Every morning I walk from my neighbourhood across two parking lots and then across a side street which has a traffic light. I make a point of crossing WITH the light, because so many people rush out of the side street and turn right, which means they never look in my direction. I've taken to tapping on hoods (well, OK, hitting) to make these ( Read more... )

I bought my new gadget last week: Motorola Devour. Even though I bought it without a voice or data plan, it still came locked to Verizon. I don't want to use it as a phone, I'm locked in to my 2-year phone plan and I don't need it as a phone right now. I think I need to 'crack' it away from the carrier. I've gotten past the Motorola Blur stuff ( ( Read more... )

I've got a bad case of the grouchies today. Apparently it's contagious, too.
Great.

Kansas did me well last time I needed to be from somewhere else...

As asim pointed out yesterday, this hasn't stopped at all. Racist judge story 1 and story 2It's worth mentioning a few facts here ( Read more... )

Septic tank backup ( Read more... )

• work (specifically something that is not our responsibility or within our power to fix, but is still causing us problems)
• family - two cousins and one parent - formal wedding for which I need to go shopping, different cousin with possible health problems and parent being problematic.
• migraine, just starting.
• work (different, new problem that just ( Read more... )

nothing like some stress with a side of stress to start your week off right (a day late ( Read more... )

or: "Oops ( Read more... )

So I didn't manage to get back to UNC in time for the memorial service yesterday, mostly because I got caught up in some geekery at work (the security difference between passing passwords as environmental variables or from a file read in at run-time, and the extreme (perceived ?) importance thereof) and had to re-write a couple of programs right ( Read more... )

Well, I did go to PT this morning. It turned out to be the dumbest thing I did all day, on a day which included driving in frozen rain.
( PT )