Last night I noticed some kids hanging out on my stoop. My parents are away and my brothers were having a party at the time, so I checked with my brothers to ensure the loiterers were not theirs. They weren't, so I asked them to please get off my stoop. This one kid said no, he wouldn't, he and his friends lost something and anyways they were only ( Read more... )

I had an excellent time working the Green Room with erin_trying, rosefox, sinboy, glib_dichotomy, malaul, and Randee [edit: kitteridge, and anyone else I missed [edit: deyo, and mactavish, for example]. I didn't get to spend much time out and about in the con, but it all worked out. Got some tasties from Dealer's Row, and got significant driving experience-at night and in (light) snow on the way home, even ( Read more... )

If I'm out, I should leave by 930p.
At home, I should re-institute the 10p sleepy alarm.

Should I do these on weekends, too? How badly will this kill my anemic social life? Is there any other way to deal with the new 540a wake up?

Thanks, the_xtina for getting me hooked on yet another webcomic (that doesn't have an RSS feed ( Read more... )

Found this in Secaucus Junction. But I'm pretty sure that it wasn't the reason that it smelled funny. (It always does ( Read more... )

This is a silly photo Pat took of me several months ago. I'm a hardcore Sith Lord, or something ( Read more... )

Time Budget (approx.)

Sleeping: 49 hrs/wk (generous)
Commuting: 17.5 hrs/wk (conservative)
Working: 48 hrs/wk
Lunch break @ work: 6 hrs/wk
TKD: 6 hrs/wk
School: 5 hrs/wk
Total accounted hours used per week: 131.5

For reference, there are 168 hours in a week. Therefore, I have 36.5 unaccounted hours-a little over 5 per day (although most of those ( Read more... )

I think that I've been having a failure to post lately for a few reasons. A major one is that work is keeping me busy and keeping me away from computers (unlike the kind of busy that college kept me ( Read more... )

I would like to thank the following for showing up to my birthday gathering this weekend (in no particular order): queenbast, her Gabe1, faboo, malaul, their son Liam, ellf, his Lauren, ladyravn, jcholewa, Alex, Kitri, shoujo_mallet, faery_kat, her Isaiah, Laura, last_soldier, stoneliongrowl, catmandux, Montgomery, Jeff, angst_pirate, and quem98. Also, special thanks to my sous-chefs stoneliongrowl, Alex, and Kitri. And an extra special one to the last two in that list for ( Read more... )

So I was reading this Digg post about Ahmadinejad saying that there are no homosexuals in Iran. There was the predictable "Check the closets" line, and some rumblings about Tom Cruise and mass murder. Of note, however, was the following exchange*:In America - we just ignore their rightsJesus, you're dense. America ignores gay rights? We have hate ( Read more... )