This time it's for joy. Harper's gone!
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I just realized I started keeping this ten years ago yesterday. Happy belated anniversary to me. :)

In the sense of "I saw two objects that were flying and which I could not identify." Not in the sense of "OMG aliens are going to abduct us!"

We got home from a restaurant and saw two red lights in the sky, moving up and down. They weren't airplanes because they had no wings or port or starboard lights. Not stars or anything in orbit because the ( Read more... )

News of Bradbury's death is, of course, all over the Internet. (Somewhat ironically, IMO, given how much the man hated the Internet.) I had been taking a break from posting Real World stuff on here, but this is - well, this is Ray Bradbury. I used to watch Ray Bradbury Theatre religiously and I can still visualize the opening credits. I read and ( Read more... )

Went down to Halifax yesterday and came back today. Saw Green Lantern and TF:DotM. Enjoyed Green Lantern very much, could have done with about 90% of the humans and 99.99% of the 'humour' in the latter. Better than TF:RotF (not that that's hard) but not as good as the first one, I don't think ( Read more... )

Have a Shirtless Sulu to ring in 2010 ( Read more... )

As of yesterday, Hubby and I have been married for as many years as the original Trek had seasons.

I just saw that E. Gary Gygax died. I never really got into gaming, not as much as I would have liked to, but he had such an impact on geek culture, that naturally it affected my part in it. I find it somehow appropriate that I learned of this from John Kovalic's Dork Tower feed. Goodbye Mr. Gygax. May the Great GM ensure your dungeon crawls are ( Read more... )

The HR rep. from potential Day Job called and left a message yesterday after I left for work. She said something about making me an offer, and requested I call her back after 9:30 today. I'm still calling right on this one. They did call back in January, but I'll not have anything confirmed until February ( Read more... )

Seriously, though, happy New Year everyone!