I'm better now than I was a few days ago. Found some distractions. A nice birthday party, a marathon of silly movies, the MCBA Fallcon, puzzles from some 20+ year old Games magazines I scrounged, and rotisserie chicken from Cub Foods. Oh, Cub Foods, how your chicken has saved my bacon. Not having to cook for three days was such a boon ( Read more... )

Too many things have been going on. The Fringe Festival took up most of my July and early August, then work kind of exploded. Now I'm resuming classes at the Brave New Workshop, and I've committed to taking Spanish through work (it's something I've thought about for years, and a benefit of working at a school is that I am able to take classes ( Read more... )

I got a couple little surprises yesterday, one good, one not so good.

Adrienne had an opportunity to go see the Minnesota Opera's dress rehearsal of Faust, and since someone needed to watch the kids, jm_engshaw couldn't go. So did I want to go? Sure! I had seen a couple small, very light operas as a kid. Touring company stuff that, for whatever mysterious ( Read more... )

Two and a half hour drive back home tonight, which wasn't deathly unbearable only because the boss let us go early. A boss that understands extenuating circumstances, like snowstorms. That's still hard for me to grasp ( Read more... )

I've spent most of my recent free time working on a jigsaw puzzle, an early Christmas present I got. I know I know, I don't get it either. Being quasi-snowbound is partially a factor. The only surface I have large enough for the darn thing is the floor, so I've been on my hands and knees long enough to kink up my back a good one ( Read more... )