No, Dino has not yet found a new job.  *sigh*  Every week he's been getting good interviews and we get hopeful, but then nothing comes of any of it, or he's told that he's not hired.  Today was phone interview with CompuDyne.  Tomorrow is PenAir ( Read more... )

I hate it when I get all my postcards nicely arranged in chronological order of when I bought or received them... and then I find a bunch that I missed or didn't even remember that I had.  *sigh ( Read more... )

Years and years ago, a friend and I together wrote a really riveting Digimon Adventure-Zero Two / Jurassic Park crossover.  Due to... I'll charitably say "creative differences"... we never finished it,  but we got pretty far along and to this day I think that it was some of the best writing I have ever done on any story.  It was scary, emotional, ( Read more... )

I guess 45 is a milestone, of some kind.  Sort of.

I'm celebrating with a headache and pancreas discomfort, apparently.  But I'll be damned if I don't go have the traditional birthday teppenyaki tomorrow night, I don't care if my damn pancreas falls right out!

I guess Almond Roca candy will always remind me of when I worked for PayLess Drugs.

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Along with souvenirs, both tasteful and incredibly tacky, my company distributes salmon products.  Salmon fillets.  Flaked salmon for making spreads.  Canned salmon and salmon in jars.  Yummie Chummy treats for dogs and cats (Cindie hates salmon, so none for her!).  And salmon jerky.  Which I had been wanting to try because I like salmon and the ( Read more... )

For the first time in my life, I'm paying attention to my fingernails. You see, I get squicky about things like cardboard and paper being scratched, and for many years I had jobs in receiving, stocking or inventory, which required me to interact with boxes alot. Rather than risk my fingermails accidentally scraping cardboard (eeeee! Just the ( Read more... )

I just got a spam email, which says it was sent by Tim Wheeler. Totally a coincidence, I'm sure, but Tim Wheeler was the name of the first boy I ever had a crush on. I want to say I was in 2nd grade, but it might have been 3rd. Anyway, I was very young, but I just adored Tim Wheeler, omg. He was ridiculously unobtainable, though, because he was ( Read more... )

Well, I've had it since the day it was released, but I think that issues have been worked out with it now, so I'm taking the plunge and installing the Ikea SP today! Wheee! If I'm feeling especially wild and confident, maybe I'll even install the latest patch, because I sure would like my Sims' TV and computer monitors to work again ( Read more... )

Today I am developing a cold. I've been sneezing like crazy and am all stuffed up and miserable. Taking lots of vitamins and such in an effort to hold it at bay, but can already feel myself losing the fight. My eyes have gotten hot and itchy just since I sat down to type this ( Read more... )