Cranial Meltdown Revived

I went to Yosemite over the weekend with a couple of friends. I have spent a lot of time at Yosemite in the past, doing geology. Two of my professors at San Jose State had a grant studying the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite in the park. (Feel free to ask me about the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite. […]

June’s birthstones include moonstone and pearls. Lava Jewelry has beautiful pearl and moonstone jewelry for those June birthdays. Because pearls are not a stone, and volumes and volumes could be written on pearls, I’m going to focus on moonstone today.

Moonstone is a form of a mineral called adularia, which is an orthoclase feldspar. (Was that […]

I have a new free spreadsheet (not specific to Etsy sellers) available for download now. It includes all sales information that a small e-business owner should need come tax time. Please note that it does not include all expenses information. I might possibly create an expenses spreadsheet for download at some point too. But for […]

The results of my poll show that I have a very diverse group of readers visiting my blog. The most interest seems to be in my features of Etsy shops. So for those people… I have another feature lined up for next Monday.
For those interested in metal, I plan to write about goldfill soon.
And for […]

My husband’s new product launched just yesterday, and I wanted to spread the word because I think that a lot of the people who read my blog would be interested in using it.
His company is called CellSpin. They’re offering FREE software that allows you to upload photos, video, or audio directly from your phone to […]

Today’s post is pure silliness. It’s something I thought of while I was drifting off to sleep last night, and probably doesn’t make any sense today.
This is my little test to help you determine how geeky you are, on a scale of 1 to 10.
Which tv series is each of these from? Give yourself one […]

There has been a lot of talk lately (well, complaints really) about mistagging on Etsy, which results in wonky categorization and frustrating searches. I believe that most mistagging is done by people who do not understand how to use tags according to Etsy’s rules. I propose this very simple way of reducing mistagging on Etsy. […]

Okay, I must be crazy.
I signed up at NaNoWriMo yesterday.
For those of you unfamiliar with NaNoWriMo, it stands for National Novel Writing Month. The challenge is to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November.
I have no clue what I’m going to write about, but I have about a week to brainstorm. […]

Here are more photos from the Yosemite trip I took with my brother…

Michael at our almost-perfect lunch spot

Our lunch spot; notice Half Dome in the distance

Olmstead Point with Half Dome in the distance, looking westward down Yosemite Valley

May Lake

Mount Hoffman

Scenic view from May Lake trail

Cathedral Peak

Cathedral Peak
Question of the Day: Did I include too many […]

I took a walk near my house the other day, and I took the following photo…

Doesn’t it look like an alien landscape?
I know what it is, but you do you? Post your guesses here.
I’m absolutely certain that there are people reading my blog who can tell you more about this than I can.