'I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.'

-J.R.R. Tolkien
Returned from Niagara Falls on Monday and immediately had to zip off to the doctor's appointment. It's sort of sad to contemplate but this is the first trip I think we've had as a full family since I was perhaps 8 or so, even if there were a hoard of new rugrats ( Read more... )

On the plus side, it looks like I won't have to go to the airport.


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In the end, it took the flight out of the Akron/Canton airport took around 3 hours longer than expected. They weren't able to find an earlier window and so the plane didn't end up boarding until almost 8pm. Add to that the fact that the flight, which was supposed to only take a hour ended up also being held up a bit due to the storm with various ( Read more... )

Well, today is the last day of my trip to Ohio. Well, maybe. My flight out to Laguardia airport was supposed to take off in 35 minutes but it seems that there's been a substantial delay. There's apparently a lot of rain storms in the NYC area right now and the revised flight time isn't until 7:30. That means I have another 3 hours here with nothing ( Read more... )

So I'm currently in Ohio and staying with Chelle and Todd. I caught an early flight this morning and landed here a bit after 9. I actually wasn't able to fly out of Newark like I normally do because the prices for flights were ridiculous. When I checked a couple weeks ago, Continental wanted over $400 for the flight. I was forced to look for other ( Read more... )

I think I've mentioned before that I tend to do things in streaks. It's always been a part of my nature that I don't seem to do anything in moderation, though what I'm doing at any particular time seems to shift about. It's that reason I've never tried to play any MMORPG or any computer game that requires a monthly fee. I can almost guarantee that ( Read more... )

My mom was telling me the other night that there's a chance Connie will have to go to Japan for a week sometime in the next couple months. She's been struggling to find projects to get in on, a lot of her work having been disrupted and piecemeal thanks to the dual maternity leaves. While having to go to Japan would be a downside for her, seeing as ( Read more... )

Well, not really. These are just things that I need to do within the next couple of weeks rather than before I die. Frankly, I'm not sure there are really all that many things I would want to do before I die short of taking some of my enemies to hell with me.

Anyway, back to the list:

• Rent a car for the trip to Chicago: Done and done. I got ( Read more... )

I just booked my hotel on Priceline for the Chicago portion of the gencon trip in August. I'm pretty fricking happy about it too since I was able to use a $50 bonus cash offer that I got from Twitter a few days ago. They were trying to recruit followers and promised that the first 5,000 people who 'friended' them would get a $50 discount. I didn't ( Read more... )

Rap, tap, taping out a drumbeat of pain. It looks like things have continued to be sort of sucky with the pain management issues since getting back. I really need to find some way to get ahead of this problem but I'm worried about popping too much and crossing the line into nausea. Hopefully it'll all fix itself once I work myself back into a ( Read more... )