I have a new addition to my household. :) She's adorable, fuzzy and named Carmen. I apologize for links instead of embedded pictures, but I have to get ready for work, and time that would have been spent resizing the pictures for LJ friendly viewing was spent fixing upload paths in my gallery install because Dreamhost moved my server and I hadn't ( Read more... )

I am in lust.

I remember the first version of Das Keyboard that was $80. Mechanical switches and no markings to eventually wear off, a computer geek's wet dream. I wanted that version of Das Keyboard, even though I knew $80 was more than one really should be paying for a keyboard. Now the price is $129, and they offer a pansy version with markings ( Read more... )

My perception of reality doesn't usually intersect with everyone else's very well. I have a hard time knowing where my paranoia ends, and my justified worries start. I also have a hard time realizing when I'm missing important details I really really should be paying attention. I read things into situations that aren't there, I dismiss things as ( Read more... )

So, I found my dragon ring. I guess it'd been in a pants pocket, as I found it in the bottom of the washing machine when I was transferring clothes from the washer to the dryer. Horray for finding my missing ring. The ring I bought to replace it, it's still missing in action, but since I liked the dragon ring more, I'm glad that's the one I found.
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Something wrong w/ LAN & my computer can't get online. Unsure when it'll be working again. Suspect hardware issue, but I don't have access to troubleshoot.

It feels so gorram empty here now. I just finished packing away most everything I own into the one room I have that isn't getting its carpet replaced. Now I just get to hurry up and wait for my landlord to get the carpet people out here. Jackass has not bothered to let us know what the plan is, even though we told him that he needed to do this on ( Read more... )

We had further flooding last night, even though the plumber from the night before insisted that he'd stabilized the problem. My mother got on our landlord and is hopefully getting him to get a clue and fix this, but who knows. Today we had professional damage control people come out and look at the mess, estimate what it'll involve to fix. They ( Read more... )

Babyland was awesome as usual on Saturday night. The supporting acts, with the exception of one, weren't bad either, which is pretty good for a show at the Gilman, where I usually don't know any of the other bands. Got home late Saturday night, slept for too short of a time and had to go into work. Managed to forget my cell phone, and had a decent ( Read more... )

So, I'm a lovely paranoid person. I sleep with a knife tied to the bedpost of my bed closest to my head. I have a 3 D-cell maglite that's also in reach. My cell phone sits on my nightstand, always charged up and ready for battle. If I had the money to spend, there would be multiple disaster emergency kits hidden in various locations (car, home, ( Read more... )

So I've taken to wearing ear plugs when I sleep because my new neighbors gave the bedroom above my head to whichever family member finds it okay to blast crappy ghetto rap or TV almost all hours of the day.

Also, I didn't get a full night's sleep last night because of the crappy book that I'd gotten an advanced readers edition of from Wondercon ( ( Read more... )