Remains of Star Trek's 'Scotty' headed for space :

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051014/en_nm/doohan_dc

Doohan's cremated remains will be packed into a special tube that is ejected from the rocket and expected to orbit Earth for about 50 to 200 years before plunging ( Read more... )

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Darn, just went to make a cup of coffee, and our lovely little boiling hot and refrigerated cold water taps by the sink in the breakroom are gone! Drat. Microwaved hot water just isn't the same. I may have to try it for some tea though; I need some caffeine ( Read more... )

...and this one can't be all bad...

When you see this, post a bit of poetry in your own LJ.

From today's The Writer's Almanac:

Men Come, Men Go, but Laundry is Foreverby Sara King ( Read more... )

Our office manager retired and today is her good-bye luncheon. It's being held at a country club and there is dress code - no tanks, shorts, or denim jeans. I find it ironic that we're having a lunch at a place with a dress code more stringent than our office We did have a "no shorts" policy, only because someone came in from going running at ( Read more... )

For a challenge by megthelegend - who added me out of the blue a few months ago, and I'm ever so glad she did... :) I know this was due the week after you issued it, but it rapidly got out of hand and threatened to become novel-sized. I'm sorry it took me so long...

Meg sez...
senoritafish wants a non-(fiction)writer DARE ( Read more... )

Since we got our tax refund (read loan check from H&R Block), we spent last Saturday shopping for bunk beds for the boys. Angus has been sleeping on a kid's couch that folds out into a bed, since we moved Avalon into his bed - we converted it back into a crib from a toddler bed ( Read more... )

Yee-ha ( Read more... )