Warrawhatnow?

Not sure whether Red Pen, Inc. has touched on this yet, but it’s one of my recent pet peeves.

This word appears to be the bastard lovechild of ‘guarantee’ and ‘warranty’. While ‘warrantee’ is technically a word – meaning a person to whom a warrant has been issued – it has nothing to do with purchases. [...]

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On Eternity

(Note: This was actually written in a paper notebook (you know, those $1.19 laptops) about a year and a half ago, and I just recently refound it. I’m posting it here to test a theory.)
One of the strangest things about being dead is how long it takes you to become aware of it. You lie [...]

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Pizza is awesome

I have noticed something about my posts to this blog: I haven’t dedicated nearly enough space to discussing how awesome pizza is.
Or indeed any.
This is a travesty, about to be rectified.

A couple of nights ago, while attempting to make something L would eat, I mentioned to D that we should offer thanks to the person [...]

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Great Moments in Parenting

Parenting isn’t easy. Some days you just feel adrift in a sea of tantrums and teething and stanky diapers, with no end in sight.
But there are also moments when you realize it’s all worth it.

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Tied up in Nots

I’ve seen a couple of people blogging something like this, and it seemed an interesting idea: a list of what one is not. So here goes.
I am not giving up my Britishness even though I am on the verge of being granted American citizenship. This is not to say that I’m not valuing the American [...]

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One thousand!

It looks as though this blog saw its thousandth visitor on Monday. If I had a penny for every hit, it would look like this:

While it’s a far cry from the dizzying six-digit heights reached by global blogging megastars like Arjewtino and his ilk, it’s a nice milestone to hit. Looking forward to 10,000 next.
Unfortunately, [...]

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Back 2 Life, Back 2 Realty

Yes, realty. That’s not a typo.

Had I gotten off my rear and posted in the last few weeks, you would know that we are working on buying a house. I’ve never bought a house, and as such there were a number of unexpected variables in the equation. </mathgeek>
The real killer, however, is the waiting between [...]

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De Re Crepusculari

I’d been happily ignorant of the Twilight books for a long time, indeed enough so that when YA literary fandom began hyping the release of Breaking Dawn with a fervor second only to the Harry Potter firestorms, my only thought on the matter was “who the hell is Stephenie Meyer?”.

The subsequent movie posters did little [...]

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