I need to get back into the habit of blogging. It’s far too easy to let it slip, when you don’t think you have anything interesting to say. So I’ll just have to make an update every day for a week, to get into the habit. This is number one, and it’s a general update.

The last few months have been interesting. We’re making do or doing without, but we’re okay. Recently, I discovered a deep-seated enjoyment of tonic water. Not gin and tonic, mind you. Just tonic water, on ice. I bought Manda a USB flash stick, and installed Portable Firefox on it for her.

I just bought an MP3 player for the car; one of those deals where you plug the whole unit directly into the lighter for power, then plug a USB flash drive full of music into the USB port on the player, and it plays through the FM transmitter in the gadget. Kinda neat, and only $30. Good thing I’ve got a 512MB key fob. That’s about 4 hours of music if I leave room for my other files.

I also bought a soroban (a kind of Japanese abacus), a copy of Stranger in a Strange Land (Manda’s wanted to read it for years and years), and I’m also in the market for a good all-metal 10” slide rule.

Damn it. I’ve said so little, and now I’m out of things to say. Have to think about that.