The other day (by which I mean exactly two weeks ago) we were tagged by Laura at (not so) Urban Hennery for a meme about six random things. It was very exciting, as it is the first time our tiny new blog has been tagged by another blogger, and we were so overwhelmed that it has taken us a long time to get around to it, obviously, but here we are with six random things!

  1. We found a stray dog on Saturday, with no collar, running around on the road. We brought her home and are hanging onto her until we hear something. Any Bainbridge Island readers should see if she looks familiar. She is very sweet, and old and floppy, and we are calling her Penny (aka noob) because she is copper-colored. But while we like her, we already have two dogs, and a third was not really in the plans and presents all sorts of challenges.
  2. Our attention spans have been ruined by Netflix; we can’t make it through a whole movie anymore, but instead watch a lot of TV. Currently on rotation are Buffy (Season 6 for story arc continuity, but any random disc for general entertainment); King of the Hill; Six Feet Under (Season 2); Battlestar Galactica (Season 3); Veronica Mars (Season 1); and the X-Files (Season 1 — it’s so nostalgic!); and any random disc of Futurama, Deadwood, or Firefly.
  3. One of Garth’s co-workers was developing a new version of an internal software program. It was released recently, and one of the new features that this co-worker built into the software? Was Tetris. From scratch.
  4. We are big nerds: we met in graduate school, getting our library degrees, and ended up in related, yet non-library, fields. We both especially like metadata. Garth’s new favorite thing is The Electronic Scriptorium, a bunch of monks who do metadata consulting and are awesome. I just found, today, the E-MELD School of Best Practices in Digital Language Documentation, which is about how best to maintain metadata and data about preserving endangered languages. Super cool.
  5. For Christmas, I got Garth the Bacon of the Month Club from Grateful Palate. It’s So Awesome. He gets a pound of different delicious bacon each month. And I get to share!
  6. It is my understanding that many people enjoy sneezing, but I hate it. Right now I am very allergic to something (an extra dog? whatever delicious pollens they are bringing in? who knows) and I am sneezing like mad. I find it very unpleasant. And with that, I must go shower and find an allergy pill and try not to lose my mind.

We’re supposed to tag six other folks, but I have never been very good at continuing chain letters or tagging for memes, so, if you want to do this meme, you should. It’s surprisingly challenging to come up with anything approximating random. The mind wants to categorize. I struggled to make the stories not all about puppies, for example.

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