Yesterday, our van passed the smog test ( Read more... )

http://www.kcra.com/news/13217887/detail.htmlOakland, Calif. -- A portion of the roadway on Interstate 80 at Interstate 580 near Emeryville in the East Bay has been destroyed after an explosion early Sunday morning ( Read more... )

Discussions at ozarque's journal. Some of my f'list reads her regularly, so they probably don't need the update, but some of you don't, and this is... really interesting.

A few days ago, she posted a Recommended link: Caretaking" post suggesting people read an article about Why Working Women Are Stuck in the 1950s'. 90 comments and counting... and the ( Read more... )

They're interrupting House to tell me that Gerald Ford died. 93-year-old ex-presidents dying is not earth-shattering news, and should not interrupt my favorite snark-fest unless explosions were involved ( Read more... )

Just now. Wow. Probably about like the last two. Shorter than the roller last night, but felt like about the same intensity. That was tagged at 3.7. This one was 3.5 maybe ( Read more... )

Been busy. Busy at work, busy on weekends. Debating if I've got the energy for pagan discussion forums. Debating what prep for P'Con I've got time & energy for, other than the Discordian ritual. Yegods I'm tired ( Read more... )

Well, maybe tryptophan is not ur frend. But it certainly pretends to be... sneaks up on you, makes you tired and braindead. Tryptophan says ( Read more... )

The movie request tonight was "mildly deep, somewhat comedic, romantic around the edges, with tech."

But not Phantom of the Paradise or Bladerunner or Matrix Reloaded; wrong kind of tech.

Ghostbusters it is.

Word has decided, just this morning, that instead of autocorrecting -- to - it will autocorrect it to a BOX... one of those stupid "this character doesn't exist in this font" boxes. I could still copy & paste previous emdashes, but I couldn't create new ones, not even with alt-0151; I just got the box again ( Read more... )

Irish dancing at the Starry Plough tonight, with Phoenix, and probably invicti_solis and eldriwolf. New boots to kill my feet break in.

Wheee!

I expect to come home happy, exhausted, and screaming in pain for the next three days.