Got the stocking-up shopping done. Managed to restrain myself in Costco. One thing I've been meaning to do forever that is now highly cromulent is the Spreadsheet Of Prices. Very shortly per unit price is going to be as great or greater consideration than total price. I was staring at cheese today wondering if I should have waited to get it at ( Read more... )

I will never stop being delighted that I can have a baked potato in 6 minutes without having to turn on the oven. It almost makes up for Maruchan having discontinued my favorite flavor of ramen.

Apparently I got the nitpicky hardass eport advisor. [sigh] I have a bad feeling about this ( Read more... )

We're supposed to be getting new windows in my apartment this week. They were supposed to do the second floor last week, but I know they're behind due to rain. Anyway, I'm freaked out about the cats, with all those people in and out. I put a big note on the door saying they have to keep it shut due to cats. Hopefully I'll be here when they do ( Read more... )

Car did not get dealt with today because lack of sleep (thanks, brain. Thanks, cats) meant I didn't get the City of Santa Monica application done until after [the same time I arrived at the DMV yesterday ( Read more... )

Something that's bugging me: droids generally have nicknames. R2-D2? Artoo. C3-PO? Threepio. K2-SO? Kaytoo. BB-8? BB-8 ( Read more... )

I will not being doing a 2016 year in review, because it was an incredibly shitty year both personally and globally, and I don't want to give it a single thought longer (except on the 14th I will have to because Alan and may possibly drink myself to death, and my birthday because Carrie if I survive this month ( Read more... )

A thread on a Disney group I'm part of on FB reminded me of this, so I thought I'd share.

The assistant principal at our high school almost sent the jazz and concert bands home on a dress code violation for wearing In-N-Out t-shirts after a trip because she didn't know it was a real place and thought it was innuendo.

bear in mind this was 20- ( Read more... )

Pretty much every D&D session I wail "why do I have so many d6's?!" I have remembered why - timted was at one point threatening to run a WEG Star Wars game, which, being d6 based, requires a LOT of d6's in at least two different colors ( Read more... )

Oh, man, I have fallen back down the endless hole of the rpg.net fora. I should really move off Tabletop Open over to the DD/D20 forum, given my current gaming landscape, but now I'm all excited again about wanting to play Nobilis and Exalted and The One Ring someday ( Read more... )