• 01:14 Attaching the bones to the glove. I’m concerned that I might have to do this with it ON my hand. Bad, since the operation involves hot glue. #
• 01:34 Missing five finger bones. Cutting them out now. #
• 02:03 Finger bones cut, covered, painted and attached. Connected the forearm to the upper arm. I need to tweak her dress then I think I’m done. #
• 02:21 Unfair! Firefox crashed right before the end of, Illuminated Dragon, the story I’m listening to on PodCastle. #
• 02:43 Handstitching the finishing touches on the stone witch’s dress. #
• 02:54 Sanding the fabric on the belt sander to make it distressed. #
• 03:05 Yay! Finished with the stone witch.Ironically, listening to Goblin Lullaby by Jim Hines, which has a stone witch.tinyurl.com/5negks #
• 03:34 Finished cleaning up (mostly) and heading for home. #
• 04:27 Somehow, I’ve never come out of the shop as the bars were letting out. Scary women in scary heels and scary dresses. #
• 13:28 Obama “collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics.” I think this explains why so many SF folks like him. tinyurl.com/5nvfg9 #
• 13:42 When I spend a lot of time in the workshop, I lose track of time. It’s Sunday, right? #
• 17:27 Ég reyni að lesa íslenku. #
• 19:25 I’m cooking dinner and trying to decide what I can make without having to go shopping. Quinoa with lentils and tomatoes? #
• 22:25 I’m heading to bed early. Shocking, I know. #

There’s a tendency for people to focus on things that go wrong in their life, or the ways in which they’ve made a mistake. On balance though, we get more right than wrong, it’s just that a lot of the things we get right we take for granted. Or they are too small to feel like pointing out. Or we don’t want to be perceived as tooting our own horn.

Well, darn it, sometimes we have to do that because no one else will. So, I’m here to toot my own horn and encourage you to do the same. See that measuring cup of rice? The recipe called for a half-cup and I had the 1 cup scoop in my hand so I just eyeballed it. Then I thought, I wonder how close this is to right, so I poured it into the half cup. Behold. That is an excellent guess.

How about you? Tell us what you’ve done recently, even a small thing, that made you think, “Dang, I’m good.”

I just ran across this article that I clipped as part of the research that I was doing for “Waiting for Rain” about how China planned to halt rain for Olympics and it occurred to me that you might be interested in some of the other research behind the story.

Wines
Sula Vineyard “India’s leading producer of premium New World-style wines.”
The Wine Story of India
Grover Vineyard - at the foot of the Nandi Hills
Wines of India
Sommelier India
The Indian Wine Industry
Amarone
Wine…from India?
Also, I should probably admit that Rob wrote the initial wine descriptions for me.

Social
Indian Proverbs
Hindu Wedding ceremony
Notes on Hindu Wedding
Indian Student Slang (Pretty sure these are outdated by now.)
British Military Slang in India (Not used in this story, but maybe someday.)
Glossary of colloquialisms
Glossary of “Inglish” slang

Weather control
India Daily
Weather control Warfare
I also read a number of books on weather control, but I don’t have that bibliography anymore. Most of the weather control websites also came with instructions on how to build tinfoil hats.