Check it out!  BBC America is going to air the Doctor Who Christmas Special on Christmas Day!  Hip hip hurray!!!

My stats say that if I continue in my current breakneak pace, I will finish on Christmas.  :(

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

I am giving it a try this year.  The first two days went fairly well, considering how rusty I am.  Today -- nada.  Tomorrow will be better

Come on, people, obey the rules.  Proper punctuation is what separates us from the apes.

http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/

At some point I really do intend to wax poetic on the reason I changed the name of my blog, but not today.

Today I am writing about rampant thievery.

Three years ago our Discover Card number was stolen and used by Nigerian hustlers to rip people off on Craig's List and to charge around $20,000 in shipping charges.  The wonderful people at Discover ( Read more... )

Our current stereo is one of those bookshelf deals, with the receiver, cassette, and CD player all fused together, with an additional turntable component.  The CD has been broken for some time and we decided that today, as an anniversary present, we would replace it.  We have some very nice Bose speakers that we haven't been using, so we were open ( Read more... )

Today at work a patient told me I reminded her of Penelope Garcia (played by Kirsten Vangsness) from Criminal Minds.   She prefaced this with "Don't take this the wrong way," as if I didn't know I was chubby, with bright red hair, a shiny green headband, big blue and green earrings, blue and black glasses, and wearing a funky white, blue, and green ( Read more... )

1.  Mano a mano means "hand to hand" in Spanish.  It DOES NOT mean "man to man."

2.  Vs. stands for versus, not verse.  It's two syllables.  Use it.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-martin-gardner-20100526,0,7177976.story

I don't know about all the math stuff, but his annotated Alice in Wonderland books are fabulous.

Heavy sigh.  I had one leg shaved in the process of getting ready for my hair appointment this morning when a migraine struck.  So instead of getting beautiful, I spent the morning in bed with my phone, listening to knitting podcasts on my lovely iPod, Griffin my faithful terrier, and Trixiebelle my cat, who hates to see anyone in bed without her.

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