today was the 75th anniversary of the us dropping the bomb on nagasaki, which i learned we did to show japan (and i guess the world?) that hiroshima wasn't a fluke, and if we could do it once, we could do it a second time. whether that's the real reason or not, i don't know. when you're learning about ww2 in school, you don't really learn about ( Read more... )

my car is in the shop until sometime next week, so today i walked to the grocery store again, and because it was 89º and profoundly sunny when i left the house i brought... an umbrella. :D so i could bring the shade with me. on the way i met a very pretty golden retriever and his person, because he'd stopped so he could eat grass from someone's ( Read more... )

so last weekend i dropped one of my rings and when it rolled away down the pavement and i worried it was going to roll into the grass and be lost, i... stepped on it to stop it. and flattened it. >.< i took it to a jeweler near work on friday and explained what an idiot i was, and the guy said "it will be ten bucks, when can you come get it?" ( Read more... )