I stayed home yesterday feeling gross. I chalked it up to not sleeping well the night before and getting up at 6:30, but I slept through last night, slept until my alarm went off this morning, and still feel kind of bad. But I'm functional, and I don't think it's anything serious, so I'll ride it out with pain reliever and caffeine ( Read more... )

Our camping plans were scuttled by Dr. B's aching back, so we grilled out with our fellow non-campers Saturday night. After an afternoon of house cleaning, I killed a huge bottle of cheap wine and made vegetable kebabs with these circular skewers (I got them much cheaper than the site lists them for, thanks Kroger). A friend brought over her dog, a ( Read more... )

Evening braindump from my pretty little tweet machine.

• 07:49 My calves are a little sore this morning from stairs yesterday. I imagine stairs today are going to suck a lot. #
• 10:00 Fake product: Golden Shower Ale! YouTube fauxmercial: bit.ly/P9m6G #
• 10:51 Don't you remember when we built this city? We built this city on rock 'n' roll... #
• 11:33 1/ ( Read more... )

Ok, I'm about 99% sure that my back/ab pain was kidneystones. Whee. I was reading a Science Daily article this morning about the increase in kidneystone diagnosis frequency in young children and how they're projected to afflict more people in the future. The symptoms described match mine perfectly. One of the causes completely surprised me: in ( Read more... )

Evening braindump from my pretty little tweet machine.

• 10:31 I posit the following types of days as those unfit for working: overcast, sunny, cold, rainy, gorgeous, too hot, temperate, Tuesdays. #
• 11:12 Damn. Writers at The Frisky are really bitter about the writers at Jezebel. See: every bitchy article they write about Jezebel writers. #
• 11:14 ( Read more... )

Evening braindump from my pretty little tweet machine.

• 07:42 I slept well last night! I'd like to thank the academy, two beagles, and the hardest-working Xbox and AYBS DVD in recorded history. #
• 10:07 Baker's Banter recipes for cupcake-sized cheesecakes: blog.kingarthurflour.com/2009/04/24/mjs-moms-cheesecake-tiny-and-terrific/ #
• 12:33 #ffxi Ula ( Read more... )

Evening braindump from my pretty little tweet machine.

• 00:48 Yeah. Hard to fall asleep tonight. I'll be over it soon, I suppose. Getting there sucks. #
• 03:40 Hello, 3:30am. You look awfully familiar. #
• 10:26 All recent Thursdays have been complete disappointments. Thor, you have let me down again. Worst Norse mythological character ever. #
• 11:54 ( Read more... )

Evening braindump from my pretty little tweet machine.

• 01:16 I am having one of them thar super fun weekends. #
• 18:47 Lazy, lazy Sunday. #
• 22:14 Solution to produce going bad before I eat it: frozen fruit. Slightly icy blueberries are so awesome. #

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Evening braindump from my pretty little tweet machine.

• 08:10 For good or ill, my tweets ain't shipping to my blog. #
• 10:56 Song of the day: Futurama's bureaucrat song. tinyurl.com/7xb2rh #
• 12:01 My hands are very cold. Also, Schlotsky's needs to use about 3 pints less grease per meal. #
• 14:12 Bored now. #
• 16:12 RT from Diabola: tinyurl.com/dmkb7s ( Read more... )

Hmm. There seems to be less to talk about than normal! Oh well ( Read more... )