NCIS. Pleasantly surprised. My bar was kind of low and I was completely unspoiled. I thought the pacing was great, the emotional notes were hit, the cliffhanger well done. And there was some good Tony/Ziva ( Read more... )

E-mail 1: Form has been received, completed and sent ( Read more... )

Went to the Rally today. And by 'went to the Rally,' I mean, fought my way out of L'Enfant Plaza, flowed with the crowd till they started to get to me, then camped out and conversed with fellow rally-ers who couldn't see and could only hear the music, none of the spoken stuff. Olivia's misanthropy then kicked in and we headed away from the stage ( Read more... )

It's ungodly early, but I'm trying to keep up that damn sleep schedule, so there you have it ( Read more... )

I won’t talk about mom’s visit. It was both too long and too short and I’m relieved to have my home to myself and sad that she’s an ocean away.

I will talk about ( mini-vacation at Shenandoah )

Forgot in all the virus excitement yesterday to mention who I saw when I got home from the boardwalk. One of our cats is back. The multi, not the black one. (They're not really ours, of course, what with me being allergic.) I still don't know whose it is, but it was just sitting there, blase as anything under the carport. So I didn't pull all ( Read more... )

Worked today. All I have to say about that is that I'm pretty sure my left shoulder is a few inches higher than my right, and I got home about five hours ago. I just can't get it to relax ( Read more... )

And so now I'm back to reminscing about Iceland, Oban, Roundtree, the Arans, my 'wee Scottish hill' covered in snow, the St. Paul Winter Carnival, the Sapporo Ice Festival, even Plattsburgh (New York ( Read more... )

Strange day at work, especially given horrificness of Thursday...The 'bitchy' manager was all complimentary today; lots of 'great job's and 'thank you's and it was just weird, because none of the managers are like that, and this one is more likely to bite your head off for not being able to pat your head, rub your tummy, package a dozen bagels and ( Read more... )

So I typed all this up yesterday, and forgot to post. And since I'm lazy, I'm just pasting it all now...

What is the plural of Guinness? Guinnesses? Guinneae? Guinnessi?

On the way from getting said Guinness, I picked up stuff at the library. The book I forgot I requested was Warriors, an anthology edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner ( Read more... )