When people like Kim Deal start showing up on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!, certain little lights and buzzers start going off in one's head. The lights and buzzers clustered around the part of the console labeled "approaching middle age."

Weekend update (I didn't do much other than buy an iPod touch and re-read Brave New World which was quite the ( Read more... )

Good! The weather is gorgeous and cool and a bit rainy and it's nice having all the windows open.

Bad! The cat pissed on the bed again this morning. What the heck, cat? Next: Deploy emergency backup litterbox.

Every summer I am reminded anew how awesome thunderstorms are from the ninth floor ( Read more... )

Yesterday we set records for low temperature and rainfall amounts.

Whee.

Today it is far, far easier to believe it is May. Conveniently, today is the day I have to drive to client sites. I? Am occasionally a smart cookie.

And by "extremes" I mean "extremes of weather." Friday and Saturday featured the most delectable kind of spring days, the ones with very warm temperatures but perfectly comfortable humidity levels...they get you longing for full summer, while conveniently letting you forget the more disgusting parts of the summer heat. Then yesterday the weather ( Read more... )

It is not a cure-all by any means, but it turns out that having ice cream for dinner actually does do a bit of soothing for a downtrodden heart. Diabetes, schmiabetes, apparently.

Now to conduct studies on how difficult it is to stay chained to one's desk on a gorgeous, sunny, 80-degree Friday. My hypothesis: very difficult. Let's see if the ( Read more... )

It was a weird weekend, people. Up-before-8 a.m.-each-day weird.

( After that tantalizing start, how can you not click through?! )

Seriously. February. So done with you. Yes, yes, I know - one more day. And a Friday, to boot, which is nice ( Read more... )

Well, I don't know what they were thinking talking about 4-5 inches of snow yesterday morning, but they were completely wrong. Sure they changed the forecast, but dangit...ah well. At least the drive in had no issues whatsoever. Apparently the icing may be more of a problem later in the day, though ( Read more... )

Turns out I only had three episodes left of Season 3 of The Wire. I finished up around 10:30 last night (being far too distracted to even look outside to see if the eclipse was visible).

Damn. I mean, whew.

Already have the first disk of season 4 from Netflix, but tonight will be Supernatural and Lost. I need some fluff ( Read more... )