If I felt any urge to buy Himself a holiday gift, Amazon.com just recommended the following to me:

Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America

Thank you, Amazon, for making me laugh so hard I snorted my drink.

Bonus hilarity: at the time it made the recommendation, I had just purchased the Sausage Stuffer Kit ( Read more... )

I bought cards for the May birthdays in my immediate family back in April and had them stamped, addressed and penciled "mail by [one week before birthday]" on the envelopes so I got them out on time, but Himself's birthday slipped my memory until last week ( Read more... )

For those of you in Colorado that wish to pay final respects to Cap'n Bob, his memorial a service has been set for 3 PM on Monday, 28 November at Staging Area A of Fort Logan National Cemetery. There will be an open house at Himself's mother's home after the service.

CRAWFORD, ROBERT L.
"CAP'N BOB" U.S. ARMY SPECIAL FORCES, RETIRED U.S.M.C.
Died Thursday, October 27, 2005.
No funeral services. Survived by mother Dorothy Stringer, children Robert and Denise Crawford, granddaughter Laurel Crawford, 2 sisters and extended family.

Published in the Denver Newspaper Agency on 11/2/2005.

The DFW-DEN flight was uneventful beyond free in-seat TV programming and Laurel peeing through her Pull-Up. (I changed her pre-boarding, it apparently wasn't enough!). She's been with me at my parents' since and happy as a bug ( Read more... )

Allergy misery should end tomorrow. Stress on the /should/, since coordinating everything to get them back on the road is starting to make our last move look easy. We're also counting to make sure all four dogs leave with Armida and Ronnie because Sarah keeps letting them in. (Knowing about our allergies, they try to keep two or three dogs in the ( Read more... )

A few nights ago, we turned to C-SPAN2 for filler before Adult Swim started. (Normally we'd watch Comedy Central from 2230-0000, but since Comcast upgraded our lineup, CC comes in intermittently at best so we watch History or whatever we can get in that's sufficiently entertaining.)

The National Governors Association winter meeting wasn't ( Read more... )

Despite my adventure-filled weekend, I really don't have much to say. karaksindru and I watched all of Cowboy Bebop over three nights, ate cheddar butter popcorn and Heath Bites, and generally hung out. He has the patience of a saint, which is a good thing since I would probably do well to find a way to worry less ( Read more... )

Himself should be safely in California by now, although I probably won't hear from him until tomorrow since he's allergic to calling to let me know things like that. *wry grin ( Read more... )

My time offline since the LAN party was unintentional. We were too tired to unpack after getting home, then it was effing cold (3" snow on Tuesday) and today we put in a decent effort on sorting clutter we'd let build up. I'm very glad to be back. (:

Today's good news: revme's package arrived. In addition to the promo-not-for-sale R.E.M. album, which ( Read more... )