Okay, quick post time!  Because I'm at work and hope to do a more leisurely one later (oh, who am I kidding? But a quick post is better than none at all, right?  Right!)

I survived the lovely, lovely vacation!  nightengale  and sorchafyre , fortunately, survived it as well (though there were moments where I'm sure they doubted the outcome, mainly while caving and while ( Read more... )

I haz a bluetooth.

Yeah, yeah, I know, I'm last place in the technology race and all that, shut up. I finally got one, okay? And I admit, I'm kind of impressed; I could hear my brother Bill pretty clearly, even on his crappy phone with the crappy Florida reception that he has to go out onto his balcony to get to work at ALL.  ^_^  I got a decent mid ( Read more... )

Hiya! Just a very quick summary of what's going on, but first and formost a very large Happy Birthday to two very good friends as of 8/10 & 8/12:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, sorchafyre AND nightengale

I have presents for you both, but I can't send 'em until I get back from vacation.

And speaking of which... I headed out last Friday to the lovely city of New Orleans; it was ( Read more... )

1.  Today is my father's birthday.  The fact that he died seven years ago doesn't take that away from me or from him; he would've been 85 years old today, had he lived.  I remember his music, his jokes, his pig-headed pain-in-the-ass stubbornness (that I inherited in droves) and his optimism; he damn well wasn't any sort of saint, but he was a good ( Read more... )

So: there's a little person dancing around in the back of my head singing "IIIIII'M NOT AT WOOOOORK, IIIIII'M NOT AT WOOOOOOKR!!!"  Yeah, my week-anna-half of time off has officially started.  Sure hope everything goes swimmingly so I don't come back to a complete and utter fubar.

Em made it into Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix despite a slight delay ( Read more... )