Got home this morning from my camping trip into Minnesota's Boundary Waters region. It's always a nice break to get away from all things that plug in, but I'm glad to be home. On my epic drive home (which unexpectedly turned into a 2 day affair) I was doing a roundup:

10 days of camping by the numbers1378 miles driven ( Read more... )

So Saturday I'll be on my way toward Minnesota and thisclose to the Boundary Waters for 10 days of camping. Crazy? Slightly. No tv, no computer, no cell phone. At least there'll be plenty of stuff to eat and I'm practically packing a full bar to take with me, so that'll keep it from turning into the Donner party. If it wasn't for my ultra-crazy and ( Read more... )

Currently sitting in Starbucks because we don't have internet at the new place yet. When it'll all be set to rights and I'm contentedly sitting on the couch, downloading the newest ep of True Blood while watching Bourdain, surrounded by mountains of boxes, is anyone's guess. But until then, thank you free WiFi and all you illicit interweb peeps ( Read more... )

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Two months ago I decided to put my nose to the grindstone and train for the Shamrock Shuffle 8K race. Which was today. Right now. So, yeah... I'm not running. Why? Oh, because there was a fucking BLIZZARD this morning!!

( Em effing snow pics )

It was a good day.

Real life things that happened todayThing 1: only had to work for 4 hours. After the 10+ hour days I've been putting in this week I was grateful ( Read more... )

Today the bored monster tried to take me prisoner, but I rallied and enlisted a couple of my fellow fans into an SGA fictional Q&A. You can read about it and comment on kitestringer's journal here. My ideas turned into little drabble-esque stories, so I'll post them here rather than muck up kite's comment page.

( What is John's favorite dessert. )