Jun. 25th, 2011

mmegaera: (reading)
Both of my local newspapers (the Tacoma News Tribune and the Seattle Times) have decided to be idiots and drop their Sunday TV guides in favor of a separate TV listing flyer that you have to pay extra for (in addition to the price of the newspaper). As a matter of principle, and because the main reason I've picked up a Sunday Seattle Times (the News Tribune being politically somewhere to the right of Dick Cheney, which means I refuse to support it) every week for the last almost eighteen years has been mainly for the TV schedule (does anyone actually read a paper newspaper for the news anymore?), I am now in search of some sort of free (or seriously cheap -- I was paying $1.50 a week for the entire newspaper and the TV listings are worth maybe a third of that to me) printable weekly TV listing website for the greater Seattle area that I can put on my coffee table so that I don't have to go to my computer to look shows up.

I only have bare bones cable. It does not come with a printed or printable TV guide, either. And going to each channel's website separately every week is not going to happen. My google-fu is seriously failing me on this one.

Any suggestions? Please? Don't leave this one uncommented on, okay?

Thanks!
mmegaera: (writing)
Yes, I know most people in general think of him as Columbo. And most people here probably think of him as the Grandfather in The Princess Bride.

But to me Peter Falk will always be Max, Professor Fate's brilliantly inept henchman in the movie containing, among other things, the greatest pie fight in cinematic history, The Great Race.

I was especially saddened to hear that he'd died of Alzheimers.

RIP.
mmegaera: (quilting)
Just some relatively small things that I've been tinkering with this spring when I got to the point where I simply couldn't look at the Yule Log Cabin quilt anymore. I suspect I'm going to have Issues with the Yule Log Cabin quilt for years to come -- it's the quilt I was working on during both Linnet's and Morgan's last days. Maybe it'll get easier to work on again after the new kittens have moved in this fall.

First, a couple of little cross-stitch panels that are eventually going to be incorporated into a quilt. I have no idea yet what pattern I will use for the quilt, or how many cross-stitch panels I'm actually going to make (I have about a dozen more flower patterns of the correct size to choose from, plus I'd like to try my hand at creating at least one more from a photo).

gladiolus.jpg
I love glads, and have some in my garden, although I don't think any of them are red [g].

larkspur.jpg

I like that one of these larkspurs is light blue, and the other dark blue.

And a very simple baby quilt, for my very nice and very helpful next-door neighbors. She's due in September:

Bartholomew baby quilt.jpg
mmegaera: (travel)
And I'll stop spamming everyone's FLs.

A hike on Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge's new 2-mile boardwalk across the wetlands to Puget Sound.

http://mmjustus.blogspot.com

Please comment there.
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