Non-primordial soup

Here are a couple of soups I experimented with recently.

Pumpkin-in-a-pumpkin soup ( Read more... )

Fake Chinese sweet-bean soup ( Read more... )

On the house project front, I fit in the linen-closet re-org last night and have added the twin sheets to the bag intended for Goodwill. And I've had seven responses to the Craigs List ad, so tonight I think it's time to move on to the next stage of screening. (Including internet background checks.)

Oooh! Oooh! Book!

My contributor's copy of Sword and Sorceress XXII came in the mail today! I still haven't gotten over the thrill of seeing my name (or, more to the point, my characters' names) in print.

Teensy little quake

The last several quakes I've felt have been centered very locally, so I was guessing that this one was maybe around a 3 -- just enough to make the bookshelves creak slightly. But evidently it was a 5-something down in the South Bay. The anecdotal commentary so far suggests the local effects were really variable. Perhaps some odd propagation patterns?