As stated earlier, Mom and I went to Michelle's for Christmas. Her entire family was there: her parents, her sister, her brother and his wife, her three cousins and their three kids. We showed up at 3pm and ate dinner shortly thereafter. After dinner, we hung out for a while and socialized, at which point the Onstads and LaMantias showed up, as ( Read more... )

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next few sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

A cavalry platoon consists of two light or heavy cavalry squads with a hoof-priest, a ( Read more... )

laevus was too sick to go to Estrella, so he and cyberpilate came down to L.A. for the day yesterday. After they went to what was by all accounts a really shitty Dr. Who convention, they picked me up and we had dinner and a movie. The movie was Jumper ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I bought myself a belated Christmas present in the form of an XboX 360, along with Mass Effect, the game that pretty much sealed the deal in terms of which next-gen console I would be buying.

Damn, this thing is LOUD. It's tolerable when it's just on and I'm tooling around with XboX Live stuff, but once it starts reading a disk, I ( Read more... )

Earlier today, I spilled water on my computer keyboard, making it so that 86% of the keys no longer worked. Unsatisfied with a life spent typing in shorthand l33t-speak, I ventured out to Best Buy to get a keyboard. Once I got there, I got an idea. I would buy one of those metal arms that you use to mount monitors to desks, thus allowing me to ( Read more... )

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After two weeks on the laptop, I am finally back on the PC, de-skanked thanks to the heroic efforts of bigevil. Thanks for spending some of your vacation dealing with my shit ( Read more... )

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I went to swat a fly that had landed on my monitor, and I guess I swatted it a little too hard, because now my monitor is broken. Not broken like "shattered glass all over the place" broken, but broken like "it won't come back on" broken ( Read more... )

I went to Disneyland with eowyn42 and fuzzygondol yesterday. We were signed in for free by speedball's roomate James, although we still had to pay for parking (no big whoop). It was a lot of fun, despite having slept a mere 5 1/2 hours the night before; we carpooled, so that was nice. It was pretty warm, too, but nothing I couldn't handle. If Renn Faires have given me ( Read more... )