I keep looking for the small, all-in-one electronic device that will be my life in one place, but replaceable if stolen ( Read more... )

These were a quarter a piece at the Casa de los Ninos thrift shop ( Read more... )

Waaaay back when, Steve had a respectable punk collection. He thought the records were all lost until I found the vinyl in a waterstained cardboard box that made it to our condo ( Read more... )

To celebrate the introduction of the iWatch and iPhone 6, Apple put a copy of the latest U2 album in everybody's iTunes. I can absolutely understand why people are raging about this, and they are right. Me, I just like free music, and so far it's being an enjoyable album. I haven't bought a U2 album since "Joshua Tree" and while they have lost ( Read more... )

Steve found out that Tyr was playing in Ramona, about 45 minutes northeast of here. Birgit and Liz resolved to go as soon as he made this announcement, and another couple we know, Heather and Rusty, found a babysitter and made it a date night ( Read more... )

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Warhammer 40k books: Soul Drinker, Deus Encarnadine, Grey Knights. IIRC, Soul Drinker is out of print ( Read more... )

In the past couple of weeks, I feel as if I've emerged from a depression I didn't realize I was in. (Cue lots of people telling me that THEY knew, I'm sure.) I've started working on all of my NCO-associated aggravation rather than procrastinating and making excuses. I've been chipping steadily on a huge pile of paper books I've accumulated ( Read more... )

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First, a link to a video of Irish harpists for a cause ( Read more... )