Ha! Just kidding about the volcano insurance. I'm not getting any ( Read more... )

In Spanish class we recently learned a little bit about the Day of the Dead holiday. This is where on November 1 and 2 you honor your dead relatives. The fictional family we learn about while watching our educational TV show has a tradition of serving favorite foods of these dead relatives ( Read more... )

I was just telling someone that our only discount theatre was in Round Rock. Wrong! There's also Southwest Theaters, which I learned about from Austinite Tips.

In spite of the name, it's in far northwest Austin and there's only one location: the old Lake Creek Alamo ( Read more... )

Six meetings this week.
Each one better than the last.
Worst one now over.

(That's calming and soothing just like a real haiku, right?)

Pun of the Day - From our Spanish teacher's extremely pregnant daughter - "Mom, the baby wants to come out, but she's not making any headway."

Cartoon of the Day - XKCD's Future Self - I really admire good ( Read more... )

I like the idea of posting daily. But I don't want to talk here about my work frustrations, which today lasted from 7 am to 6:20 pm ( Read more... )

At craft night I learned that micro-inverters let you install a solar panel system where when one panel is shaded it does not reduce the effectiveness of the other panels. This changes everything ( Read more... )

Today I enjoyed Messy Breakups with Exercise, which is not about exercising your way out of a breakup but about people telling other people they should exercise and about people lying about exercise and weight loss: "We are told that exercise will lead to weight loss when the research suggests no such thing." It's a fun rant ( Read more... )

I have a bunch of things I want to share today, which means I need to make an entry ( Read more... )

I'm a little jealous--I mean admiring--of my friend P_J_Cleary who updates here daily. So what's up with me ( Read more... )

Last weekend we went out of town to help one of Robin's friends celebrate his 50th birthday. One of the activities was a cross between whiffle ball and bumper cars. You steer with one hand while holding a spatula-like scoop with the other hand, and there are eight of you against eight of them with the goal of flinging a plastic ball at something ( Read more... )