Alyssa and I have been "together" for nine years. We discovered our mutual interests in Indian food during the first few months.

Sunday, August 15th, 2010: I finally make a dal that we both like.

Now I can make dal for both of us for dinner.

I am super excited by this.

How about we get rid of voting altogether and decide each ballot issue by direct donation of dollars to the governing body for.

(Admittedly, that's just snide.)

Representative government depresses me. Autarchies may not be in vogue, but they do a better job of achieving their ideals than many other forms.

Does anyone plan to attend the party at First Ave this Friday night?

I spent about two hours at work yesterday believing that I had (personally) invalidated all of our data for the last three years.

I did not care for the experience.

Work has been extremely busy this week, sometimes so much that I can't really think or talk to anyone. I'm scrambling to do things we can barely do until the software improves, and there is a bunch of anxiety in everyone involved (except the exec & sales staff, who, if anything, ooze confidence ( Read more... )

(Because cuthalion asked a question, and my reply swelled to dwarf the original post ( Read more... )

At the invitation of discoflamingo, Alyssa and I joined him and ytinas yesterday for a puzzle quest, which neither of us had done before ( Read more... )

We chose a Haralson for our second apple tree. Everything went more smoothly this time, since I'd learned what to expect from the first one.

I hope he's all snug in his mulch, because there is a frost warning for tonight.

I pulled a muscle in my neck yesterday morning. That wasn't so bad until I yanked it or something a couple hours later; then it was spasming and painful anytime I looked left ( Read more... )

The weekend was good:
( Guests, Work, Poetry )