As much as I can, anyway. Managed to escape babysitting Friday, because I had a show Saturday no one wanted me loading the van while stepping over kids at 5am. But didn't sleep well, and got up early for the show. Seems Annapolis has changed quite a bit in the last 6 years or so - it looked nothing like it did the last time I was there. Tons of new ( Read more... )

For this afternoon's entertainment, I get to babysit my printer. As it has to print a 2100 page document. That is not a misprint. And the attorney who told me to do it didn't bother to see if we have the paper or the toner for it before ordering me to do it. Emergency Staples run. Still on the first third and already the printer is struggling, it's ( Read more... )

It was supposed to hit 103 today. Dunno if it did, but it sure felt like it. I went to the gym and the car's AC struggled to keep the temperature down to 104 in the car. It was so hot I went and bought a snowball. Haven't had one of those in 2-3 years, but dang it was good. (Blackberry, no marshmallow.) Otherwise haven't left the house...gave CJ a ( Read more... )

After working out, I took Mom shopping all afternoon, getting her fully refreshed and reloaded on everything. Oh yeah, and a LOT of groceries, although we somehow managed to miss both the drink & pharmacy aisles. Confusing layout. Also refilled on dog food, where we met a litter of beagle mixes. Seems some arse dumped a pregnant beagle on a rescue ( Read more... )

With me not doing a whole lot. I did go to the Y and swim for pretty much the first time in 8 years. I expect I'll be in a lot of pain tomorrow. Felt good at the time though. Finally finished cleaning all the duplicate files out my ITunes drive, something I've been working on since February or so. Now I get to add the music I acquired since then ( Read more... )

I didn't get a chance to watch last week's Supernatural before I went to Farpoint, and I went to the panel for the show anyway, spoilers be damned. As it turned out, the spoilers were helpful. ( These are spoilers. )

The one good thing about the awning coming down - it's the only thing here that really could come down. The roof is pitched, and everything else around here has 4 points of support. We need that, because Mom dug a small pit in an attempt to get Roxie to do her business. Within an hour it was completely gone. I had to dig a new one so CJ could do ( Read more... )

Still coming down. And it took until a few minutes ago to get CJ to poop or Roxie to leave the porch, at all. The good thing is I discovered TCM has some beauts on today - which may derail my plans to get cracking on Spooks, but can't really complain either. Just finished 'The Magnificent Seven', which I'd never seen. 'The Great Escape' is on at 5 ( Read more... )

Re the check forging: We finally got new checks this morning, after raising a full ruckus with the bank over the matter. So today, we finally got paid (with a little extra for the lateness). No word yet from the FBI on whether they'll take the case.

The good ol' federal government, they'll bail out anybody - except Lehman Bros. I'll bet those folks ( Read more... )

I finally just saw the first two episodes of 'Spooks'/'MI-5' season five. OK, so I'm more than a year behind, sue me. And I'm quite distraught about Colin. But point being ( Read more... )