Strange improvements in technology: The ATMs here are all spiffy and new. You no longer need deposit envelopes, for example. Instead, you feed in the check, it scans it, puts a picture of it up on the screen, reads the amount on the check and asks you if it's correct. Then when you're done it prints out a picture of the check on your receipt. It's ( Read more... )

As of today, lysimache and I have been dating for three years. Go us. I keep thinking it has to be more than three, because it feels like a very long time, but I guess three is relatively long. Hooray, I have a most excellent girlfriend. I miss her ( Read more... )

Today I went to the SF Zoo with my mother and brother, because we hadn't gone to the zoo in probably fifteen years and my mother likes activities where we talk to each other, and there's no good movies playing, she says ( Read more... )

So last night I did indeed stay up and watch "Demons" and "Gethsemane" to finish off the XF S4 DVDs, which is the last full season I'm planning to watch. (I now have a few S5 eps on tape and the series finale. All hail lysimache.) These episodes convinced me that Mulder is insane and alien autopsies are squicky. It doesn't help that they started with the ( Read more... )

At about 12:45 today, I remembered that we had wanted to go look at hieroglyphs at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose. They were doing a special thing where they'd teach you to read hieroglyphs and then point out some in their museum, at 2 pm. When I remembered this, I was eating lunch and was still in my pajamas, and it takes about an ( Read more... )