My laptop battery appears to be completely dead, despite what the computer itself says. Oh, that says "fully charged." The little icon for the battery, on the other hand, is blinking and orange, and the moment I unplugged my laptop, the whole thing died. I've tried restarting, I've tried removing the battery and getting rid of dust and putting it ( Read more... )

Fuck this for a box of chocolates.

So this morning I get in my car to head out to work, perfectly normal day. About half a mile down the road from the driveway is a sharp left turn that I've taken every day to work. I take it, and my car decides to get sick.

Suddenly it's making a very distressing noise that sounds like metal scraping against ( Read more... )

Help me to focus, Lord!
Ease my frantic thoughts that I may see the task at hand and not be distracted by all the others that loom on the horizon.
Steady my pace so that I can work without hurrying and without ceasing until the task is done.
Give me calmness that I might not feel overwhelmed by ordinary things.
Break the tensions so that I may be ( Read more... )

You know what?

I know that my dog Pete is old and scared of thunder and, for whatever god-forsaken reason, has decided that my room, whether it be in the old house or the new is to be his refuge from thunderstorms ( Read more... )

It's raining hard outside, with thunder rumbling throughout ( Read more... )

I'm definitely home.

There was just a distinct thump as Pete curled himself up by my door, leaning on it.

I'm still not entirely sure when he decided that I was "his" or whatever. He's supposed to be my dad's dog, and mom spends a lot of time training him, and Ben always plays with him when he comes home. I tend to ignore him unless I feel like ( Read more... )

Okay. Trying to make a long drive while sick? Not fun. Especially when the traffic seemed to have it out for me and provided me with all sorts of different stretches of road where there was work going on, often slowing the traffic to a crawl ( Read more... )

I got pampered, at least as much as I usually allow myself to be pampered ( Read more... )

I just got back from seeing Watchmen. I think that was the largest gathering of geeks I've been around since Otakon.

The entire way back, I kept thinking of a Discworld quote, in which Vimes asks himself, "Who watches the watchmen?" And his answer was: "Me." I also thought of a Robert Frost poem, Acquainted with the NightI have been one acquainted ( Read more... )

I woke up at seven this morning feeling rather ill, and realized that I wouldn't be able to go back to sleep any time soon. So saying that, I read fic for a while, then settled down and finished up the Logic homework I'd been glaring blearily at last night. Now I'm going to put some pants on and eventually go over to Deg campus center to a) get a ( Read more... )