Things I have learned today:

1. Key maps are a Houston-area thing, so of course there are none for Nashville.
2. Furniture dollies are not that easy to find at the Home Depot, but they're there.
3. Russian potato salad is tasty.
4. This song is difficult it get out of my head.

1. Talked to the leasing office
2. Talked to insurance agent
3. Signed a bunch of stuff
4. Played with RoR a bit
5. Sent it off

There's this list from the Guardian, something about the supposed top 50 film adaptations. And there's the start of a meme around it, marking for each whether you've seen or read it. I find myself unable to resist.

Let's see, bold for seen and italic for read.

1. 1984
2. Alice in Wonderland
3. American Psycho
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's
5. Brighton ( Read more... )

Another trip has passed, and I'm feeling a little drained right now, so an overview:

• No problems with the airport because I enforced a very large margin for error. This meant I felt rushed at home and forgot a few things (unimportant things).
• The return flight sucked. I hate flying. I don't like doing it. I keep telling myself not to do it ( Read more... )

For part of the drive home from work, I followed a Bud Light van that advertised (among other things) "beeresponsible.com". The obvious and intended meaning flashed through my mind pretty quickly, accompanied by a thought something like "cute", but then my mind wandered on to other, similar things:

• bee responsible?
• be e-responsible?
• be ( Read more... )

I see the Scattered Pages fairly often, what with them being a local band and all. And probably inspired in part by Hugh MacLeod, I carry around blank business cards in my wallet and draw little sketches on them from time to time. The two come together in that I make something to give to Brandon at almost every show I attend. A few weeks ago, ( Read more... )

Hilleboe had called them to attention and was dutifully telling them what a good commander I was going to be; that I'd been in the war from the beginning, and if they inteded to survive through their enlistment they had better follow my example. She didn't mention that I was a mediocre soldier with a talent for getting missed. Nor that I'd ( Read more... )

Some of the items I have in my freezer:

• grapes, to be eaten directly from the freezer
• peas, also to be eaten directly from the freezer
• Quorn "chicken nuggets". It's not quite vat-grown meat, but I was intrigued enough to try. Mmm, fungus. Science is good.
• Moose Tracks ice cream
• A special ice cream bowl

Last night I forgot to go to the Scattered ( Read more... )

To accurately describe the way I feel right now, it helps to know what I just left ( Read more... )

So there's this meme thing about the dorkitude, you see. And I was tagged - not once, but twice. Normally, I'd want to find a good way to write about something deep and meaningful (or at least with some semblance of it) and then slap the meme at the end, but oh, I'm not feeling it. Instead, I will just do as I was told by nefas and mendel.

So, five reasons ( Read more... )