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Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:26:13 GMT

1. The jambalaya seems to have worked. The first helping, on Sunday, was OK but seemed a bit less robustly flavored than I expected. The second helping, yesterday, was delicious, although a little watery - I may not have let the rice simmer quite long enough.

2. We seem to have escaped winter for a while; Wunderground has our highs above 50F through Saturday. Light snow next Monday, though....

3. A couple of days ago, I finished subcataloging the Annals of America. It took a long and weary time; twenty-one volumes, most with a hundred or more documents, and some of those documents combined more than one original piece. Still, done; now I'm moving rapidly through the Great Books. (This is the Hutchins/Adler set; I bought it, and the Annals, when I bought my Britannica back in the late '80s.) Most of those have only a few works in them, so they're going much faster. The volume of Plotinus is coming up soon, though, and I just realized that I can't just record it as "The Enneads", nor as six separate works; each of the six Enneads is actually a collection of essays, each of which will have to be entered separately. ("Will have to" in order to satisfy the rules I set for myself in beginning this project.)

4. I'm also constructing a database for tracking my characters' progress in Skyrim; I'm not playing Skyrim again until I've got this set up. Thus far, I've been entering the basic data - skills, perks, races, quests, locations - and establishing links between them (e.g., you can't enter Kilkreath Ruins until you begin the Break of Dawn quest). The connections between the different quests need to go in next; then I'll be able to start building character-specific tables and forms. (Sometimes, my need to organize information gets to be a pain....)

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Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:52:10 GMT

I just noticed that, as of my purchase of a Who album, I have songs on my computer titled "Who Am I", "Who Are You", and "Who Is He". No "she", "it", "we", or "they" as yet.

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Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:54:31 GMT

Last year, when I began putting together my library database, one of my goals was to distinguish between Volumes - physical books - and Works - individual, self-contained pieces of writing, which might appear in more than one Volume. I'm in the process of "subcataloging" my library, recording which Works appear in which Volumes. This is a rather more tangled task than I expected, and I'm going to mumble and grumble about it under the cut. Feel free not to look.

( Who? What? Where? )

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