The Yay: J and I finally figured we should stop stalling and tie the knot. I originally proposed way back in Novemer 2009, but we lost our bunny in January 2010 and that kind of put a damper on everything and we kind of got lost in daily life after that. So we're looking at an August surprise wedding. We plan to invite all of our friends out on a ( Read more... )

I hate that woman at the worker's comp insurer. Hate hate hate her. She doesn't care that the pat little diagnosis that their "examiner" decided to stick me with doesn't jibe with what my last doctor said. Oh, no, my claim is still denied and I have to deal with this stupid hearing just so I can try to talk them into taking care of their fucking ( Read more... )

Main laptop is being a jerk. First the keyboard stared randomly scrolling, then it stopped working after reboot. Several reboots, it still didn't work but everything else was fine. I wanted to take a look at the BIOS settings, so I plugged in an external USB keyboard and hit F2 at startup. Except the BIOS doesn't want to work with an external ( Read more... )

Amazon sucks ever since they started their Prime scam. Now Super Saver Shipping items get purposely delayed because they want to penalize people into either paying shipping or buying Prime memberships. I emailed them to see if something I ordered (which is in stock) could be shipped tomorrow instead of being delayed until the 8th (did I mention I ( Read more... )

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After my last run-in with the DMV's complete and utter incompetence, I called Tuesday before last to straighten out the previous mouth-foam generating fiasco and the woman on the phone said the letter informing me of my lack of driving privilege was probably just sent automatically and she'd generate another request for my updated ID address ( Read more... )

I don't drive, but I have an ID card. I moved a while back and hadn't updated my address yet, but with needing to get a passport for the Vancouver Stargate convention, I wanted to get my updated address sticker so I could go down and apply for my passport ( Read more... )

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Being off work at the moment, I keep odd hours and was up this morning at my normal time of 1:00 am ( Read more... )

• Submitted my art for the SGA Big Bang.
  
  
• Went out for anniversary dinner. Fondue is yum.
  
  
• Proposed to significant other, proposal accepted. Shiny black stainless steel wedding bands deployed. Really like our rings, they're interesting enough and no conflict diamonds were involved. (I don't care for diamonds or traditional wedding rings, so I ( Read more... )