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So I'm probably going to France in 2017 with my family for a family history kind of trip, and my parents asked me to do the planning, I think partly so they don't have to and partly because they know I think it's fun. (Usually. You did great with England, guys! Thumbs up ( Read more... )

So I'm looking at Facebook, and I see that my 19-year-old niece has liked a tumblr-related page, and I think to myself, huh, I wonder - I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW ABORT ABORT ABORT.

Wisdom! It's useful.

One of the kids my office is buying gifts for this year wants books about animals, particularly whales. Animal books! Ask me how much time I've spent surfing Amazon looking for whale books appropriate for a nine-year-old. Go on, ask. (I did sadly decide that the one about a marine biologist studying bowhead whales was probably not a good way to ( Read more... )

1) I just bought a $20 borescope on Amazon, which I plan to use to look inside my wall to see if my guess that there were originally pocket doors on the entrances to my living room is correct. (I'm pretty sure that if there were, they're gone - at least from the one that I can access easily because, uh, the electrical outlet doesn't have a box, ( Read more... )

(I also have a sinus infection, but it didn't start until I had been home for twelve hours, so I'm going to go ahead and call that a win ( Read more... )

My heartrate was a full 25 bpm over its resting rate. At least I've got the trick of not letting my blood pressure go up ( Read more... )

I have two weddings to attend this month, back-to-back weekends. The first one is... sort of themed? But I'm calling it on the outfit I've currently got worked out (minus the decision of what to use for a waist sash pin, and maybe some new earrings if I'm feeling excitable ( Read more... )

1) I have Safety Dance stuck in my head. I can't make it stop. For the love of God, someone help me make it stop ( Read more... )

...I have now advanced to the point where Firefox gives me my desired homepage, but only as a secondary tab to a Yahoo search page. Every time I turn off my computer it gets back into my config file. INFURIATING. (Unfortunate download-related click - I was distracted. Got most of it out pretty quickly, but the damn homepage won't reset ( Read more... )