I will confess I didn’t know until just now that Buddy Roemer was running for president. I don’t know a whole lot about his politics, but he is clearly the GOP candidate with the best sense of humour.

Highlights from his tweets:Maybe I should've waited until *after* the Iowa caucus to say I would cut all ethanol subsidies. #corny ( Read more... )

8½. Turn refrigerator and freezer back on.

If you leave out step 8½, then you have to make sure you perform step 10, which is “come home a few days later to a fridge and freezer full of ruined food.”

Steps in cleaning freezer:

1. Pick a cold day
2. Turn cooling off on refrigerator and freezer.
3. Take food out of freezer. Put it on porch so it will stay frozen while you work.
4. Wait for gunk (mostly melted chocolate ice cream, I think) that pooled in the bottom of the freezer when door was left slightly open and food melted that one time, to melt. Help ( Read more... )

Well, OK, the photo itself is very mildly funny anyway, but the sign in the photo is only funny if you know Russian and are kind of geeky about it.

( photo of an “uninvited guest” found via lj.ru’s photoblog )

So some of you may remember that last summer, my darling plumtreeblossom wrote and directed a short one-act play for Festival@First 6. (I helped a bit with the play itself, and then was on the stage crew for the whole festival.) Juliet’s boyfriend Rich took and edited video (thank you, Rich!), and the play is finally up on YouTube! Yay! It had to be split in ( Read more... )

Sorry I haven’t been posting much lately! Life’s been really full and busy; I just haven’t been having much time to spend on LiveJournal. (I haven’t been reading my normal reading list, either, so I’ve probably missed what you’ve posted in the last few weeks.)

As usual, I’m loving plumtreeblossom lots and lots. There’s lots of wonderful stuff we’ve done lately ( Read more... )

Found via omegabeth:

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open the book to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the next few sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
• Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST

Michael Palin for President (video). A hockey mom, and a whole lot more. Thanks to samuraizergling, who posted the link as a comment on this post in mizarchivist’s journal (which you should also go read).

Thanks to larksdream for pointing me at Wikihistory, a very very short story by Desmond Warzel.

Kind of tired by the end of the workday. Need to pack for Arisia. Take T home. Stop on way to have dinner. Arrive in Quincy Center. Walk home from T station.

Where car?

Oh. Drove to T station in morning. Left car at T station.

Maybe now is time to walk back to T station.

The disturbing thing is that this is not the first time I’ve done