I used to be a habitual jigsaw puzzler and I was thinking that I might want to get back into that again, so I've been browsing the interwebbernets to see what I could find. So far I've resisted the urge to purchase a 1,000 piece puzzle of Jesus carrying a lamb for the sheer amusement of owning such a thing. Then I happened upon another site and ( Read more... )

The Irony Report for January 10, 2008 ( Read more... )

I just got Journey's greatest hits and it suddenly occurs to me that I like Journey a lot more than I thought I did. A lot. I had a similar experience with Fleetwood Mac a few years ago. I love it when that happens ( Read more... )

For Baby Jesus' birthday, Brother Adam got me this sweet speaker system for my computer (which is also compatible with other devices). It has a subwoofer which is currently making my desk pulsate in an awesome manner. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that I'm listening to the The Eurythmics, I would say that my whole desk currently sounds like a ( Read more... )

I don't know what's wrong with me these days. I normally love me some Christmas music, but lately I just don't want to listen to any seasonal tunes. I'd normally blame the music system work, but the combination of my ears being blocked up and the fact that I live in the photo lab with a hella noisy Gretag minilab means that I never hear the store ( Read more... )

So cold. Furnace busted. Computing from bed, under many blankets. Thank the Baby Jeebus for the Lappy. Oil company dude just arrived. Should have heat again soon. Hate winter. This must be what those people in the Joe Kennedy commercials feel like. If I were rich, I'd totally give them lots of money. Hate winter. Hate, hate, hate winter!

Seriously, it's not truly the holiday season in Providence until This Guy makes his first appearance at the intersection of Westminster and Dorrance Streets.

No, he's not some random weirdo...the city arranges for him to be there.

I find that as one ages, the fact of one's clumsiness becomes less and less of a source of amusement. I almost died in the bathroom this afternoon. For reals, yo ( Read more... )

I am such an old lady. I just washed a pair of pants that had a paper napkin in one of the pockets and now there are napkin particles all over my work shirts. Perhaps I could have checked the pockets first, but it's rare that I should have something like that in my pockets in the first place. I don't hold onto paper goods like a certain portion of ( Read more... )

I used to have these two bookends: a light calico kitty and a dark calico kitty. The latter had to leave us a few years ago. Cancer sucks. The former decided that Saturday night was her time to go and she died in my arms at about 9:30pm, not long after I got home from work. It's okay, she was about sixteen years old and we were pretty much ( Read more... )