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Life has just been too crammed full to post here lately, in between churning out a long list of freelance pieces before the end of the year, and I got back late last night from a 4-day trip to Vancouver, while still catching up from a wedding trip to New Orleans with two of my Lovely Housemates for dear old friend

humidcityloki. I came home to a long article to write today, and hundreds and hundreds of emails to wade through, but I have a warm cat on my lap, and I got to sleep in my own bed last night, and I have a cup of good coffee on my desk, and I can get to the Internet again, and I'm not in the middle of 12-hour-long consensus meetings, so all is well. It is indescribably good to be home, driving onto my own land and walking in the door felt like a long drink of cool water after days in the desert. I don't enjoy travelling nearly as much as I used to. One of these days I'll probably just put down roots, I swear...which reminds me of a Dutch song I learned a couple of days ago, about putting down deeply into the earth the roots that grow out of your ass. Great song, funny and lively and all I can think is that's one of those things that would require a family-sized tube of Preparation H...

Some pics of Vancouver and Seattle, including a lovely sunset: http://web.mac.com/chelidon/iWeb/Site/WWC-06.html

And two links, one a potentially interesting one for my gardening friends: The History of Gardening: A Timeline From Ancient Times to the Twentieth Century",

and the other, not nearly so fun: Global warming already killing species, analysis says

Speaking of warming, I was looking at pictures of the main stream here, and I notice that about a week ago two years ago it was already starting to ice up, and the same thing last year, even though last year was one of the warmest on record. This year, not even a bit of ice yet. Yikes.