So the Lovely Liz and I headed down to FL to visit the wonderful masdoc and diadem8 and their adorable daughters. We both had a great time and Liz is now firm friends with two of my oldest and dearest friends, which is awesome. Plus, there are now more pictures of Liz and I together (on facebook), which can only be a good thing, since Liz's loveliness distracts ( Read more... )

Day 17 is Villain, and I kinda want to pick Mitt Romney, so I'm going talk about politics, and give the answer in another post. At last week's debate, Gov. Romney noted that he was going eliminate funding for PBS as a way of closing the deficit. PBS gets $444 million a year in funding, which sounds like a lot, but is in fact, .02% of the deficit. ( Read more... )

5. Childhood memory ( Read more... )

I wonder if it's coincidence that I'm rereading C.S. Lewis as my dad's (and my niece's and my goddaughter's) birthday rolls around. (No, not A Grief Observed; I'm rereading the Space Trilogy.) I dunno. I mean, I just picked it up because I found them again after buying more bookshelves and reordering my books. (I have ~850 books, which is ( Read more... )

Seven weeks into Weight Watchers and I'm down 15 lbs. Awesome, no? Of course, I still have 50 to go to get to my goal weight, but I can't get through the last 50 until I get through the first 15. Progress is being made.

So I've been trying to tell myself I'm not fat while at the same time telling everyone else in the world that I am.
( Beware of terrible sentences and utterly horrific metaphors. )

So I was going to write a long, philosophical post for my birthday, as I often do, and then I decided, fuck it, I don't need the hassle. Happy birthday to me; I am 40 years old today. At some point today, to prove my manly vigor, I will do a pushup. And at some point in the near future, as in the recent past, I'm going to go drink a hell of a lot ( Read more... )

So I wanted to start the new year by posting every day, but a sudden attack of the Martian Death Flu put the kibosh on that. I'm creeping back toward coherence, though, so I can at least do an "I hope I feel better" post before going to bed tonight. My plans for the weekend are to hide indoors until the last of the crud passes and home I'm back ( Read more... )

A little late with the Happy New Year wishes, I suppose, but here they are anyway. Happy New Year everyone! Hope your 2011 is better than your 2010 was, but not as good as your 2012 will be. As for me, looking back makes it seem like 2010 was a pretty shitty year, but I'm not sure why. Living through it didn't seem too awful, other than losing ( Read more... )

I'd like to be able to say that I took my fandom to new levels of dorkdom on Sunday, but I don't think I can. I think the 80 hours of (free) work I put in on the Annals Kelsonus Nuptis Regni back in 2002 still remains my high water mark of dorky fandom. That said, I did get to do dorky fannish things on Sunday, as I was a Tower Guard for Brandon ( Read more... )