Gee, I've been busy. Been having one of those weeks where something happens, and you think, "Gee, I ought to post in my journal about that," and then you don't quite manage to sit down and do it.

Though, one of the things I did while I was neglecting this journal was start a food blog: Spaceling Cafe. (Daniel came up with the name. A few readers out there will recognize "Spaceling" as an old nickname of mine.) I'm really not so sure that it's a serious blog - it may end up being just an online archive of recipes I've tried and liked. Which is fine, since I've often wished for such a thing.

Anyway, if you're curious about what I've been making for dinner lately, go on over and check it out.

This past weekend was mostly occupied by two things that I never seem to manage to do enough of: housecleaning and socializing. On Saturday, I scrubbed the shower. I cleaned the bathroom floors. I tidied up a bit in the family room. Daniel vacuumed and did a pile of laundry. There was much rejoicing.

On Sunday, our dear friend Amelia came to see us, and we ate sushi, and then camped out at Peet's Coffee and all wrote fiction. I actually got a decent amount of work done on a short story. It was so much fun, I did a little more work on the short story last night. It would be nice to build up some fiction writing momentum again - it's been a bit lacking of late.

Tomorrow at work, they're moving me to a new office. Actually, from a shared office to a cube. I regret losing the office a little, but they just don't have the space to give everybody an office. I may get to have an office again when Geekville completes its new building in about a year. Then again, cubes actually have their advantages - you can pretty much see and hear what's going on in the group - it's hard to feel kept in the dark.

This is actually the advantage and the disadvantage of cubes.

No, what really kind of irks me about this move is that while it puts me in the same building as all the other tech writers, it moves me out of the building where most of the engineers working on my product are. Which means that those "spontaneous" hallway ambushes get more difficult. I'll adapt, I suppose.

One other silly thing I wanted to post about: I stopped at Starbucks this morning, and as I was sitting at a table outside, a woman parked a Rolls Royce in the spot in front of me. That alone is something that you don't see every day. But what really tickled me was this: when she shut off the car and got out, a little hatch opened up under the hood ornament, and the ornament retracted under the hood, and then the hatch closed. Wild. It looked like something you would see on the Batmobile. Presumably, it's to deter hood ornament theft, but it was still really cool.