+  I am earwormed by Frank Turner's "Balthazar, Impresario".  There are worse songs for it, I suppose ( Read more... )

~  I got up at a ridiculous hour this morning to see how working out in the morning would go, in terms of scheduling.  Need time to get up, grab breakfast, tame the psycho hair, etc., before catching an earlier train.  It went fine, so I'll probably do that a couple times a week rather than going to the gym after work.

+  I keep going back to this ( Read more... )

Over the weekend, why_me_why_not pointed out that HBO was free, so I tuned in for the premier of season 5 of True Blood.  I'm actually kind of sorry I did:  it was heinous.  The storylines made no sense and didn't really seem consistent with the characters, even as divergent as they are in the show from the book's canon.  (Which is to say, the TV series has only ( Read more... )

Okay, I really need to see the script for Battleship, because I refuse to believe "stay frosty" was included in Cmdr Stone Hopper's (ASkars') original moto speech to his destroyer crew. It was LOL-worthy.

There were gapping plot holes and silly science and an utter waste of the hotness of ASkars' biceps.  But there was also a lot of shiny!pretty, ( Read more... )

Several years ago, I was outside all day at a street festival and needed a hat. I never have a hat when I need one. Of course, the reason is that I look like a complete dork in a hat. But still, sometimes one must have a hat, or suffer from sunstroke. The choices were limited, and I ended up spending $10 on this blue hat that I figured I would ( Read more... )

I've mentioned before that my kitchen is not particularly well-equipped. This does not distress me. But I still oooh and aaah over kitchen accessories, like this selection of butter yellow gadgets featured by Metrocurean.


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