The cord for my laptop died last week. So I had to migrate over to Matt's computer to keep up with current events. That was annoying, because the couch is way more comfortable than Matt's computer chair, and I am lazy.

In web surfing news, Hunter at Daily Kos has finally explained why conservatives continue to talk about the "liberal media," as ( Read more... )

Ah, iTunes. you taunt me with your omniscience. "Kathy," I said, "I am lost," though I knew she was sleeping. "I'm empty and aching and I don't know why." And then Chris Smither, They don't tell you nothing you don't already know. They keep holding out the promise but they don't let go.I've got Matt watching the new Doctor Who. We're up to ( Read more... )

I spent at least an hour last night, balancing the US federal budget. The site warns that a surplus will create crankiness among the populace, but I've decided to use my $56-billion dollar surplus to pay down the US debt to China. I totally rock ( Read more... )

Just doing my usual random clicking on any link that says "Bush Sucks", and I found this George Will piece on Miers' nomination from the Washington Post. Now, I thought the WP was seriously pro-Bush; I don't know anything about Will. But I was totally blown away by this paragraph (emphasis mine):

It is important that Miers not be confirmed ( Read more... )

I just spent some time trimming my flist. I know I don't have nearly as many friends as some people, but there were people on there who hadn't posted in a while or whose interests had diverged from mine. I also left a lot of communities that I hadn't even bothered putting on any filter ( Read more... )

I'm in an odd mood today. I suppose it comes of being hormonal and reading Michael Connelly's The Poet, which, so far, is much better than the other novel of his I've read, Chasing The Dime. But it's about cops who have committed suicide, except that the suicide was staged and was really murder. It's lead me to read people's last words and ( Read more... )

I've been working a little bit the last couple days on a project for a former coworker. He's offered around forty dollars an hour for a PowerPoint presentation on software he's developed and will be hawking to laboratories. It's sooo fascinating. Anyway, assuming he pays up, I'll have made a couple hundred bucks, and my only cost is a couple ( Read more... )

OMG I just tweezed my brows for the first time. Ouch ( Read more... )

Holy shit. There is the mother of all thunderstorms raging over the Tampa Bay area at the moment. About an hour ago, lightning struck either my house or just to the side of it. The strike was enough to set of the house alarm and to report to the security monitoring company that there was a fire. The security company called to see if we needed a ( Read more... )