Bit of a thing coming into work this morning... Writing it down now because no one took my statement, and records are a good thing (thanks, Dad, for that life lesson ( Read more... )

My best friend and her husband visited me this weekend, which was awesome! It's the first time they've seen my house ( Read more... )

Something about my mother that frustrates the hell out of me is that she doesn't get things done. She knows that X or Y needs doing, and perhaps needs doing NOW, before some time limit runs out, and yet she doesn't do it ( Read more... )

Here's a perfect example of the sort of thing that could slip through and embarrass a publishing house ( Read more... )

Dear Self,

You are an idiot.

Love,

Me

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How am I an idiot? Let me count the ways...

It was foolish enough to think about moving my olde skool, 15-year-old, 21" CRT at all with the shape my back is in.* To do it with the cat in the room was...well, let's just say that the results were predictable. All cats have an instinct to be in ( Read more... )

Dear back-brain,

You can quit dishing up freaky dreams now, please. I don't know where you got that one where I'm wearing three-legged, alien lederhosen, but really, that's too much. I think I would rather have an honest serial-killer-is-after-me nightmare.

No love,

The conscious part of the brain

One trait of geeks is our ability to earworm quotes. hominysnark even does a daily "identify the movie quote" contest ( Read more... )

I was typing up printer specs for a book just now, and I had to type the following (in three different form fields):

S5 satin silver or similar
snug
CMYK (<--which is pronounced see-em-why-kay ( Read more... )

Five hours ago I drank two very large mugs of tea because I had a lot of work to do. Why hello, wee hours of the morning ( Read more... )

I have joined Twitter. I have no idea how it works, but on there I am ( Read more... )