We're gearing up for the big road trip to California. I had the brilliant idea of loading up a couple of mp3 players with our individual (and never-intersecting) music choices -- if I learned one lesson from the first trip, it's that fifteen CDs, which seem like plenty while you're packing, become tedious and repetitious surprisingly quickly on a ( Read more... )

Weekend One P.B. (post break-in), and I'm slowly picking up the pieces. I returned to work at the hospital this weekend with a fair amount of confidence, not because I wasn't nervous (although I do refuse to live in fear), but because Tery feels badly enough about me having to replace my window that she's agreed to let me quit if it happens again ( Read more... )

My car got broken into last night at work ( Read more... )

I have succumbed at last to Apple's belligerently youth-oriented marketing machine. I have bought my first iPod. Not just any iPod, but the Nano, the sexiest, sleekest, hottest incarnation of portable audio equipment ever known to man ( Read more... )

Boring Administrative PostLast night I finished the last of Buffy S7. Now my future is a little grayer and less exciting with no more new eps to look forward to ever. But at least I can stop worrying about spoilers popping out at me from around every corner. My friend Bear sent me a sweet and hilarious Hallmark sympathy e-card ( Read more... )