Having a truly appalling memory is often a bad thing. Like, for instance, when it means I head off to cross an international border and forget to bring my passport (that mistake cost me nearly $300), or when I can't remember someone's name even after I've not only been introduced to them twice, but also had dinner at their house (seriously - total ( Read more... )

I just wrote my last US$ rent cheque. I don't want to say last ever, cause I may be back someday, but last for a while at least. Coincidentally, it was the last cheque left in my chequebook. So that worked out well ( Read more... )

So I'm in a really cranky, powderkeg type mood this morning, owing only partly to a really stupid near fight with Swmbo that makes no sense and yet still has me grinding my teeth and thinking about kicking stuff. And I was going to post about that, but first I read my flist and OMG. There is something in the air today. Maybe it's the sight of all ( Read more... )

It's finally happened. I have been blackmailed into watching Veronica Mars. A year's worth of enthusiastic endorsements from you lot couldn't do it. But my best and brightest R.A., without whom I would get no research done, finally laid down the law and said I had to start watching or she would stop working for me. I have a video tape with the ( Read more... )