Is anyone in touch with onetwomany or beingboring_? Neither has posted on LJ in quite a while, so I'm out of touch with them. As far as I can recall, neither lived near Melbourne, but I keep thinking of them as I hear news of the horrible fires in Australia. IIRC, onetwomany's husband was a police officer - he might have been called in to help, although I think they ( Read more... )

At this rate, I will not watch 100 movies this year! Last week I watched Long Way Round, which is sort of cheating on two levels - 1 because I've seen it before and 2 because it's a documentary, not a film. BUT, it's still freaking awesome, so I'm glad I watched it. I love Ewan McGregor even more from having seen him in this documentary. My ( Read more... )

I'm sick. Woe is me. I sometimes think "oh, I wish I could stay in bed all day", but if you actually do stay in bed a long time your body gets achey all over. Also, a hacking cough when you have phleghmy stuff to cough up may be bad but a DRY hacking cough is horrible ( Read more... )

Pistachio nuts. Snow. PowerPoint presentations. Diet A&W rootbeer. Youtubed episodes of Intervention ( Read more... )

If you want to know what it's like right now in my world, take a peek at the Patriots-Cardinals football game. Snow! Everywhere! A few weeks ago, I saw st_salieri's pictures of snow in Houston, and last week sdwolfpup's pictures of snow in San Diego, and I felt slightly indignant. Here I am in New England and we hadn't had any snow, and these Southern locales were ( Read more... )

"Two huge wildfires driven by strong Santa Ana winds burned into neighborhoods near Los Angeles on Monday, forcing frantic evacuations on smoke- and traffic-choked highways, destroying homes and causing at least two deaths."I hope everyone in the LA area (and beyond) is okay. I remember how widespread and frightening the fires were last year - I ( Read more... )

Having just looked at the projections for Ike, st_salieri and sandy_s, I am thinking about you guys and hoping that you and your loved ones are safe this weekend with Ike heading straight for Houston. And all other peeps in Houston and surrounding areas, please take precautions and be safe.

Wow, it's been 5 weeks since I posted. That was not my intention at all. In fact, June 22(?) was my fifth anniversary on LJ and I was going to do some sort of meaningful/funny walk down memory lane and instead I did... nothing. It's been a hectic summer for me - work is really busy. The weather here is intense, lots of thunder storms and very hot ( Read more... )

Between the bats mysteriously dying off (note, there is a close-up picture of a bat on that page which might creep you out if you don't like bats) and the salmon mysteriously dying off, I am getting worried. I guess I am prone to worry anyway. But what's up with these species disappearing? Somehow I think global warming must be to blame ( Read more... )