Yay! Update frequency is on the rise. It's all because I decided I was getting a bit too lazy and started up one of my perpetual to-do lists ( Read more... )

Mixed feelings about the election Tuesday -- I was cautiously hopeful after Obama won, but finding out proposition 8 passed in California sort of deflated my sails quite a bit. Bah ( Read more... )

Apparently I feel that now the appropriate thing to stock up on in case of apocalypse is no longer frozen pizza, but yogurt. Not that I still don't have many frozen pizzas, but lately I've purchased five quarts of vanilla yogurt, one quart of kefir, and twenty 6 oz. cups of Rachel's yogurt in assorted exotic flavors. At least it's supposedly good ( Read more... )

I gets to see my sister before she becomes a Californian next week. I'm thinking at least a minimal amount of corruption with board and card games and cookies should happen before she and Joe have to vanish into the abyss of new work and new apartment and such. Thanks to one of the people I'm chatting with online, I've developed a huge craving ( Read more... )

I own lots of Settlers of Catan games... and there was much rejoicing ( Read more... )

Tired lately. It's getting hot here, and the air quality is getting bad, but I'm still riding my bike nightly and enjoying it, as long as I don't leave too late and put pressure on myself to ride quickly. But my car is "fixed" in that it started today and served to help me stock up on groceries I needed. Not sure if it was broken at all, might ( Read more... )

Sweet. I love it when money arrives in the mail just in time to "save" me from my own folly and/or laziness. In this case, I got reimbursed for my eye exam and glasses from the end of February, and got my dividend check within the space of a week, just after I received an email warning that my checking account had dropped below $100. I had ( Read more... )

You know, I have this urge to create a picture of real war kittens and make a credit card out of it. This despite the fact that I have no need for a second credit card. I'm thinking 400-ft tall cybernetically enhanced Tokyo-trampling kittens with laser vision and adamantium claws and enough residual cuteness to cause passing fighter pilots to ( Read more... )

Arrgh, back to the grind ( Read more... )

OK, one exhausting and overly warm run later... Yay! I won, so to speak. I finished my marathon in 3:28:06 in 80+ degree weather, despite a rather long period during the run where I came to my senses and thought it might feel nice to walk the remaining 9 miles. I mean, it really was a beautiful day to be in the particular canyon I was in, ( Read more... )