Oysterband is apparently going to be at the Edmonton Folk Festival this year (insert whimpering about that lineup here), and unless a miracle occurs in the very near future, there's absolutely no way I can go-even if a second miracle of tickets suddenly becoming available were to occur. (That shadow that suddenly fell across your desk was caused ( Read more... )

It was a gorgeous day today, so what did I end up doing with it? Sleeping solidly from a little after 5 AM (hooray reflux!) until around 9:30 or so, when the cat started stomping on my head and chewing on my hand. (Better the hand than last weekend's stunt of chomping on my ear to make me get up and feed him.) Another half hour of broken sleep ( Read more... )

So far this morning I've managed to trip over something in the parking lot of my office, scuff up my brand-new dark rinse jeans, regale residents of the building with a long and loud string of profanity, and tear the crap out of both my right knee and my left palm. (Scraped up knee + brand new denim = oh holy f***, that hurts!) And that's before ( Read more... )

I'm annoyed that the majority of my XM presets are now either dead air or redirect to some pale imitation of the stations they were before. Lithium, in the time I've listened to it, sucks and I want Lucy back. Fred > First Wave. I didn't care much for listening to Billy Zero babble on XMU, but his playlists were good; the updated XMU isn't ( Read more... )

So I left the house at 1:15, thinking I'd go to the library to return/pick up some books and then go get a safety inspection for my car. An hour, tops, and then I'd have lots of time this afternoon to do other stuff I needed/wanted to get done ( Read more... )

Had time to stop for a gingerbread latte on the way to work this morning. Yay ( Read more... )

While I realize it's the height of arrogance to claim that the universe cares enough about me in particular to target me for anything, I have to admit that I'm really starting to feel picked on here.

STRESS LEVELS STILL V HIGH STOP SEND BEN & JERRY'S CREME BRULEE STOP NEED REAL VACATION STOP

(I even used a title this time, so y'all could be appropriately warned. )

Back in the office today, although I got in and checked email to find that my boss had given me today off to recover from last week's trip. Not that I could've taken it anyway, because I have stuff that has to be done today. I have 560 new email messages in my inbox to ( Read more... )

My 23:10 flight to DC has now become my 01:15 flight to DC for some weather-related reason, apparently. (My sources near Dulles, however, say "Buh? It's been really nice today, it's not raining.") My driving today has been for crap, and I've pulled a couple boneheaded manuevers that could've caused damage to my rental car and/or someone else, ( Read more... )