Friends, I am sad to report that the heart rate machine in emergency rooms does not make a constant beeping noise. It makes several beeps when it's first connected, then nothing. I really wanted to act out this commercial:

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What is does do is connect to your chest via very sticky tape. Your chest and chest hair. My torso now looks like a ( Read more... )

Last Sunday, Rachel and I were being lead to our table at Arthur's when I spotted someone in a Syracuse fleece ( Read more... )

I took a much needed mini-vacation this weekend. Half a day on Friday, the weekend, today (Labor Day), and a half day tomorrow. I promised myself that I wouldn't do any work, at least on Friday, and immediately broke that promise. What have I done? I re-watched "The Ember Island Players" and finished the rest of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I ( Read more... )

Happy new year! It's been a fun past few weeks. I spent Christmas with Rachel's mother's side of her family in Atlanta. I was hoping to get to wear short-sleeved shirts outdoors for at least a day or two, but that massive snowstorm on Christmas managed to sweep all the way down the coast, coating the city in an inch of snow. It was adorable ( Read more... )

Had a great time at the Cincinnati Comic Expo last weekend. There were plenty of vendors with whom I spent more money than I planned, but I got great deals so it balances out, right? I saw a ton of bunch of costumes, the best being Tim-Red Robin and Steph-Batgirl. There were dozens of people in Green Lantern shirts. I was the only person in an ( Read more... )

I was asked by my very sweet co-worker on Friday afternoon. The question caught me off-guard. For one, I completely forgot that this weekend was Easter weekend. Totally slipped my mind. For the other, I'm not a Christian; I'm a Unitarian. Thinking of the story of death and rebirth of one man as it fits into a wider mythology and reality (at ( Read more... )

I'm taking the day off to await the delivery of our new queen-sized bed. Also, I don't take enough off-days. Outside of having to pay a stupid parking ticket (totally avoidable if I weren't so lazy, but who gives a ticket for parking in a no parking between 3 and 6 at 5 freaking 57?), it's been relaxing.

( Spoilers and surprisingly good cross-overs under the cut )

Some comedian has a bit about how ophthalmologists are just screwing with people and after going to the eye doctor on Wednesday, I can kinda see that (no pun intended). The assistant put me through the normal pre-doctor routine including that annoying glaucoma test where they tell you to stare at a bright light, then, without warning, blow a puff ( Read more... )

Well, when are we supposed to get rowdy ( Read more... )

Hey! Been awhile. As you might have guessed from my absence from LJ (longer than my new usual) and my last entry, I've been pretty busy. The way the endings our leases and the availability of the new place worked out, we decided to move in two phases. In phase one, Rachel, a bunch of my awesome friends (thank you so much), and I moved her stuff ( Read more... )