So it's been over a year since I've updated. In the meantime I got married and continue to work for Columbia, with a slight move to Queens. And how are you ( Read more... )

Over half a year since an update (though I comment here and there). The quick update ( Read more... )

Goodbye, gblake, you will be missed more than you could have known. Our community is diminished by your passing. There are no words.

My grandmother's furniture finally arrived yesterday, so I now have a nice bed to sleep on, and drawers to put things away in.

Now that's some fine quality sleep there.

Good: Breyer's Fruit on the Bottom Yogurt
Bad: Breyer's Fruit on the Bottom of your pocket Yogurt

I realized that livejournal is like my Usenet substitute, but it's all made of alt groups about specific people. Like alt.religion.kibology.

Another way to tell I'm getting older:
Classic Rock now includes the Talking Heads (Wild, Wild Life)
Oldies now includes Moody Blues (Nights in White Satin)

So it seems my mutant powers are coming in. Last week's workout, I increased my upper body workout by over 50% from the previous week. My biceps/triceps went to 3x12 @ 30lbs to 3x12 @ 50 lbs. Today I also noticed that I shouldn't wear my pants without a belt anymore. I had a hard time keeping them up without so much gut. Weight is about the same as ( Read more... )

We had a magnitude 2.6 earthquake in northern New Jersey. Usually we have one about every year to year and a half in the New Jersey/New York City area. Read about it in the Star Ledger .

Lamont-Doherty building in Palisades evacuated

The acid leak in my building was about 30 feet from my room, though I never smelled anything and walked out the nearest door which was away from the leak. The talk on the scene was that it was hydrofluoric and perchloric acids.

Also read about the earthquake in the Daily Record.