Tomorrow is my office secret Santa gift exchange. Have you seen that Apple commercial where one guy is a PC and the other guy is a Mac? They're exchanging Christmas gifts and the PC gives the Mac a lame C++ GUI programming guide. That totally happened to me last year. I got a C# programming reference guide. I'm sure one of the engineers at ( Read more... )

I love mornings like today. It's still early and quiet outside. The surf is really high. Even though I'm four blocks from the ocean, I can hear the crashing of the waves and smell the crisp salty air. I love the ocean. It reminds me how small we all are.

I've been awake since 4:00 a.m. My sleep schedule has been crazy since I returned from Europe. I'm exhausted by 8:00 p.m. -- usually because I wake up at 3:00 or 4:00. Now I'm sitting here doing nothing on Saturday morning. I hope to find some motivation in this cup of coffee I'm drinking. I have to go to the post office to mail Christmas ( Read more... )

Mad love to bearringsd and mikiedoggie and kingfuraday. Check out how my gays came to my defense when the hayseed called me an old maid. They'll tell me I'm fabulous no matter what anybody says. To quote Brian (after I told him that my niece Jessica would make an excellent fag hag, only she's living in middle America suburbia without a gay in sight), "Everyone needs a gay. ( Read more... )

I have a friend, Brett, from Mississippi. (No, not THAT Brett from Mississippi -- this one is a chef, not a football player.) Last night he had a few drinks and decided to call me. He couldn't reach me but did chat with my friend Deanna. He told her that I'm an old maid and that I need to stop traveling and settle down and find a man. Of ( Read more... )

Wow, I have been a LJ slacker lately. I haven't posted anything in...forever ( Read more... )

Wow, it's been a week since I posted anything ( Read more... )

I'm still rockin' my "I Love Lutefisk" icon. I really, really need this button ( Read more... )

Today I took a taxi to work and it cost me the equivalent of about $25. I don't feel a bit bad about wasting $25 when I could have taken the bus. I don't even care. I just wasn't feelin' the bus today ( Read more... )

I'm almost done with my work here in Norway -- only 7 more days. It's really dark here in the morning. It's 7:30 a.m. and it seems like it's midnight. I can't believe Christmas is in six weeks. I'm starting to see some Christmas decorations go up in the stores and restaurants. But it's not a full-on Christmas assault like you get in the U.S. ( Read more... )