So, the world was supposed to end today. So far, doesn't look that way ( Read more... )

If the only thing that happened during Halloween was that people messing around with the occult messed around with the occult, then there would not be too much of a problem. After all, there’s only so much occult to go around, and generally the efforts of a bunch of confused amateurs only collide with each other. If a dozen people perform ( Read more... )

I hate going shopping near Christmas. I hate it because it's crowded. I hate it because it's about as far as you can get from jolly without involving drugs. And I hate it because every year, something ends up burning down, or blowing up.

This year they did both.

( I Don't Shop Near Christmas )

So I've been meaning to post something for a while, because I need to test this whole Dreamwidth->LJ sort of posting thing. And I thought, why don't I actually post something useful? After all, there are a whole bunch of things that people talk about without actually knowing something about that I may actually know something about, and that some ( Read more... )

It's Cinco de Mayo today. It's a reminder that I'm not back in San Diego ( Read more... )

Here is the Halloween recap, days late and dollars short, but hell, it's been busy over here.

In this one though I get entirely too full of myself. I think Charity will cut me down a notch or two sooner or later.

( And Halloween... )

I knew everything was going too well ( Read more... )

It's October. Fire season in San Diego. It's dry, it's hot, and the world feels like you're stepping into an oven, the kind of dry heat that you just don't get in some parts of the world, where even sweat vanishes into nothing before you can get under shade. In other words, it's a perfect time for fire ( Read more... )

Judging by yesterday's email exchange, I can conclude the following:

1) I really suspect that, protestations to the contrary, all of these emails are connected.
2) British Telecom is still not the brightest candle in the chandelier.
3) London really, really screwed up yesterday.
4) I am really glad I don't live in the Amazon.

( Included for your dubious viewing pleasure )

I'm somewhat bored, which means that it's time to seek attention by attempting to inflame my FL. I would like to think that I do this simply because I wish to enlighten everyone's day, or at least make it lighter, but secretly I think that I'm just an asshole ( Read more... )