I got to drive Arthur, bangping's spiffy HHR, to work this morning. (Well, I drove him yesterday too, but bangping was sitting next to me trying not to have a heart-attack.) It's been an interesting experience, since Arthur has a manual transmission. Until this week, I hadn't touched anything with a stick shift since I learned to drive, aside from a brief period ( Read more... )

So, there's nothing like missing a day of work on the day layoffs are announced and coming back to discover that while you were out, your boss and a co-worker had to go through and rebuild EVERYTHING you'd built the day before due to a website outage. (Y'all, my awesome, awesome former boss got laid off--I am so sad ( Read more... )