After a ridiculously cold and gloomy spring, summer is finally here!  Last week this time it was 68 degrees and raining.  Right now it's 92 degrees and sunny.  We're supposed to top out close to 100 today, and tomorrow it's supposed to be 95!  Despite losing sleep because I'm not just adapted to sleeping without a heavy heap of blankets on top of ( Read more... )

I just spent $30 on my special all-day-no-really-all-day-waterproof-sensitive-skin sunblock.  I just spent more on sunblock than I would on my average Cincinnati sundress.  It seems ridiculous every year when I buy it, but by the second week of Cincinnati, I'll be so happy to have it.

How strange that our Cincinnati trip is only 6 weeks away!  It ( Read more... )

I'm still writing "The Losers" fanfiction like a mad woman, but I've decided to spare my non-Losers-addicted friends list and I'm just posting it over at losers_fic.  So if you want to read it, you can hop over there.  This is easily the most prolific I've been in a while.  It's nice.

At work, one week from today, I get to go back to my old unit, and the ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back from Cincinnati.  I spent most of the day puttering around my house, being anti-social and pouty.  Coming home wasn't as bad as previous years, partly because my new apartment is still pretty and new and makes me happy.  (And it smelled strangely of cookies when I first came home - not sure I want to know why.)

All in all, we had a ( Read more... )

Yay!  I finally found someone to buy my tickets to the women's tournament!  (Again.)  She sounds like one of those women we generally avoid talking to, but she was nice enough on the phone, and I'm much less worried that she's going to bail.  Plus, she lives about ten minutes from the tournament grounds, so it will be super easy to meet up with her ( Read more... )

Our tickets for Cincinnati arrived yesterday.  Usually, this is the cause for much celebration and woo-hooing and jumping around.  This year, not so much.  First, I had to look at the women's tickets, a reminder that they've ruined our perfectly good tournament.  Then, in that same vein, I sent off an email to the man who had agreed to buy our ( Read more... )

We bought our tickets to Cincinnati last night, even though neither of us have gotten the official okay from our employers to take the time off.  Why so early?  Because I looked up the flight prices on a whim, and they were LESS THAN HALF what they were last year.  I have no idea why.  Last year we actually flew into Dayton to save money (and hated ( Read more... )

Usually, the arrival of my Cincinnati ticket renewal packet is marked by a giddy nonsensical post, but alas, not this year.

You see, for years now they’ve been threatening to combine the awesome spectacle that is the men’s event with the half-hearted flop that is the women’s event. Last year, we learned that the process will begin by merely running ( Read more... )

More highlights from this year's trip.  I won't have photos before this weekend, so I'll upload and post some videos in the next few days to kill the time.

Also, I found myself randomly inspired to write another Torchwood fic.  In the middle of the tennis season, fresh back from Ohio, and I'm thinking about Torchwood.  (It may be because I just saw ( Read more... )

Since the reports were very time consuming and as a result rarely got finished, this year I bring you only highlights. Hopefully you will still find them entertaining. There will be photos and videos as well, but not for a while longer.

The Dayton airport is small compared to the Portland airport, and miniscule compared to the Cincinnati airport.  ( Read more... )