There is ACTUAL COLDNESS COMING IN THROUGH MY WINDOW.  More, please ( Read more... )

I've had an unexpectedly interesting week.

( Rearranging furniture )

Anybody have any idea what's so special about 10" pie plates/pans that they are rare and expensive?  I finally located an aluminum one for under $10.  At a place called Sur La Table.  'Cause I sure wasn't going to spend the $20+ on a piece of glass or metal that, frankly, merely required a larger mold ( Read more... )

My friend with the slightly-older-than-one-year-old child once told me how taxing it is as an extravert to be stuck at home with a preverbal child all day.  The one person available to interact with doesn't communicate in your language, neither does she communicate at your level.  I thought about that.  It hadn't occurred to me that extraverts need ( Read more... )

Netflix has Duck Soup.  I'd never seen any Marx Brothers stuff before, so I watched it.  I'm sure there's lots I didn't get, and some things didn't age well, but I gotta say, nearly eighty years on, I about died when someone asked Harpo for a light and he pulled a blowtorch out of his pants.

Also, you can really see where Animaniacs got its ( Read more... )

There's this news article about a family that's trying to raise their child without revealing its sex, until such time as the child chooses to reveal it.  They're giving the usual argument about gender roles and how restrictive they are and how they believe their child should make those decisions itself.

( For a given value of gender )

Lately, I've been reading The Law Complete by C. Northcote Parkinson.  It looks like it's out of print (I've got my dad's copy), which is too bad.  Because it is a very funny, very dry, very British book detailing very true things about How Society Works.  There's one "official" Parkinson's Law, but The Law Complete presents several profound ( Read more... )

Y'know, the trouble with working on music that's only just been written is that it is badly in need of an editor ( Read more... )

Thursday night I started to get a sore throat, and Friday I probably could have stayed home from work (but it was Friday with a three day weekend.  I can manage one day).  Geek Night got cancelled for its own reasons, and I dozed for a bit once I got home.  I feared being ill today, because it's my turn to sing for Saturday church (Brand new ( Read more... )

So my student loan I'm gonna pay off is through Wells Fargo, right?  I go to one of their branches during lunch yesterday and the cashier says that the student loan part is not the same as the rest of it and says I'd have to talk to a banker who would have to talk to the Student Loan department over the phone.  I didn't have time, so I thanked her ( Read more... )