Hrm. With the most recent airfare increases, it has once again become cheaper to take Amtrak from Atlanta to New York for the Pompeii exhibition in Discovery Times Square or to Philadelphia for the Leonardo's Workshop exhibition (which just left DTS) at the Franklin Institute. If I could sleep in crappy plane seats on red-eye flights to and from ( Read more... )

For the curious, here are some shots from my recent trip up to Maine. Yes, there are a lot of mountain shots in there. That's why I went ( Read more... )

So I just got a jury summons in the mail ( Read more... )

( A bit wandery, sort of like the weekend itself. )

1. Post 3 things you've done in your lifetime that you don't think anybody else on your friends list has done ( Read more... )

Well, not much of a vacation in the "trip" sense. Definitely a vacation in the "not at work" sense, though. We got Wednesday & Thursday off from work for Independence Day this year. I'm taking off today. I probably could have gone into the office today--especially since I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing, but it's not going to be anything ( Read more... )

And after 12 hours' sleep, I'm even somewhat coherent. This weekend is dedicated to getting my sleep schedule back on track for this time zone. Shouldn't be too bad--I should have just gone to bed about 10-10:30 last night, instead of staying up 'til midnightish. Or perhaps if I had gotten a moderate amount of sleep on the flights back ( Read more... )

It's far too early in the morning, but I fell asleep about 10:30 pm last night, since it had been a harsh week at work and I'd been up late most of the week. Of course, this meant I started waking up about 5 am. I've just been lying in bed resting and making attempts at sleeping since then ( Read more... )

Wow. A herd of llamas got out this week.

I am, however, to the point of officially ignoring them now. Had plenty from work; tired of the ones from gaming. Thanks, but I game to have fun, not get caught up in the Llama Squad. This is why I leave games ( Read more... )

It's always annoying when regulations change around one ( Read more... )