OK, I need some advice. My allergies kicked in last week, which wasn't a surprise. In an attempt to survive them, I've been taking 24-hour Claritin--the kind with loratadine but not pseudoephedrine, because pseudoephedrine makes me seriously hyper. At first it seemed like it was helping, but the last couple days have been miserable. And ( Read more... )

I bought a car!... only it's in California. We went to the dealership this morning to see what they had, and there were two cars available: fire-engine red and medium blue. The red was... really, really red. And I'm not the red car type. The blue would have been fine, except it had a black interior, and there was no way I was having that in the ( Read more... )

I found a car! Well, OK, not a car, but we finally decided on a model... the Acura TSX. We were going to try to buy one tonight, but the sales guy we've been working with wasn't in, so we're doing it tomorrow instead. I'm hoping we'll be able to agree on terms.

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Things I forgot from last weekend:

Last Friday, I had lunch with splix and yaoichick at a nice French bistro. Artemis and I were facing the entrance; Alex was facing us. So we were sitting there, and a guy came in and walked up to the table nearest the entrance, and a guy at that table stood up, and they hugged... and then, I swear, the second guy wrapped his ( Read more... )

How have I not updated in over a week?!? Sorry.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY kingchiron and desdmona!!! -- just a little late. I hope you both had lovely days ( Read more... )

I finally made a curling icon. Well, two curling icons. Even though after this week I won't need them again for another four years.

Fabulous U.S.-Britain match today. The U.S. men are looking terrific. I only wish the U.S. women were doing as well, since it's their games that NBC insists on showing.

BTW, darthfox, Matt figured out the "Jeepers, ( Read more... )

Women's curling, U.S. v. Norway. The U.S. got off to a good start, but they had a bad fifth end and Norway tied. It's looking like the U.S. will get at least one in the sixth end, so that's something. Mostly I'm loving the Minnesota accent of one of the announcers ( Read more... )