Lately I've taken to surfing around Etsy trying to not let work drive me crazy in the few hours that I'm not there. It's led me to develop an interest in coloured gems (Diamonds are boring and as common as mud). Many mined gems are heat treated to improve their colour ( Read more... )

This is obviously going to come as a huge surprise to you, but I am, in fact your superior at work ( Read more... )

I don't mean cinnamon whiskey.

Has anyone heard of a beer keg generating a ball of fire. Not an explosion. Just a whoosh like you get when the bar-be-que has had the gas on too long before you light it.

Microsoft has patented 'smart' glasses that can detect and interpret human emotions ( Read more... )

My father sold his car this winter. He sold it with the snow tires on. The all season tires are in the shed in the backyard. The person he sold it to hasn't taken the all season, summer tires yet ( Read more... )

And now I am going to whine ( Read more... )

Moose gets police escort through Canadian city.

This is a good news story. It doesn't usually work out this well for the moose.

I could whine about work, but that's boring.

Taken from Linda Hoyland's LJ.

( So I'll whine about writing instead because that's so, well, also boring for everyone else but an amusing diversion for me. )

( Work related woes under the cut. )

AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!I will never be a manager. There are a number of reasons for this. I can’t organize my way out of a wet paper sack. (Although, as husband says, I can organize my way into it then thrash around weakly while bitterly complaining how I can’t make my way out. Thanks, dear, I love you, too ( Read more... )