Nothing like coming into work having not been the California resident who will share in the $1.5 billion Power Ball lottery (although I did match 1 number--perhaps a new record for me), facing doing a performance review at work (late), managing to spill coffee all down my front (as well as my desk and the floor), and then discovering Alan Rickman ( Read more... )

aka 'stuff I did this weekend worth mentioning, I guess' :)

Friday night, ebonlock eschewed what has become our usual co-playing of "Mass Effect" to watch the Joss Whedon commentary track on the new The Avengers DVD that came out last week. As usual, his is a dry wit and it was a lot of fun hearing his behind-the-scenes conversation about how the movie ( Read more... )

Okay, today's Two Lumps was both funny and horrifying at the same time ( Read more... )

Bad: My DSL was down for pretty much the entire day. Until shortly before AT&T called to tell me "oh, we're sorry, we probably won't make the FOUR HOUR WINDOW we gave you, but we'll be there by 6!" No, you won't, since I have plans tonight. Thank you for nothing. (I'm re-scheduled for tomorrow morning. I'm not holding my breath ( Read more... )

I have a few separate things I want to blog about, so this one (which just jumped to the head of the queue) gets to be the catch all, microblog post ( Read more... )

( Ze list--Update 2: some progress, a lot of failure )

( Ze list--Updated )

I thank my lucky stars that I'm still employed. I may not have gotten a real raise in a while, but I'm still getting bonuses.

This year's bonus got deposited in my account today, and with it, I'm using the sudden influx of income to pay for a bunch of stuff I've put off for a while, due to lack of cash. Y'know, stuff like:

• My birthday party (it's ( Read more... )

( Weekendage: houseguests, Stitches, stuff around the house )

( Summary: Up and down kinda day, but overall, same ol', same ol' )