• I'll soon have some actual health insurance. Due to bad scheduling I couldn't send my first payment in time to have the policy start in November, but at this point it'll only be another two and a half weeks.
• Yesterday's big project was painting Scott's old bedroom with Vonda and neurosophy. It was a prelude to Vonda moving in (sometime this winter) and one ( Read more... )

• I entered my 26th year of life last Wednesday; besides the traditional dinner out with the family, I was treated to other dinners by other people and astute_reason saw fit to get me more Giants paraphernalia. It's been a nice birthday week.
• I have imbibed my first egg nog of the season. This is always a high point of the winter.
• Lost: The Last Episodes, hopefully ( Read more... )

Last weekend Vonda and I resurrected our Wardrobe Upgrade Tour; while the first tour last spring left me in good stead all summer, this time we needed to find me some warmer clothes. I also wanted something I could more reasonably wear to work than the casual clothes I got in June. (Typically nobody cares about how we're dressed and people wear all ( Read more... )

• I've been living in this house for six years. This morning, for the first time in that span, I was finally able to take a shower in my own home without making it rain in my kitchen. While I'll not be visiting my mom every other day to use her shower, this way is far more convenient.
• I'm a Giants fan through and through, but it's times like this that ( Read more... )

This is one of the most awesome videos I have ever seen online:

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• A week and a half ago neurosophy decided to use one of the spare bedrooms in my house, a proposition which has been going well so far. It's also spurred me into a little bit of activity: I finally got around to cleaning up my bedroom, arranging to trash some furniture I've been meaning to get rid of since Scott left and a few smaller decluttering projects. ( ( Read more... )

• Wednesday was a good day.
• This Week in Things That Could Only Have Been Brought to you by the Internet (thank you, Bill Kurtis, for the internet): a Very Personal Meeting between Old Spice Man, Feminist Hulk...and Judith Butler.
• Ultraviolet light saves the day yet again.
• I always feel more civilized around the house after vacuuming (the downstairs, at ( Read more... )

• The best political news of the past couple weeks is obviously the striking down of Prop 8; hopefully the decision is upheld. The whole situation with Prop Hate should serve as a warning against putting the rights of minorities to a majority vote.
• Lost fans, catch the leaked epilogue from the season six DVD before it's taken down. After all this time ( Read more... )

• I had a big weekend of hanging out with people I don't usually see much. On Saturday Corinne, Pilar and I caught a movie (The Sorcerer's Apprentice...not my idea) before having a delightful lunch. On Sunday I headed up to a gaming day Lexi & Randy were having, with a bunch of board games I'd never heard of before (Carcassonne, Settlers of Catan, ( Read more... )

• Spoiler-free review: Inception was really, really cool.
• As spied in the surprisingly creepy trailer for The Social Network that played before Inception, here's the Scala & Kolacny Brothers choral version of "Creep."
• What would you do if an odd little bird toy (or decoration, or something) landed on your doorstep and you knew neither where it came ( Read more... )