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What's up?
I was away all weekend and I am not even going to try to catch up on LJ - so if you have been up to anything interesting, let me know!
I was at Sock Summit in Portland Oregon, hanging out with some awesome friends. -
so, what about those books?
I have gotten very far behind on my book reviews! So, in the interest of catching up, I'm giving up on a bunch of them. I'm going to post a list of everything I've read since then, and follow up with a few reviews to highlight the ones I liked best.
( 35 books, 9955 pages ) -
Temperature Update
Outside in the shade: 101.5
Indoors, also in the shade: 85.5
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/51988007.html
"on July 29, 2009, Sea-Tac Airport hit 103 degrees just after 3:30 p.m. for the hottest day on record in Seattle" -
I want my summer back.
High temperatures for:
today - 93
tomorrow - 95
Wednesday - 99
Thursday - 95
Friday - 86
Saturday - 85
About half an hour after I got home from work today, it was 91.2 degrees outside in the shade and 81.6 degrees inside. Not exactly my preference. I live in this area for a reason, people!
Here is an interesting article about the temperature ( Read more... ) -
Tree branch
There's a large bush/small tree outside the window with a branch that's just a bit too long. It keeps scraping across the window and scaring the daylights out of me! -
Weather Weirdness
I just noticed that it was actually quite sunny out and thought I might go out to the pool for awhile. Right before I was going to go, though, I heard great big rolling booms that I would have said were thunder except a) it hardly ever thunders here and b) it's sunny. So I stuck my head outside to see what was up and discovered a great big mass of ( Read more... ) -
Bone Marrow Donation
From June 8 - 22, the National Marrow Donor Program is offering free registry to the first 46,000 people who sign up to join the registry ( Read more... ) -
Just for Lindsey (and Curt)
So I have this awesome friend linzbinz, and she grew up near where I live now. Problem is, for awhile I lived in the UK and she lived here. Then, when I moved here, she moved to the UK ( Read more... )