Every now and then I babble about and post links to things that 95% of you can't read and probably don't care about. It's that time again.

I remain the not-so-proud owner of a Region 2 PSP (I had a lot of disposable income at the time and I thought there'd eventually be games stop judging meeee), which has for most of its existence functioned as a ( Read more... )

For me, today marks the official beginning of the Christmas season. Once upon a pre-NaNoWriMo time, I used to assign the start-date to the day after Thanksgiving, but that little window between Turkey Day and December 1st is now its own mini-holiday: NaNo Panic Crunch Time. (We celebrate with expresso and foods that can be consumed with only the ( Read more... )

The current heat index here is 97°, and it's only going to get hotter. I am miserable, though not quite as miserable as I was jogging earlier this morning. I wish I understood why my "Hey, let's get in better shape!" urges tend to coincide with such inconvenient weather ( Read more... )

Abacus? No. Sigh. Why closed now ( Read more... )

I just liked this Internet not-really-a-cafe so much that I had to visit again. Actually, I just needed to send off a few more emails and pick up the new Katamari Damashii game (along the DS Mario game, 'cause, you know, Mario), so I decided to grab lunch and kick back for a bit while I was at it ( Read more... )

• Scrubbed the sink, half the counters, and the kitchen floor (even under the fridge).
  
• Investigated the merits of squeeze-bottle pizza sauce as emergency spaghetti sauce. Diagnosis: delicious!
  
• Topped off the "leftovers" box, which I can now mail on Tuesday.
  
• Filled two more trash bags. Where is it all coming from?
  
• Finished cleaning all but one closet ( Read more... )

Either I can have all the windows open, or I can be naked. My promixity to my neighbors precludes my having both ( Read more... )

I'm on what I expect to be the final box. This will make five heavy cardboard containers I have to ship this Saturday, and it's a very good thing my neighbor offered to drive me to the post office-- I don't know when the Board would get around to it (or if I'd even want to deal with what asking them for a hand would entail), and I don't see myself ( Read more... )

It's snowing right now. The furious, umbrella-slaying winds have managed to turn the flakes into what feel like millions of tiny water balloons being fired from slingshots. It's like hail and sleet had babies ( Read more... )

I'm not sure which is worse-- that Shouma of 1B belives himself fully entitled to throw things, talk loudly, wander around the room, and generally misbehave during class, or that the JTE does nothing about it except for occasionally asking him to sit back down. Yesterday Shouma and Shun were tossing a big eraser around and scurrying out of their ( Read more... )