We’re doing something with this move that we always say we should do when we move: go through all the random piles of crap and extraneous boxes of paperwork and so on and so forth and getting rid of it before we move. To that end, we have just emptied out the front bedroom in its entirety. It was probably the least full-of-crap-to-empty, because it’d been cleaned out recently to become a baby’s room, and then again to become a guest bedroom. We did find about a dozen 3-6 month…
gmail question
Is there a way, in gmail, to automatically send an email to a certain filter? (Label, they’re called labels in gmail. Whatever. A filter.) A way to select all of the email addresses in an archived filter and send one email to all of ’em? Or a way to suck them all into a contacts mailing list without adding them each individually? Because if there’s not, there really ought to be… In the meantime (and yes, relatedly), might I remind you that there’s an Old Races novella commission going on?…
periscope up!
Resurfacing to say I’m blogging over at Paranormal Romance today. Young Indiana is very interested by this: *periscope down*
birthday present
My dad took up wood carving recently, and has made a variety of cool things over the past couple years. This one, however, which was my birthday present, goes way beyond cool and straight into ‘heartstabby and sniffly wonderful’: That is possibly the best birthday present I’ve ever gotten. :) It’s sycamore, and I’m not sure I’ve properly captured how beautifully the wood gleams, and I’m not sure it’s possible to capture how very, very smooth the finish is. It’s just *beautiful*.
the “Kit and Ted Are Moving” commission
In the “it never rains but it pours” department of major life changes, it looks like we’ll be moving to Dublin in the next few weeks. Ted’s gotten a job there, and a commute from our current location is out of the question. (He’ll be doing X-Box tech support; the hours and pay are better than chefing!) However, as moving is expensive and we’re caught a bit flat-footed financially in the face of suddenly needing to, I’m doing a “help Kit and Ted move” novella (in all likelihood, anyway, as…