery yesterday! So we may have all that stuffing, view yams, cranberry sauce, brussel sprouts, and gravy all to…

The Chamelions Seriocity I used to be so sure I used to be so certain Now it’s gone Always wanting more Bleating out excuses I have none Cast reflections in the water Now that the deed is done We’ll wait And watch the ripples fade away Hearts are breaking Someone’s daughter Joins with someone’s son…

From the SunHearld.com JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner Lester Spell says his agency will begin offering financial assistance to beekeepers in an effort to reverse the recent decline in the state’s honey bee population. Spell recently announced the financial assistance will be made available to eligible beginning beekeepers who establish up to four colonies…