Today LP turned 14 months old. It started with LP being super cute while we played around in bed. We all got up. LP and I watched half an hour of Sesame Street (aka "Elmo. Elmo. Elmo. - he MUST have picked it up at daycare). Then we drew on paper with crayons while Skyping with my mother.

Then lordaerith, and I packed up the diaper bag and LP and headed ( Read more... )

Spent most of the evening setting up the books on the book shelves. There are still some boxes left (mostly school books and gaming) and a few books that I need to fold into what's up there (as well as some that seem to be missing). Still, it's coming along:


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Since all of my books are still in boxes, recently started reading an online version of Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. This is a passage from the end of Chapter 7 that really struck a cord and made me smile.

If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly ( Read more... )

Had a really great weekend.

Saturday lordaerith and I went with some friends down to New Braunfels to float the river. We did the River Sports Tubes "Long Float". It was a ton of fun! I just wish that the HEBs close to where our group had their meeting spot had had Strongbow in a can (no glass on the river). Just a fun, silly time on the river with friends ( Read more... )

I started my new job on Tuesday. I like it so far. I've mostly been doing getting settled into a new job stuff (ie: meeting a million people whose names I've already forgotten, setting up my computer and work email, and catching up to speed on the projects I'm going to be working on). Being an iSchool grad, I already knew about ¼ of the people who ( Read more... )

I just got back from the Library. I checked out 2 book each for 4 different authors. That's 8 books total. The second and third book of the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud, both books of the Trickster's Duologoy by Tamora Pierce, Sense and Sensibility and Emma by Jane Austen, and Dune Messiah and Children of Dune by Frank Herbert ( Read more... )

Washer SagaOn Tuesday morning I called Sears because the part had come in from them and I wanted to return it ( Read more... )

This morning I woke up and was very dizzy. Took me a while to realize that I had woken up with low blood-sugar, which is NOT normal for me. Drank some juice, ate some cereal, and still didn't feel 100% there. At more throughout the day. Eventually felt 100% after egg & cheese on a bagel and a bit later some miso soup. Back to not feeling 100 ( Read more... )

Recently I read Spindle's End and the Golden Compass. In the former large bodies of water/swimming/fish are bad b/c of the way that magic flows through them (you find this out at the beginning of the book). In the latter there's a part where a dæmon becomes a dolphin and swims in the water. When that happened I freaked out for a moment because I ( Read more... )

HBO to turn Fire and Ice into a series - According to Variety, and other sources, HBO has the rights to turn George RR Martin's series into a tv series. Each book will be converted into a season ( Read more... )