So I made up for working a half day on MLK Day by taking Thursday morning off ( Read more... )

I've spent most of the weekend trying to be all guy-like and stuff. I went to Home Depot because I got a gift card for my birthday, and I managed to think of a few small assorted things I could use. One of the items was some of that window insulating plastic, because the recent cold snap reminded me of how drafty my crackerbox can be ( Read more... )

So what have I been doing lately? Not a lot. One of the side effects of not having a routine during the day (i.e. a job) is wanting to do less and less. Mostly I've been replaying Doom3, listening to Count Basie, and reading Graham Greene ( Read more... )

Last weekend was fun, this weekend somewhat less so. The middle of the week was the middle of the week.

( Roughly a week's worth of stuff, so it is longish and thus behind a cut. )

( Baseball been very very good to me. )

A bunch of stuff happened in the past few days, none of it super noteworthy. I rented and watched some of The Sopranos, which was cool. I rented and watched Heavy Metal 2000, which stank about as hard as anything I've seen in recent memory. I went to a couple very nice parties, but didn't really connect with people that much. I helped magicmarmot heft ( Read more... )

Finally, got the formal acknowledgment call from Kelly. New job starts on Monday, got the job number so I can get paid and all that. Three days to party and sluff off. I'm thinking I'll splurge on Amazon.

I left the novel I was reading for revdj's 25 In '05 thing at my parents' house. So I'm already way in the hole on that. I'm going to have to ( Read more... )

I lucked out and ran into Patguy at the Bryant-Lake Bowl last night. I had a couple and we talked about disappointing books and a possible second trip to Ireland, or a possible first trip to Iceland. We're both kind of fascinated with Iceland. The problem, besides no money, is that there aren't any other countries with one letter difference from ( Read more... )

The pickup seems to be handling the cold just fine. So I went to Improv-A-Go-Go, which amazed me by being completely sold out and completely hilarious. Also got to yuck it up a bit with Butch, Lauren, and Joe Ferrari at the Green Mill afterwards. This was cool, I've wanted to develop more points of contact with these guys. And I discussed Hatle ( Read more... )

Well, I found out the temp job at Amex has "fallen through." Maybe they went with someone else, maybe they were miffed that I couldn't get a resume to them instantaneously, maybe they just decided they could muddle through without a temp. I don't know. Back to square one again ( Read more... )