The Queen of England is in town, more or less. More specifically, she is in the town in which I work. This is quite noticeable in a town with... what? 4,000 people. Not least when it comes to the evening commute. We had, at the time I was intending to leave work what appeared to be a much larger parking lot than usual. This impression was imposed ( Read more... )

My hard drive died! As in, bleet-bleet-bleet funny noises when attempting boot, no OS found, the whole shebang ( Read more... )

I am now finally picking up K's cold, and I wish I could learn to just let them lay when I come across them. Ugh.
And tomorrow is Monday, which is a work day, and we have a desperatly high percentage risk of bad news this week.

Hmf.

I always mumble grumblingly whenever I hear people say stuff like "If you don't like the weather here in Sweden/Kentucky/Texas/Germany/Pleiades Alpha, just stick around for five minutes and it'll change!" and then laugh and pretend that they just said something unique, or indeed even remotely funny, but I have to admit that today was kind of ( Read more... )

I have to work tomorrow ( Read more... )

I got to leave work early today, which was unexpected, as we're probably going to have to work on Saturday, doing inventory. Saturday will suck, but getting home from work at 4PM was quite lovely. Can't say that I did all that much with my newly won additional freedom, but it was nice none the less ( Read more... )

How hard is it for a golden retriever to make a positive impression?

NOT HARD, that's how hard. And yet, yours is continually failing.

I mean, really. Sit. Stand. Run. Whatever. People like golden retrievers. You'll do alright.

Here are the three no-nos:

Don't piss in other peoples' yards FAILDon't dig holes in other peoples' yards FAILDon't ( Read more... )

Have I complained to you in this journal about the state of the English language yet? Well, yeah, but recently? Well, yeah, okay, all the time, but have I done so specifically about the word literally ( Read more... )

Background: About two hours of driving from where we currently reside lies Mammoth Caves, the worlds longest known cave system. My memory is as good as always, but I'm thinking they're guessing it's somewhere between 500 and 1,000 miles in total. That's a lot of caves. Anyway. When I came to visit for the first time back in -99, Mammoth Caves was ( Read more... )

This marks the second year that I've been driving my car without any functioning heat. I've been trying to figure out why. See, here's the thing. The thermostat is shot. It's about $5. Actually, I believe I have one somewhere, even. At least I did, as I bought it right away when the one currently in the car broke. I just haven't fixed it. It's ( Read more... )