I woke up this morning and took a cold shower. Not by choice. I'm at work, waiting for 8am so I can start calling plumbers. On one hand, I'm ticked off because the hot water heater was replaced when I moved in, just five years ago. On the other hand, I'm glad that when it was replaced a water shut-off was added. Go go no soaked carpets this time, ( Read more... )

My alarm went off at 5:30a, like it does on weekdays. I thought it looked a little bright outside for 5:30, so I peeked out the blinds and... the predicted snow had fallen ( Read more... )

So last Wednesday I placed an order with Dell for a refurbed XPS laptop, a laptop bag, and a laptop surge protector ( Read more... )

I did stained glass back in the 90s, when I had a garage. This is a new photo of one of the pieces I did back then.

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Y ahlo thar, Beefy French Onion soup with no beef listed in the ingredients but apparently it was hidden under 'flavoring'. Note to self: next time stalk Whole Foods for a beefless French Onion soup.

Well, at least my funked up digestive system isn't the result of food poisoning that I shared with my parents; they don't share my intolerance for

I'm too sad about this not to share it, sorry. (Copy/pasted from a post I made elsewhere.)

( This is sad! You've been warned. )

Sometime last week, I don't know when because I opened all my mail on Sunday, a letter arrived from my home owners association's executive committee. They unilaterally banned skate boards, roller skates, motor scooters and pretty much everything else that has wheels and isn't a car, motorcycle or bicycle, from the community ( Read more... )

Thanks for the birthday wishes, everyone! I wasn't online at all from about 11am yesterday til the same time today, so I just got most of them today. This is appropriate, because I'm about to head to my parents' house for my birthday lunch ( Read more... )

Dear Brain ( Read more... )

The left side of my jaw was aching a bit last week. No biggy, I figured it was just my sinuses being weird.

Saturday evening kaki4, her sister and I went out for Chinese and some of the fried rice was sort of on the crunchy side (but the lo mein was great) and... ow. Nope, not sinuses. There's definitely an unhappy tooth back there ( Read more... )