It is past time for me to be sitting at this keyboard pretending that I'm going to get some work done. 

My DVR decided not to tape Survivor Nicaragua, which I'm taking as a sign from the universe that I am not meant to watch this season.  Otoh, The Amazing Race starts Sunday.  That show has a much sunnier view of human nature than Survivor - the really nasty moves/teams tend to be punished somehow, not rewarded, not to mention that the travelling ( Read more... )

Today felt like holding a huge hank of yarn, with the cut ends of everything I’m trying to keep track of/do/take care of or work on/for/with flopping out.  So here's a taste:

I woke up really early (for me). No moral fortitude involved, this cold just had me so miserable I couldn’t pull my usual get back into bed and go back to sleep after the ( Read more... )

The brief got in this afternoon, with two minutes to spare.  Yeah, I like to live dangerously.  While I was running between the courthouse and the clerk's office, I kept telling myself, "This case is NOT worth a stroke."   (Right, not getting paid.  How'dya guess?)  Still managed to eat up my afternoon.

In other news  I find the metrics mostly ( Read more... )

Woot!  I whacked two whole projects off of my 4-project priority to-do list!!!

And some days, peeps, that's all one can ask for.

The fe-lions are hungry and confused, and so am I.  After an unproductive day I lay down to reread Laura Ann Gilman's Retriever's series (I've read the first three, and have acquired the last three).  I remember petting Loosefur (who is entitled to petting whenever I read, in his little world) and putting the book [Staying Dead: www.amazon.com/s/ ( Read more... )

Divorce lawyers, dykes*, faggots and rational people everywhere celebrate the decision of U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker that California's "Proposition 8 both unconstitutionally burdens the exercise of the fundamental right to marry and creates an irrational classification on the basis of sexual orientation."  @p111.   You can read the ( Read more... )

My D'oh factor seems really high so far this week.  Specifically, I noticed the skin on my hands was itchy, and applying lotion didn't seem to help.

Could that  be because I'm allergic to almost  everything?  (One of the major frustrations of the dermic allergies is that I never know what's going to set them off.)    My father's wife buys us a Bath ( Read more... )

The tall ships have come to the North Coast.    I can see their masts from my office, where I waited fruitlessly for a client to show up, because although she'd called to cancel YESTERDAY, ATT didn't bother to deliver any voice mails until this afternoon.  I'm used to Verizon doing that, but it's a new trick on ATT's part.

And on a totally ( Read more... )

Okay, make that three days down on the cold.   I never even made it out of bed yesterday, though I'd made plans to see a friend of mine who was in town for the weekend.  I haven't even made a pot of coffee since I got back (true definition of WoW ill=doesn't want coffee).

I wouldn't have gotten out of bed this morning, either, despite wake-up ( Read more... )