Got in a car accident on 101 today. I'm fine, by the way, before I go into the details and freak anyone out. So is my dad. He didn't feel anything at all ( Read more... )

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A lot of places these days have automatic flushing toilets and/or automatic faucets in the sinks in public restrooms. The D concourse of the Salt Lake City International Airport has automatic soap dispensers. Which would be cool except that they dispense about 1/3 of the soap needed to actually wash your hands ( Read more... )

So I'm in Virginia, visiting my best friend Doodlebug, and her boyfriend, and her cats. It's real nice out here, warmer than it's been back in California, actually. They keep threatening to keep me out here cos I bring such good weather with me ( Read more... )

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Wendy's Founder Dave Thomas DeadI don't know quite why, but I always found his commercials vaguely comforting. I mean... it's not like they were always good commercials, and it's not like he was a particularly gifted actor... although being a "straight man" is a lot harder than it seems, so maybe he was actually pretty good after all. But there ( Read more... )

Some friends and I played a few games of pool while waiting to see a movie last night. My pool game, of late, has been seriously sucking it up. I know I'm pretty in-consistant anyway, but I'm not usually consistantly badMy Aikido Sensei used to say that every so often, a student would tend to go through a hard stage in training. Their technique ( Read more... )

So, in an moment of reletively rare self-reflection, a couple of things occured to me about this upcoming year ( Read more... )

For about, oh... 15 or 16 years now (ever since I was 12 or 13, I think), I've been cooking Christmas breakfast for my family and any relatives that happen to be present. I like cooking when I have the right tools and environment to work with... which is to say, generally speaking, when I'm not cooking at my house. Though, to be fair, the house ( Read more... )