We now have our things! Of course, it didn't happen without a considerable amount of stress and activity. I received a call around 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Eastern, to let me know my things were coming on Friday. Previously, we had been told to expect a call from the driver two days before arrival, so we had not been prepared to receive them on ( Read more... )

I was going to make a post about my feelings regarding the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war yesterday. I have mixed emotions, but the most prevalent was that I was so surprised as to the length of time that it has gone on.

I never got around to writing it, and I may still, but something else pushed it out of my mind. I hate La Jolla. I attended ( Read more... )

I'm feeling somewhat better since the last post. I went to my chiropractor, whom I really enjoy talking to and my back is feeling more limber. I would call him one of my favorite people, if I didn't have to pay to see him. It just puts a whole new dimension on a person-to-person relationship when you're paying the other one for their services ( Read more... )

I've had it. I'm done with work. Emotionally kaput. Here's what I'm sick and tired of: switching offices every day and playing catch-up because I wasn't there the day before. I will admit that it is better than working a half-day in each place, because then I can sink my teeth into projects but even then it's not like you can complete all ( Read more... )

I was driving to work today behind this idiot in a truck who kept tapping his breaks in quick succession. I was irritated because you gauge your speed down a hill by the cars in front of you and by their break lights. But when some twerp is tap dancing on his breaks, you don't know what to do (certainly not emulate that behavior). Well, here's ( Read more... )

Yesterday, a couple co-workers and I went out to lunch and people were driving erratically and aggressively. It was enough to make one comment, “I wonder if it’s a full moon.” When we got back to work, a co-worker who did not come with us to lunch had heard about the bad drivers and made the same comment. For the record, it was not a full moon ( Read more... )

I was asked to be on the BBC "World Have Your Say" radio segment, but I responded minutes too late to be on the show. Poop.

So while I suffered this minor defeat, I found a forum on their website where some of the stupidest comments where being thrown around concerning the fires.

• We'll get aid and FEMA and Bush sooner than Katrina because we're " ( Read more... )

For fuck's sake people, drive with your windows up! Recycle the air, put A/C on, and keep the windows up. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeesh: you don't want to breathe this shit in. You can see the ash falling and there are more than six times the normal amounts of pollution in the air.

Honey Tangerines
Honey tangerines are delicious. Just peeling off their skin fills me with such anticipation because the smell is divine. Unlike most tangerines, they are actually sweet instead of sour. Only downside: seeds. But it forces you to go slow and savor the tangerine. Trivia: the word "tangerine" was originally an adjective meaning " ( Read more... )

My lips are burned. It was a Santa Ana day yesterday, resulting in sunburned lips and two nosebleeds. I wish I could say that everything else went swimmingly, but there was this one guy...

Jon has a friend who came to meet us in Disneyland a couple hours after we had arrived. Let me back up. Charlene, Jon's girlfriend, had wanted to go to ( Read more... )