That's a long time. A lot has happened in 88 weeks.

But in short, life is good.

But I've been doing it most of this week, and rather enjoying it...and now that I'm back in the land of the internet (been cat/dog/housesitting the past week), it should get even easier. It's fun -- you should try it. Guess where the weekend is (if you're viewing this anytime soon).


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Which I just learned about!

There won't be another total eclipse of the moon (don't sing it!) until 2010, so go check out tonight's if you can. There is also going to be some star and Saturn hanging around it, which is apparently stunningly rare, and won't happen again this millennium. So you'll probably be dead for the next one.

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So the first phase of my move to Portland is complete.

Which is pretty trippy.

God. Damn. Bursting into flames. Burner ( Read more... )

Madeleine L'Engle died. I don't remember the last time I was this sad about the death of an author -- especially not one whose works I haven't read in years.

What a damn cool lady.

Maybe if I start writing oddball little posts, I can trick myself into informing my Internet Friends what is going on in my life in a serious way! Because these Serious Things, they are not lacking by any means. But that'll come later ( Read more... )

On Monday afternoon, I suavely got up to go deal with the Internet Box From Hades, and promply emptied I-don't-know-how-much water onto my keyboard, where it proceeded to fly all over and seep through the keyboard, a speaker (well it came out of there later so I'm guessing it went in), and god knows where else. I did as best I could in a short ( Read more... )

please someone tell me why I didn't do this a hell of a long time ago ( Read more... )

In case you live in the US or Canada, and you would like to call yo mama on Mother's Day (or, well, anyone else), calls to anywhere will be free from Skype. Yeah, free. Yeah, anywhere (okay, well not "premium numbers" [??] or satellite phones, but landline and mobile phones are valid). I had to check Google's cache for the details, since Skype is ( Read more... )