i had an interesting experience today when kathy and i were eating out at a pizzeria. i had this feeling come over me and asked "what is life?" she asked what i meant and i said "what are we supposed to do?" she understandably looked at me unsure. i explained i wasn't a fatalist, i don't believe there's something we're "supposed" to do. but shouldn ( Read more... )

i play poker for a living now. started a couple years ago. i don't make superstar money or anything, but i get by. my bankroll's consistently been going up since i started and my return on investment hovers between 10 to 15%, which is respectable, so i'm doing pretty good. BUT... i'm in the worst downturn of my career right now. i'm getting bad ( Read more... )

my sister and her wife have arranged it so that kathy and i, and them, and my mom are going to san diego for my birthday. it's going to be one of those relaxing vacations. not the running here and there, doing this and that, but just mostly the ocean and restaurants. and the ocean. also, the ocean. i saved a jelly fish on the atlantic coast, i'm ( Read more... )

kathy's been the victim of identity theft which is a real pain in the ass. she found out about it cause her bank (Chase, which has sucked balls through all of this) told her tht they were going to be closing her account because she had overdraft fees in a bank account that isn't hers in another state. apparently, someone took her social security ( Read more... )

kathy goes to her first appointment with health insurance today. she grew up without it and hasn't had it much at jobs. it makes me feel more comfortable knowing she has it. it's been an ordeal. it was supposed to be implemented after she got hired back in July or August. then it was the first of the year. now here it is february and finally her ( Read more... )

kind of like the cold war but with more sodomy.

me and someone at the library are having a hold war with Waldrop's Complexity. i'll check it out, get 100 pages in, then he'll place a hold and i'll have to give it back. then i'll place a hold and get it back, then he will, then i will. i can't get too mad though since i had the book checked out for ( Read more... )

I'm reading Mitchell M. Waldrop's Complexity, and it's a pretty good read so far. It's about complex adaptive systems, which in layman's terms is kind of like studying the phenomenon when the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. you have a bunch of automata that when given a couple of degrees of freedom to interact with each other, do so in ( Read more... )

We have a shiteload of pictures from Kathy's digicam from when I went to "get" her in Florida. Here's a couple I like, cause she's so cuuuuuuute.

( you and me and everyone we know )

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My internet is conking out, so I'm outee for a little while. Maybe days, maybe months. Sorry for the short notice, but I only have minutes or seconds before it crashes for good.

Take care all,

dann