It started almost immediately. I knew the place wasn't in great shape, but it was the only apartment in town ( Read more... )

They're all basically the same, no matter which company owns them. They look similar both inside and out. Mostly the same stores pop up in each one - Sears, Hot Topic, Hallmark. The landscaping is usually different from region to region, though, and here you'll find palm trees and elephant ears, while in Tennessee you might find dogwoods. And the ( Read more... )

Late last year, Fox signed me up for a service called Bobcat in a Box. Based on an xkdc comic, this bot goes online every day and purchases an item with a cost of one American dollar or less, and has free shipping. You wouldn't think there would be a lot of stuff out there for under a buck that ships for free, but it's amazing what shows up in the ( Read more... )

"I want to play 'Railroad Tycoon' again. Can you get it to run ( Read more... )

About ten years ago, I started collecting cards. Some of them are tarot decks, and some are other kinds of divination cards. When I bought my second deck, I had one tarot deck in my possession that I'd acquired in college, and had gotten pretty dog-eared and beaten up over time. I try to be careful when handling my cards, and with that old college ( Read more... )

My Mom was an artist, and she mainly painted botanical studies in watercolor. Her work was pretty popular around where we lived in Knoxville, Tennessee, and one year she even painted the image for the Dogwoods Arts Festival poster. A pretty big deal, in Knoxville. She had a studio in the basement of our house, on one of the corners where the light ( Read more... )

( LJ Idol, Season Four, Entry 0 )