Those of you who responded to my post on the Herald, THANK YOU. I'm in the middle of seeing if I can get Menomegirl to add you to the su_editors community, so I can update everyone at once and figure out who wants what night and all that stuff. Once that's squared away, I'll send all of you all the info you need to post, and contact the owner of ( Read more... )

Just heard from my sister that her latest CT/PET scan showed no signs of cancer, which is the best possible news for the chemo regime she's been on for the last several months to deal with the recurrence. This doesn't necessarily mean it's gone; it's probably still lurking somewhere, but it's responded really well to the treatment and she says her ( Read more... )

I have heard of this before but never read it until now - William Makepeace Thakeray laments the tendency of novelists to say "The End!" as soon as hero and heroine fall into a clinch:

I have often wished that additions should be made to all works of fiction which have been brought to abrupt terminations in the manner described; and that we should ( Read more... )

Thank you, Petzi! I don't look at my profile page often enough! After dragging my butt home after way too much time at work today, they were just what I needed. :)


( Read more... )

People sent me balloons! Thank you, people!

Some kind but anonymous person gave me paid time! Thank you, kind person!

So there's various wildlife in our landscaping at work, including a rabbit and a ground squirrel. (Or possibly many rabbits and ground squirrels, but we only ever see one of each, so...) Just now both of them were out, and the squirrel kept running right at the rabbit, who would jump straight up into the air and kick his feet, and then run at the ( Read more... )

OK, remember that xkcd strip riffing on the Discovery Channel commercial? Somebody animated it, and it is AWESOME.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

I Love xkcd from NoamR on Vimeo.