I am at home (my parents' house) for the night on animal patrol while they go booze it up at a cabin in the woods with their friends and it is giving me an emotional BREAKDOWN ( Read more... )

This afternoon someone at the power station fucked up and turned off a quarter of Missoula for, like, eight minutes! It was CRAZY. I was sitting in the back room at work wrapping a Twilight boxset (ooh la la) when the power went out and it was PITCH black back there. I had to feel my way to the door to the front where everyone was standing at ( Read more... )

So we got our six inches of snow last night, and today the temperature dropped MAJOR and the wind has been CRAZY and it's about -15 degrees with the wind chill right now and supposed to get colder tomorrow. It is freeze your nostrils shut cold outside and it hurts to be out there for more than 30 seconds without COMPLETE coverage of all body parts ( Read more... )

I just sent a crew of my esteemed colleagues home after a late night of a little bit of whisky, a little bit of beer, and a two hour midnight, starlit cross country trek. God, sometimes I realize how much I take this place for granted, I can't even explain to you how beautiful it was tonight, up on the backside of the mountain with the whole ( Read more... )

I have been awake since FIVE THIRTY. That's not even really morning, you guys! I was awake for almost three hours before the sun came up. I had to drive my parents out to the airport so they could fly down to Orlando to visit my sister and bro-in-law for the weekend and then while my mom spends the week in business conferences, my dad's probably ( Read more... )

I totally just lost a ring chucking hay out for the ponies. The most ridiculous part of this story is that this is not the first time this has happened. Last time, I found it three weeks later, stamped into a little bit of metal by a fatass Norwegian Fjord. Son of a bitch.

*sigh*