Today I ( Read more... )

+ The new washer has been installed. It's supposed to be more energy and water efficient, but it takes longer to do a load than the old standard. Whatever, I really appreciate not visiting the laundromat on a regular basis. The nearest one was pretty sketchy ( Read more... )

+ thesamefire, happy birthday! Give me a character or pairing and prompt, and I'll see what I can do for a birthday drabble.

+ Work is interfering with my ability to watch tennis again. Belated: vamos, Daveeed! Dear Chuck Culpepper, STFU and sit down, I WOULD RECOGNIZE HIM. OK, I am biased, but Daveeed is awesome. Because he's quiet and soft-spoken and ( Read more... )

Corporations are not persons, at least in Big Sky country.

(Thanks to J for the heads-up & link to the decision!)

Crossposted at http://asimplechord.dreamwidth.org/511366.html; comment as/where you wish.

Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media.

Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and ( Read more... )

I have opinions about the news that's in the headlines, but all I'm going to say is that I hope that everyone who lost a loved one on 9/11/01 or when the USS Cole or the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya were bombed feels some closure. I'd like to believe that this means we'll extract ourselves from the untenable, unsustainable military conflicts ( Read more... )

1. ( accidental holiday travel )

Deliberately not talking/thinking/posting about work. It'll make me too cranky. Instead, here. Have some random babbling and a few songs.

So, I've flailed all over the place (mostly twitter, but also here some, obvsly) about PStump and Discos, but I haven't really talked about Rise Against's new album, Endgame, even though it came out almost a ( Read more... )

Have y'all been watching the situation in Wisconsin ( Read more... )

1. I thought more than once about extending my visit to NYC when I got the NDP notice and then the pre-sale code for the Discos' show at the Bowery, but I seriously cannot spend that time off without consequences - the day and a half I'm taking are being made up by working MLK Jr Day and the thirteen hours I spent in lab on Tuesday. (As an aside, J ( Read more... )