today's [virtual] fortune cookie message to me:

you've got what it takes, but it will take everything you've got!
daily numbers (pick3): 477

i just received a definite top ten of all time fortune cookie fortune (from an actual cookie):

"ignore previous cookie."

i'm trying to cut down on the number of open tabs i've left lying around my browser and so here's a thing i meant to post about ( Read more... )

delinquently, as usual:

so i was invited out to dinner for chinese new year's eve by friend m. and his wife who is chinese and had actually just returned from a trip to shanghai for work (and showed us some very neat photos including on days where the sky was filled with smog and days where the blue sky could be seen). we discussed the fact that ( Read more... )

that the winds were howling today.
vortex or otherwise, for hours on end they've been howling, gusting up to 60 mph.
i walked through quite a bit of it, some on the long walk from my parking garage to the football stadium, some on the return trip.

my fortune cookie for the day said that i can't change the direction of the wind, i can only set my

i occasionally check my online fortune cookie. not as often as i have in the past, but few things i did i do regularly now ( Read more... )

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