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Meme? Sure, why not?
1. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME (mother's & father's middle names): Ann Fay
2. NASCAR NAME (first name of your mother's dad, father's dad): Jimmy Earl (Gramp V's first name was Charles, but for some reason everybody called him Jimmy)
3. STAR WARS NAME: (the first 2 letters of your last name, first 4 letters of your first name): GeLori
I don't recall that ( Read more... ) -
Tea & Evil
Note: Not to be a downer, and it certainly wasn’t planned, but two recent deaths had a lot to do with how this post turned out, and I want to give credit where credit is due. The sudden outbreak of footnotes in my writing could only have been inspired by the late David Foster Wallace. They were supposed to appear somewhere else, but they decided to ( Read more... ) -
Watch This Space
Today, if time permits, I hope to post an entry telling y'all about how I finally got to meet my esteemed colleague in villainy treadpath and her nifty family in person after an online acquaintance of - what, about 5 years now? Ye gods.
Suffice to say, it was awesome, and I hope not just for me. -
5+ Things meme - hey, why not
Post five or more things you've done that you don't believe anyone on your Friends list has done. Then find out you're wrong ( Read more... ) -
Mud, Sweat and Gears
On the off chance that I ever decide to get back in the game, it's safe to say that "dirt bike enthusiast" will not be on my list of Ideal Mates. And should I end up with one anyway, I may well encourage him to go without his helmet and chest plate - this for my own safety and general peace of mind.
( Can you hear the banjos? ) -
Mystery Meat Substitute
Can any of you guys please tell me what soy bacon tastes like? I ask this as someone who has recently eaten some. It was crunchy, at least until I mixed it into the lentils and veggies, at which point it became...flexible. It had a mildly salty taste that was somehow familiar, but I could not match the flavor to any meat product in my taste memory ( Read more... ) -
The Miracle of the Dells
My work computer died 4 or 5 months ago. Several others have been dying slow deaths, to the point where there were 4 of us sharing a machine. And today, after months of waiting and inconvenience and being told "We're getting new computers, but they're, um, on backorder, yeah", after over a month of seeing the stack of allegedly new-computer- ( Read more... ) -
Me, Myself an I
So, hi. I thought I'd blow the dust off my LJ and post a wee update.
( But it's mainly boring EMS crap, so here's a cut so you won’t have to read it. )