Saturday I had a haircut at 11:45, so I got in the shower right after making breakfast. Normally I would have gone to the record store afterwards, but it's been in the mid-90s all month (August in Louisiana is the literal fucking worst) and of course with the humidity it feels over 100°. I didn't want to walk even a block and a half in that. So I ( Read more... )

I would like to believe in God,” she said, “because I don’t want to believe we just end, even though it balances the equation-since we came from blackness, it seems logical to assume that it’s to blackness we return. But I believe in the stars, and the infinity of the universe. That’s the great Out There. Down here, I believe there are more ( Read more... )

We don't have today off from work, although we may have a day or two off in the middle of the week if they wind up closing the office due to the low temperatures. The deep south just doesn't have the infrastructure in place to deal with ice; for one thing, in this climate you can't store giant bags of salt in some warehouse on the off chance you'll ( Read more... )

My work keyboard developed a sticky 0 key this week, randomly inserting strings of 0000000000000s into my emails and documents. I knew if I asked work to replace it they would give me some crusty old piece of junk from storage that was full of other people's ancient lunch crumbs, so I just decided to buy my own. And if I was gonna buy my own, I ( Read more... )