People chide me for being paranoid. But I have good reason, real good reason. On Day 1 of the trip, my financial net gets pulled out from beneath me - elevating my already heightened stress levels to crisis levels ( Read more... )

- Trip nearly ended before it began. After driving 10 hrs. yesterday, we stopped at a Day's Inn at the border of Missouri & Oklahoma. It was only $65, so I thought nothing of it. My Chase Visa, which I've been meticulously maintaining by paying 3X the minimum balance and making sure I had at least half the credit line available for the trip - GOT ( Read more... )

Yeah, I know. I’m an bad, bad Ljer. I cheat over at twitter on a way more than regular basis. The big hook for me is the fact that my twittering is about a zillion times easier on my shitty excuse for a phone. 140 characters I can type out in a jiffy pretty much anywhere, even on my microscopic QWERTY keyboard and then my little missive is out ( Read more... )

BEST! TERMINATOR! EVAH ( Read more... )

Just archiving some of my Trek snark from elsewhere on the "webbiscape" on this, the first official day of memory-wipe "Dawson's Trek." If Trek offends, by all means drive on by ( Read more... )

So I caved and got myself a twitter account; even though I absolutely loathe opening new accounts on new-fangled web doo-hickeys ( Read more... )

Probably less than a minute after the second round of the fanclub presale started this morning, I had 4 seats in my grubby little paws for the Chicago Soldier Field opening date of the U2-360 tour. Granted, they're nosebleeds; but I had to make certain concessions ( Read more... )

If you ever really loved me, internets, you would already have sent me working links to the new album.

*pout*

Let me climb down off the ever-hurtling stress-train that is my January (as in "bullet" and not "choo-choo") to do a little "told you so" shuffle ( Read more... )

Weekend, you have defeated me.

After some toxic foodborne stomach ailment kept both John and myself up half the night last night with various, hugely mortifying bathroom "issues," we reluctantly decided to can our long-planned rendezvous with all things dusty, plastic and action figure-esque at the Kane County Toy Show this morning. I know, I ( Read more... )