• 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'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... )

• Without getting into spoilers, and without joining the Haters' Brigade, I'll say that with the exception of the final five minutes the Lost finale was simply amazing. While some things were a bit perfunctory, there were far more things to cheer than anything else.
• And the music! The worst thing I could possibly say about the music was that there ( Read more... )

• The work surrounding the Great Housing Project is still slowed, but this week I finally got around to moving many of my books downstairs into the very nice bookcase on the foyer (previously filled with Scott's books, natch). Not only do I love reorganizing my books--I overhaul the organization schemes at least every year or two--but between the ( Read more... )

A week ago, sevencloud posted one of those memes where he would ask every commenter a question. He asked me for something I'm really excited for that's coming in the next six months ( Read more... )

• I'm pretty excited about this: I may have found a suitable replacement for my dear, dear hat, which is at this point rather far into the process of giving up the ghost. I've had it for almost five years--it is the lord of all hats and has been my friend through many dangers--but by now it's too tattered to go on much longer. Thankfully, I saw this ( Read more... )

• I've already posted about the big personal items in the past few days: I got a lot done around the house on Saturday (and more Sunday--I have a table in the dining room now, and I'm about ready to sweep through the kitchen & pantry before starting the upstairs); I also finished a CD for the first time in almost two years (I'm currently isolating ( Read more... )

Today, I:

• Washed my entire backload of laundry--two loads of colors, one load of whites.
• Moved a table in my living room from one corner to the blank wall where Scott's bookcase used to be and moved the green chair into the corner, opening up more space in the entrance from the foyer.
• Went through the last box from the dining room floor, pulled out ( Read more... )

• The one super-obvious thing is, of course, the US House's set of votes on health insurance reform last night. Even though the bills they passed (one of which, By the Beard of Zeus, still has to go back through the Senate, though there're still some good things that're happening regardless) aren't as progressive as they should've been, including a ( Read more... )

[Full Happiness post coming later in the day; I wanted to highlight this one ( Read more... )